Category Archives: me!me!me!

where did you go?

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 31 by Anton

Traffic here declined slightly from December (4402 visits, 19910 hits) to January (4175 visits, 17380 hits). I’d like to think that’s because I added robots.txt to keep the search-engines out of non-content pages like the stats; but hits on the … Continue reading →

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not my favorite herb

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 January 29 by Anton

Twenty years ago I’d barely heard of cilantro; now it’s hard to avoid. (I’m in a hereditary minority afflicted with the ability to taste it.) When did cilantro replace parsley as the ubiquitous garnish?

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plink plank plunk

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 28 by Anton

Does anybody know a good guitar teacher (for beginners) between, oh, San Leandro and Milpitas inclusive? 2006 May: Never mind, I’m selling the guitar. I find no way to hold it without causing pain in at least one wrist.

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yeah, I said that already

Posted on Sunday, 2003 January 19 by Anton

Strolling through my mail archives (outgoing), I find the occasional bon mot worth repeating. 1998 March 12: Mind you, being a bit of a romantic (former member of the Society for Creative Anachronism), I confess I do find “High-Tech-Middle Ages” … Continue reading →

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Arlo nails it

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 10 by Anton

One of my favorite songs begins: It’s the tenth of January / and I still ain’t had no sleep

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would a Yankee professor lie?

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 07 by Anton

I sent Dad a pretty piece of meteorite, without explanation, knowing that he and his missus would have fun guessing what it is. I had never seen stuff like it: lumps of olivine (a translucent silicate rock) in a matrix … Continue reading →

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Uni High

Posted on Thursday, 2002 December 26 by Anton

My hi-skool’s alumnal newsletter came this week. I am pleased to learn that my fellow escapees include someone more eminent than that guy who writes about baseball for Newsweek, namely the late economist James Tobin, whose autobiography names two previous … Continue reading →

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