Author Archives: Anton

life, art, not entirely disjoint

Posted on Saturday, 2006 October 14 by Anton

This morning in Berkeley I saw a Smith College sweatshirt whose wearer could have stepped out of Questionable Content.

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a life less simple

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 October 11 by Anton

The looming prospect of liquidity raises new questions, like: How soon does a flat monitor pay for itself in power? Are the cameras built into telephones any good, and do they interface easily with a Mac?

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movies recently rented

Posted on Saturday, 2006 October 07 by Anton

In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks, 1967). Didn’t grab me; perhaps another time. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (dir. Stanley Kramer). In 1967 I suppose the subject matter was enough to carry it, but now the script is rather thin. … Continue reading →

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something has turned up

Posted on Saturday, 2006 September 30 by Anton

It’s a far cry from the career I imagined at age 20, and it’s not even as lucrative as the somewhat similar job that suddenly evaporated five years ago; but it is one heck (I might even say two hecks) … Continue reading →

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not all bad

Posted on Friday, 2006 September 29 by Anton

In a comment at FuturePundit, Steven Horrobin chides me for supposing — though all I said was that I hadn’t yet seen a counterexample — that all bioethicists are anti-life.

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a metaphoric diode?

Posted on Tuesday, 2006 September 26 by Anton

In Ranma ½, Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, Abstract Gender and Misfile, a boy finds himself magically transformed into a girl. In both The Wotch and El Goonish Shive, the cast includes a boy who sometimes becomes a girl for a … Continue reading →