Author Archives: Anton

nothing’s perfect

Posted on Sunday, 2006 May 07 by Anton

Since moving back to MacOS from Red Hat, I do miss a few features: ability to resize a window by dragging any edge, not only the bottom right corner ability to send the current window to the back with a … Continue reading →

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when grown-ups play with blocks

Posted on Sunday, 2006 May 07 by Anton

I’ve redone the Wikipedia page on convex uniform tilings of Euclidean 3-space. It occurs to me that one could enumerate the convex uniform tilings of flat, spherical and hyperbolic 3-spaces by an approach similar to what I’ve used to find … Continue reading →

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wandering the web

Posted on Saturday, 2006 May 06 by Anton

Gunnerkrigg Court, a newish cartoon-strip set in a decidedly weird boarding school. This is too good to leave buried in the comments: Loituma perform “Ievan polkka” Sheldon Richman: Capitalism vs Capitalism Something Positive: It’s entirely possible that you’ll appreciate this … Continue reading →

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how’s your German?

Posted on Saturday, 2006 April 29 by Anton

I’d love to have an English translation of the German comments in fullgen.c, a program that counts the polyhedra that can be made of pentagons and hexagons (i.e. fullerenes), so that I can modify it. (None of the output modes … Continue reading →

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hubris

Posted on Friday, 2006 April 28 by Anton

On June 29, 2005, a redesigned Freedom Tower was released, addressing security concerns raised about the original design. The new design retains essential elements of the original — soaring 1,776 feet into the sky, its illuminated spire evoking the Statue … Continue reading →

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do you speak Polish?

Posted on Friday, 2006 April 28 by Anton

One of my images is being used as a background on Allegro, which looks like a Polish cousin of eBay. It would please me if someone were to tell the seller that I’m a bit peeved. One of these days … Continue reading →

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winch gargoyle

Posted on Friday, 2006 April 28 by Anton

The above is the title of a (suspected) spam caught today by Pobox’s filter. I’m almost tempted to find out what the content could be. In other news, I was passed on the highway by a sport Audi moving at … Continue reading →

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