Author Archives: Anton

serial or parallel?

Posted on Friday, 2004 May 07 by Anton

Shiny! (before Firefly)

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morbid

Posted on Monday, 2004 May 03 by Anton

Did anyone mark the occasion when Tom Lehrer’s joke about Mozart reached a certain age?

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another Browncoat

Posted on Saturday, 2004 May 01 by Anton

Claire Wolfe enjoys Firefly, film at eleven. She’s not so keen on Kaylee: The only element that didn’t ring true to me was this little gamin girly they made the ship’s mechanic. She sort of “intuits” the machinery of the … Continue reading →

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sf predictions

Posted on Saturday, 2004 May 01 by Anton

Dave Langford heard from Tanaqui Weaver: Slavishly imitating the title gadget of Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, With Occasional Music, there’s now an MP3 player (‘AK-MP3’) designed to fit the ammo clip slot of a Kalashnikov. Later: T.Weaver explains, “Ananova’s Quirkies frequently … Continue reading →

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alone?

Posted on Friday, 2004 April 30 by Anton

Data from the Infrared Astronomy Satellite have been used to search for Dyson spheres; no luck. (pdf; cited at Sharp Blue)

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dream continuity

Posted on Friday, 2004 April 30 by Anton

I dreamed I went to see a movie that was set in San Francisco, but the producers wanted to avoid location shooting, so all the street scenes were stock film with blue-screening — and the stock was from different periods. … Continue reading →