Author Archives: Anton

Salivili hipput tupput täppyt äppyt tipput hilijalleen

Posted on Monday, 2005 October 24 by Anton

An unexpected effect of listening to music through my computer’s speakers is a better stereo image than I’m used to. That’s how I noticed for the first time that Loituma’s joyously goofy song Ievan polkka has four vocal parts, not … Continue reading →

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what’s so good about it

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 23 by Anton

Orson Scott Card reviews Serenity

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a year passes like nothing

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 22 by Anton

It’s a year since I moved this humble effort from Blogger to WordPress, plenty of time for some of you to update your links — not that I’m not grateful for attention in whatever form. A tip of the hat … Continue reading →

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mall.montreal.com, whoever you are

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 22 by Anton

Why go to the bother of generating referral spam for a page with no content?

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Brent gets desperate

Posted on Thursday, 2005 October 20 by Anton

how to impress chicks?

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layers of language

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 October 18 by Anton

In the chaos that is my mind at this hour — Brain damage such as stroke can take away the symbolic processing ability known as language. I wonder: does the most obvious kind of sign-language, pointing and miming, go with … Continue reading →

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with friends like these

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 15 by Anton

Argh. I just tried to back up my home directory folder to a DVD. When the burn was nearing completion, it aborted because Finder “cannot find data fork of file <unable to locate file path>”. Got that? Four gigabytes of … Continue reading →

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