Category Archives: me!me!me!

visiting Mom

Posted on Sunday, 2003 February 09 by Anton

Mom’s birthday is this week and I wanted to buy her lunch today. She is the coffee committee at her UU church, so I went to the service to meet her. A woman sitting next to me said, “You should … Continue reading →

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not French, dammit (not that there’s anything wrong with that)

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 February 05 by Anton

In the first few minutes of my new temp assignment, two people said: “You must be Antone? Antoine?”

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achoo

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 February 04 by Anton

Isn’t pollen season supposed to come after winter?

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another hundred bullets

Posted on Monday, 2003 February 03 by Anton

Sunday I went to a target range for the first time in many months. I had what I call a left-handed day, when my ‘weak’ hand was much steadier than my ‘strong’ hand. (On average I’m nearly as accurate with … Continue reading →

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meet Madhu Kurup

Posted on Saturday, 2003 February 01 by Anton

Thursday I had dinner with Madhu Kurup at Amarin, a Thai restaurant in Mountain View which neither of us had tried before; he didn’t comment on his, but my dish (spicy chicken with cashews) was quite satisfactory. If you read … Continue reading →

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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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