Author Archives: Anton

intertwingled

Simon & Garfunkel came up in conversation, and I mentally listed their alba: Wednesday Morning 3AM, Sounds of Silence, Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Water. Wait, aren’t there five? I was sure there are five . . . . . The other one came to … Continue reading

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musical generations

I’ve had this conversation more than once. I’m chatting with a cashier half my age. A song circa 1967 is in the background. Me: “Is that song familiar to you?” Cashier: “Um, yeah.” Me: “When I was your age, if … Continue reading

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there are domains and domains

keenspace.com, a free hosting service for comic strips, changed its name (not long after it was founded) to comicgenesis.com; but the old name still works, as do comicgen.com and (I just learned) toonspace.com and webcomicspace.com. Well, mostly. Mostly it doesn’t … Continue reading

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graceless prose

. . . a Kennewick Washington based [organization] based in Southeastern Washington. Not only did someone write that, an accountant and a lawyer probably looked it over before it went public, and no one thought to rephrase it . . . an [organization] based … Continue reading

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another problem with my clothoids

I wrote: each curve hits alternate dots: first exactly, then with offsets pushing it toward the other curve. I don’t think I’ve mentioned here how the offsets work.

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clothoid weekend update

For context, see past posts in the curve-fitting category that I just created. To recap: The curves I’ve been drawing are the paths made by a point moving at constant speed at an angle which is a piecewise quadratic function … Continue reading

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second-guessing by halves

Early strips of some webcomics carry the author’s much later comments. Christopher Baldwin (Bruno) and David Willis (Roomies!) are reposting old series that ended. David Morgan-Mar’s (Irregular Webcomic!) schedule these days is two new strips and five comments on old … Continue reading

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