Author Archives: Anton

don’t trust the clock

Posted on Wednesday, 2010 June 16 by Anton

I just noticed that, in the time shown for posts and comments, the month-number appears in place of the minutes. From the format settings it seems to be a WordPress bug. It’s not the host or PHP, because in WordPress … Continue reading →

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with friends like these

Posted on Wednesday, 2010 June 16 by Anton

[an old schoolmate who lives in Ghana] suggests you add Volkswagen Ghana as a friend on Facebook.

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here kitty kitty

Posted on Wednesday, 2010 June 16 by Anton

Pillow has been missing for twelve days. *snif* I wish I’d asked the vet to check his chip, when he was in for a shot last month. …

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heraldic heresy

Posted on Wednesday, 2010 June 16 by Anton

I happened to see a “demo” in a park by a branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism. (A “demo” is a small event designed to get public attention, as opposed to one where everyone present is expected to dress … Continue reading →

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where the skies are cloudy all day

Posted on Friday, 2010 May 28 by Anton

My sky has been heavily overcast for days. This impairs my sense of the hours, and sometimes makes me feel dopey.

Posted in Cascadia, me!me!me! | 2 Comments

tree dandruff

Posted on Monday, 2010 May 17 by Anton

The cottonwoods are heavily shedding what look like very late snowflakes. The first distinctive feature I’ve noticed in the local dialect is a habit, among some people in retail (and the like), of responding to every datum with “Perfect.” Are … Continue reading →

Posted in Cascadia | 2 Comments

lapse

Posted on Friday, 2010 May 14 by Anton

I couldn’t write here for a while because my webhost’s firewall blocked my IP. Did anyone notice? I must have done something suspicious, perhaps my attempt to change a file’s permissions using FTP. (One of my mathematical pictures returns 403 … Continue reading →

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