Category Archives: me!me!me!

I could get a swelled head

Posted on Friday, 2006 May 12 by Anton

Someone wrote to me out of the blue with a mathematical question. Though the statement of the problem was not clear enough for me to solve it, I told him how I’d approach it, and he was happy. I asked … Continue reading →

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moods

Posted on Monday, 2006 May 08 by Anton

When the FDA banned tryptophan in 1990, it did not get around to restricting tryptophan’s metabolite 5-hydroxy-tryptophan. Since learning that a few weeks ago, I’ve been experimentally taking it; it seems to give my mood a floor. Today, though, I … Continue reading →

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no golf, no glory

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 March 22 by Anton

Of the 87% of Americans who have one, half say they dislike the one they have. That was this evening’s prize question on KDFC, the classical radio station. When the announcer came on again he said that the answer is … Continue reading →

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and then vampires come, and they start making these stupid little mini-pizzas

Posted on Thursday, 2006 February 16 by Anton

So there I was, getting into the swing of Wikipedia, doing my bit for (among others) numerous entries relating to Buffy. I noticed that the pages for Darla, Angel, Spike and Harmony repeated a bunch, so I created an entry … Continue reading →

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one nocturne deserves

Posted on Monday, 2006 January 23 by Anton

I’m on graveyard shift. Last night there were two of us but tonight I have the floor to myself. It’s so slow, I’d be tempted to strip down and run laps, if I could be sure there are no cameras; … Continue reading →

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the urge to meddle

Posted on Thursday, 2006 January 12 by Anton

I recently began contributing to Wikipedia; my biggest contribution so far is these tables of convex uniform polychora (the data are borrowed, the arrangement mine). After a few days of this, wherever I see a webpage with awkward language I … Continue reading →