Author Archives: Anton

just a bit late for April 19

Riot in Boston: How Today’s Media Would Have Reported It

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lexicon lust

Saturday at Moe’s I found a recent reprint of the great Monier-Williams dictionary of Sanskrit (1899) for $35, about a quarter of what I had expected to pay someday for it. Whee. I find, by the way, that Indian printing … Continue reading

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pests

*sigh* It’s no fun trying to track down spammers anymore. A large fraction of them use cn.net, which ignores my mail, and/or xo.net, which explicitly rejects it!

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traipse

Ray-Traced Sphere — the old-fashioned way!

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Daylight Saving Week

Thursday was the first time, since I started getting up in the dark, that the sky was clear enough that I might see a sunrise. Well, sorta: I was in motion when I first saw the sun that day – … Continue reading

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Pray For Our Gun Show

snapshot worth a chuckle. (from the muted horn)

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http://nowhere

And then there’s the spammer who goes to such lengths to cover its tracks that Netscape can’t parse its silly links. Is it zaam.net, goopt.net, or something else again?

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