Category Archives: me!me!me!

suggestion box

Posted on Sunday, 2009 January 25 by Anton

I’ve been out of work since September. I may yet be reinstated (the decision-maker has been stalling since November), but supposing otherwise, I need advice. My one known marketable skill is wordprocessing, which will eventually be obsolete as voice recognition … Continue reading →

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back in time

Posted on Sunday, 2008 December 28 by Anton

I wrecked my blog in trying to cure a Unicode display problem, and restored the site from a backup of December 11. A few posts and comments were lost.

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a futile protest

Posted on Friday, 2008 October 17 by Anton

Charlie Stross, interviewed in H+ magazine, mentions in passing . . . the more socially dysfunctional libertarians (who are convinced that if the brakes on capitalism were off, they’d somehow be teleported to the apex of the food chain in place of … Continue reading →

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hyperreality

Posted on Monday, 2008 September 22 by Anton

Dad has often mentioned that when he first got eyeglasses he was surprised to see that trees had discrete leaves; I never found that to be a big deal. But now I sometimes find that blades of grass stand out … Continue reading →

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what were you thinking?

Posted on Thursday, 2008 August 07 by Anton

The puzzlingest search string I’ve seen lately is ice weapons in sherwood maps.

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stick a finger in my eye

Posted on Sunday, 2008 July 27 by Anton

After wearing glasses for thirty-odd years, I’m tired of it. I’m thinking of surgery; since I’m on the verge of needing bifocals, my bright idea is to have one eye adjusted for distance and the other for arm’s length (the … Continue reading →

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the clatter, or not, of the pins

Posted on Monday, 2008 March 24 by Anton

Saturday, at the suggestion of my new friend Jennifer Justice, I went bowling for the first time since – um – 1983?? Well, since 1997 at least. The previous time, whenever it was, my knuckles ached. This time my hands … Continue reading →

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