Category Archives: me!me!me!

my pet programming project

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 25 by Anton

Over several years now I have worked sporadically to catalog hypothetical fullerenes — i.e. convex closed surfaces built of pentagons and hexagons. Last year I tossed out my old work in C to start over in Python, whose list primitive … Continue reading →

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lexicon lust

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 21 by Anton

Saturday at Moe’s I found a recent reprint of the great Monier-Williams dictionary of Sanskrit (1899) for $35, about a quarter of what I had expected to pay someday for it. Whee. I find, by the way, that Indian printing … Continue reading →

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Daylight Saving Week

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 18 by Anton

Thursday was the first time, since I started getting up in the dark, that the sky was clear enough that I might see a sunrise. Well, sorta: I was in motion when I first saw the sun that day – … Continue reading →

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an impossible soap-film

Posted on Saturday, 2002 April 13 by Anton

Did a spot of programming today: a crude script to translate Surface Evolver output into PoV-Ray input. Took me maybe an hour. Python r00lz.

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I feel my pain

Posted on Saturday, 2002 April 13 by Anton

My temp job is at a lawfirm that defends insurers in Workers Comp. (They seem surprisingly honest about Trying to Do the Right Thing.) Typing all these letters about cumulative trauma and tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome . . . makes my … Continue reading →

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the clock has new numbers

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 01 by Anton

You may be hearing less from me in the next few weeks. Got a temp job that involves getting up at hours previously unknown to civilized man, at least this one.

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wish carefully

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Last week I moaned about unemployment. So now I’m all-but-offered a job: doing work even more mechanical than before, at 3/5 the wage. Naturally the client won’t want to invest three weeks of training (on a proprietary system; the last … Continue reading →

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