Author Archives: Anton

another one for Perry?

How many MacOS experts read this? When I launch Grapher, I get a Warning: Font Conflict Several characters (Greek letters, e.g.) cannot be displayed correctly because of a conflict between the installed fonts. If you are using MathType, please make … Continue reading

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a surprising choice of medium

Chris Bliss interprets the Abbey Road suite . . in juggling. It’s awesome. (bigger version, 27MB) See also the Chris Bliss Diss, in which Jason Garfield does a very similar routine with five balls to Bliss’s three (and some added … Continue reading

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if it takes one to know one — one what?

Something Positive has a curious attitude toward our undead neighbors.

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the key works if you twist the doorknob a bit

The website that hosts The Libertarian Enterprise changed domains some time ago, but it took me this long to notice how it changed; one isn’t always paying attention to such things. The old domain is www.ncc-1776.com, the new is www.ncc-1776.org; … Continue reading

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bohemian robots in spaaace!

Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life is “a philosophical road comic about two unemployed robots on an improvised interplanetary voyage of self discovery.” Understatedly fantastic.

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did you bring enough to share?

In the old Bill Cosby Show, Chet Kincaid was a PE teacher who, in one memorable episode, substituted for an algebra teacher. (Come to think of it, that episode was probably my first exposure to algebra!) Does anyone remember the … Continue reading

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open season

Lately the attempts to spam this blog come disproportionately as comments on posts in the spam category. Hm. Just for laughs, I’ll approve all comments on this one.

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