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Author Archives: Anton
spam dialect
Who writes this stuff? A venerable insurance company within the underlying market of operation, is proud to announce yet another feasible entry for uprising accounting adepts. Comfort working environment will most definitely justify the necessity to excel in the vast … Continue reading
readme
I’ve redone this site’s front page to include an appeal for help in finding work, and incidentally to remove some clutter.
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unexpected aspects of asymmetry
My left arm is very sore today, making me notice how many little things I habitually do with my ‘wrong’ hand. I wonder whether this says something about my brain. They say women’s hemispheres are less specialized; maybe my partial … Continue reading
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whether ’tis nobler in the mind to doubly miss the point
A little incident in folk grammar, funny to me at least. I wrote a sentence containing . . . which led to reconstructing in my mind . . . because . . . which led to mentally reconstructing . . . seemed wrong: everyone knows you don’t put … Continue reading
Incandescence
Greg Egan complains about sloppy reviews of his latest novel: About half the reviews of Incandescence made at least one of the following false assertions: The Splinter orbits a neutron star. Rakesh visits the Splinter. The relationship between the novel’s … Continue reading
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de-skinned
April 9 is CSS Naked Day, a concept amusing enough that I installed the WordPress plugin to comply with it. As I should have expected, it makes this blog rather less readable than it was before I converted from Blogger … Continue reading
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deathist movie
In Renaissance (2006) there’s a Big Sinister Corporation whose advertising tagline is “Health, Beauty, Longevity.” Oo, scary! I don’t think we’re ever told what Avalon sells (vitamins? cosmetics? medical treatment?) but it doesn’t matter. The noirish visual style suffices to … Continue reading
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