Author Archives: Anton

inochi mijikashi

LanguageHat tells of seeing Kurosawa’s 生きる Ikiru (1952) for the first time, and provides the words of the song “Life is Short”.

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if it vents like a duct . . .

The truth about duck tape? (Languagehat)

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Mary Sue classic

In The Importance of Being Earnest, is Algernon Moncrief meant to resemble Oscar Wilde? In the film of 1952 he does.

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tick tick tick

Does anyone make a car whose turn-signals expire after (say) a mile? The question raised itself when, not for the first or tenth time, I politely hung back to let a truck into my lane . . . and found that the … Continue reading

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watching the talkies

I watched half of Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) and found none of the characters at all interesting. My housemate and I both enjoyed Outside Edge (1994), a series about two contrasting couples (Brenda Blethyn and Robert Daws; Josie Lawrence … Continue reading

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wish I could help

Someone recently found my mathematical doodles page by searching for analemma golden ratio. I hope the visitor was enlightened, but as far as I know there’s no relation between the golden ratio and the analemma!

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$2.56 and counting

Subject: The Concept of a Meta-Font Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 03:18:42 -0700 From: Anton Sherwood To: knuth-bug Digital Typography page 312, near the middle of note [11] 759,499,667,966,482 [ = 2 * 19 * 3717809 * 5375971 ] should … Continue reading

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