Author Archives: Anton

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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ski Milpitas

The peaks near Lick Observatory have snow, a rarity. I can see one from home. Alas that Lick’s webcams are dead.

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you got to have a dream

Pillow has a new ambition: to liberate the thick white string that crosses the space between two bookcases — i.e. my Ethernet line.

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local knowledge

I saw a poster advertising Clorox products with a picture of a child and a caption something like Let’s hope they catch more fireflies than flu bugs. Which is a pretty farfetched thing to hope for, anywhere within a thousand … Continue reading

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heretic at large?

Rumor has it that Placer County’s jailers refused to hold Steve Kubby. If so, let’s hope they escape prosecution.

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life imitates art

In Bruce Sterling‘s wonderful novel Schismatrix (1985), the spaceship Red Consensus has an interesting feature: The control room . . . had been designed by some forgotten industrial theorist who believed that instruments should use acoustic signals. . . . … Continue reading

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