Author Archives: Anton

not from the inside

Mike Linksvayer has “One question for temporary dictator applicants”: What will you do to reduce the power of the presidency? Mike admits, I’m afraid I’d have a hard time providing a specific non-lame (and not pie-in-the-sky) answer myself, but what … Continue reading

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awww!

I was awakened by a voice: “How cute!” I opened my eyes to find the Little Demon perching on my chest.

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the honorable hippie from Texas

Sunday I saw some Ron Paul banners on overpasses in Santa Clara County, one of which read Ron Paul REVOLUTION — where the letters EVOL were really LOVE backward and slightly misaligned to make the point, whatever it is, more … Continue reading

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the flickering image

Bela Lugosi was more interesting in a supporting role in The Black Camel (Warner Oland’s second Charlie Chan picture) than in Dracula, made the same year. Also recently watched: the first disc of season 10 of South Park. The first … Continue reading

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spam trends

For a while there, nearly all the comments submitted to this blog linked to files in an obscure directory on a minor university’s server, which in turn redirected to a porn site. After I reported it to the webmasters of … Continue reading

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C(52,5)

Played poker last night – for the second time in my life, if I haven’t miscounted – with some Stanfordites; I think I was the only one there over thirty. Won $2.50.

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what’s it called again?

I’m watching Dexter. In a flashback, teen Dexter says, “Jesus, Dad, it’s called being on time, did you ever hear of it?” The actors playing Dexter in the present and in the past were born in 1971 and 1987, so … Continue reading

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