Author Archives: Anton

in black and white, and blue

Posted on Thursday, 2010 March 04 by Anton

Gotta agree with Greg Egan: Sometime in the next twenty years or so, the technology that enabled Avatar will become cheap enough to risk employing alongside a moderately intelligent script. It is mighty pretty, though. Among the details, I particularly … Continue reading →

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it’s amazing that I escaped this long

Posted on Saturday, 2010 February 20 by Anton

I have my first grey whisker.

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one wishes one were in a position to help

Posted on Monday, 2010 February 01 by Anton

Gary Farber, who has occasionally commented / linked / been mentioned here, is in a bad way.

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don’t go away, Mads

Posted on Sunday, 2010 January 31 by Anton

MMK where are you? Not a peep since October.

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if MCE were alive

Posted on Friday, 2010 January 29 by Anton

My strip representation of the hyperbolic plane inspired Vladimir Bulatov to explore weirder conformal mappings thereof. (Conformal means angles are preserved.)

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more flickering images

Posted on Saturday, 2010 January 02 by Anton

What have I watched lately … The Lives of Others (2006). Liked it. The Philadelphia Story (1940). Didn’t like it as much the second time. Second Chorus (1940) – Astaire without Rogers. Forgettable. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). … Continue reading →

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in memory

Posted on Tuesday, 2009 December 29 by Anton

Dan Alderson once made a map of nearby stars by mounting little colored spheres on threads strung between holes in two sheets of heavy clear plastic. It occurs to me that, taking the stars in pairs, he could use half … Continue reading →

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