Category Archives: me!me!me!

let’s get Physical

A few months ago, a grad student at MIT asked permission to use my illustration of a diamond crystal in an article for Physics World. I got the December issue in today’s mail. Wow — my modest doodle (re-rendered, for … Continue reading

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possibly not one of my brightest ideas ever

If my new printer’s resolution is 1200 dots/inch, then a sheet of gringo-standard letter paper with half-inch margins can take an image of 9000 by 12000 pixels. As a test, therefore, I rendered one of my most complex Povray images … Continue reading

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marks on paper

Time to buy a printer, preferably cheap; most likely an Epson or HP all-in-one. Any advice is welcome. Wednesday: I popped out to Circuit City and bought the cheapest printer-scanner, which happened to be HP’s PSC1400. I had acquired a … Continue reading

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bitterness[nwhine++]

I resent Halloween: it’s so close to my birthday that I long ago gave up trying to compete with all the parties going on then. I don’t announce my exact birthdate; that way I tell myself I’ll be less disappointed … Continue reading

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a year passes like nothing

It’s a year since I moved this humble effort from Blogger to WordPress, plenty of time for some of you to update your links — not that I’m not grateful for attention in whatever form. A tip of the hat … Continue reading

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Free Market Anti-Capitalism

I wonder what I did to deserve being blogrolled by Mutualist (Kevin Carson).

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partial translation

I see that in Yahoo’s Chinese translation my name is “安東 Sherwood”, i.e. Anton becomes ‘peace+east’ (which in Japanese is pronounced antō, unfortunately).

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