Author Archives: Anton

To Live

Posted on Friday, 2004 April 09 by Anton

I bought a DVD of Kurosawa’s 生きる Ikiru, inferring from the presence of English text on the package that the show would be subtitled. Oops!

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hint: parallelism

Posted on Monday, 2004 April 05 by Anton

Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google’s Power

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hi, Jo!

Posted on Sunday, 2004 April 04 by Anton

Is JoAnne Schmitz yanking my chain? She linked here — on April 1.

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bring enough gun

Posted on Thursday, 2004 April 01 by Anton

One thing that bugs me about Buffy is her habit of going under-armed. In The Prom (3:20), why did she take itty-bitty arrows rather than a dwarvish axe to hunt the hell-hounds? In Shadow (5:8), why didn’t Giles bring a … Continue reading →

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i hate when that happens

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 March 30 by Anton

Larry Trask, a well of linguistic erudition and good humor, has died.

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QotD

Posted on Sunday, 2004 March 28 by Anton

Tyler Cowen: The key thing that markets do is economize on the need for agreement.

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utopia and a pony

Posted on Sunday, 2004 March 21 by Anton

Micha Ghertner responds to the charge of libertarian utopianism: Neither Barnett nor Friedman exhibits the kind of wishful thinking that Belle Waring lampoons in her much cited blog post. If anything, they argue for just the opposite. It requires a … Continue reading →

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