Author Archives: Anton

the 13th biggest fish in a small lagoon

What d’ya know — this is allegedly the 13th most popular website in .nu. How they work that out I have no idea.

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could be worse

A comfy chair, a blue sky, a mild breeze, the season’s first watermelon . . . .

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without questions there can be no answers

Is there a standard Unix shell command to pause for a given amount of time? One wouldn’t use this from the prompt, of course, but it might have its uses in scripts. Mine is to open a large number of … Continue reading

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who’s ringing my doorbell at this hour?

Yester evening a neighbor’s car engine caught fire, and I gave him my extinguisher. Just now he came by to replace it.

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where was Waterloo?

I have twice raised the question: “In what country was the battle of Waterloo fought?” Waterloo is now in Belgium, but that state was created fifteen years later. Well, I finally bothered to go looking for an answer to the … Continue reading

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hypothesis

Somewhere in MS Word’s infinitely deep dialog boxes there must be a checkbox whose default setting is Do what I explicitly asked you not to do.

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data integrity

It appears that I precipitated the exposure of a multiple hoaxer on Wikipedia. In Line of succession to the British Throne I noticed that “The Earl of Amersham” had been inserted and, four minutes later, removed. Curious, I looked up … Continue reading

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