Author Archives: Anton

Framestore CFC Press Release

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 09 by Anton

noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.

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partial translation

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 08 by Anton

I see that in Yahoo’s Chinese translation my name is “安東 Sherwood”, i.e. Anton becomes ‘peace+east’ (which in Japanese is pronounced antō, unfortunately).

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travelogue

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 October 05 by Anton

Someone mounted a camera on the back seat of a convertible to shoot a compressed record of a trip from Los Angeles to New York.

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a day’s air traffic

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 01 by Anton

I downloaded this two years ago but never watched it before: animation of US airline movements around the clock

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“Joss Whedon is my master now”

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 September 28 by Anton

Naturally, Serenity rawks. I’ll have to see it again with fewer noisy fans to drown out the jokes!

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a symptom of something or other

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 September 27 by Anton

Each member of the California State Bar Association (which is a state entity) has a number, and the Bar’s website lets you search by number or by name. Barrister No. 1 was William Harrison Waste, admitted in June 1894. The … Continue reading →

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my tiger ate my penguin!

Posted on Sunday, 2005 September 25 by Anton

Gratitude to Perry Metzger for a twenty-minute phone call: my Linux box is now transferring /home/anton to the new Mac Mini with scp. Later: Apparently /home/anton/.Trash contained a recursive link; the copy of my home directory ended up nine times … Continue reading →

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