Author Archives: Anton

unseemly small world

Posted on Monday, 2007 June 18 by Anton

I got a spam for Viagra entitled unseemly nation, and 4 minutes later a Korean spam entitled RE: unseemly tomato.

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time flows differently in the funnies (except Gasoline Alley and For Better or For Worse) how to argue with a libertarian (Degrees of Freedom) arguments against state support for schools, including some that I had not encountered before

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Takana

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 17 by Anton

I had the idea to design a fantasy script from combinations of a small repertoire of features: namely, subsets of this set of twelve segments. Using a fixed number of segments gives some built-in error-detection. There are 924 subsets of … Continue reading →

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the trouble with imported cars

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 10 by Anton

Amara Graps writes: “Not being a blogger, myself, I’m seeing if the bloggers I know want to pick up this story I wrote.” What happened to Bush’s Cadillac 1? As recorded by a viewer of the motorcade and posted to … Continue reading →

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four million colors

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 10 by Anton

You may know from The Art of Computer Programming §4.1 (citing W. Penney, 1965) that, just as any positive real number can be represented by a bit string in base 2, any complex number can be represented by a bit … Continue reading →

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still dangerous

Posted on Saturday, 2007 June 09 by Anton

I took Dad to the target range today. I hadn’t shot in three years, nor he in seven. He, using my .22, was pleased enough with his shooting to take his target home. With my .40, I did better than … Continue reading →

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Foundation and Spam

Posted on Thursday, 2007 June 07 by Anton

Got a spam today from someone who evidently used Asimov to feed the gibberish-generator: Well, are implicated. When I’m most difficult to the regent, the nervous high priest in this tendency reached was up are Now? Hardin jump; remained silent … Continue reading →

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