Author Archives: Anton

ungrammatical boys, ungrammatical boys, whatcha gonna do?

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 31 by Anton

Okay, the Grammar Police gag has been done before, if not quite so stylishly. I don’t mind an excuse to plug my favorite college strip.

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lovely, wonderful

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 31 by Anton

Got a spam today that may have been designed purely to annoy me. The title is “hi, I fixed the problem . . .” and the entire content is <img src=”http://www.1stchannel.com/images/pixel.gif?track=1&entry=[myaddress]” border=”0″> Had I opened this with image-loading enabled, it would look blank … Continue reading →

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peeves

Posted on Saturday, 2002 March 30 by Anton

My clipping service (hi Jo) found these in alt.peeves: Well apart from coffee, algebra and astronomy, Positional notation/place value, soap and international trade, what have the arabs ever done for us? [link] and: Peeve: people who think the main purpose … Continue reading →

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short and stout

Posted on Saturday, 2002 March 30 by Anton

Steve Baker tells the tale of the Utah Teapot. (Found through another Steve’s links.) Links in turn to the Stanford Bunny. And what collection of digital models would be complete without Lena Sjööblom? I first saw her in Foley & … Continue reading →

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generic carnivory

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

The oddest things sometimes bug me. Does anyone else remember a children’s book which mentions eating “roast beast”? Update. One reader (see, this is how I smoke you out) points it out in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I feel … Continue reading →

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Yahoo alert

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

(I received about three versions of this warning today. This one came first, from Harvey Newstrom of Extropy Institute, and is the most detailed.) Yahoo has added a new section to your “Account Info” that requests spammers to send you … Continue reading →

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the secret origin of the Nanites

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 29 by Anton

Dave Krieger, whom I haven’t seen in too long, tells the tale of his role in the creation of Krieger Waves. (This is not new but I don’t remember seeing it before.)

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