Author Archives: Anton

where the Chicks are

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 14 by Anton

I’ve just been invited to join Amazing Grace Tract Fellowship on InJesus.com. We provide Chick tracts and other materials to Evangelical Christian Missionaries worldwide. Is this someone’s twisted joke, or was my address harvested because I mentioned Chick last month?

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area code is destiny?

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 14 by Anton

It has been brought to my attention that 415 is HTTP code for “Unsupported Media Type”. I guess that would include former employees of the Industry Standard.

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an impossible soap-film

Posted on Saturday, 2002 April 13 by Anton

Did a spot of programming today: a crude script to translate Surface Evolver output into PoV-Ray input. Took me maybe an hour. Python r00lz.

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I feel my pain

Posted on Saturday, 2002 April 13 by Anton

My temp job is at a lawfirm that defends insurers in Workers Comp. (They seem surprisingly honest about Trying to Do the Right Thing.) Typing all these letters about cumulative trauma and tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome . . . makes my … Continue reading →

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“Immigrants”

Posted on Saturday, 2002 April 13 by Anton

a touching tale of leaving behind the familiar for a strange new world. (August 1996)

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the late unpleasantness

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 April 09 by Anton

Recent reading: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (Prima/Forum, 2002). Despite the title, this book is less about Lincoln himself than about his ambition, Republican policy in … Continue reading →

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DFGBE

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 08 by Anton

Dr. Fenderson’s Greater British Empire™. I suppose it’s only to be expected that the priests of the Temple ov thee Lemur have read Snow Crash.

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