Category Archives: me!me!me!

unexpected solutions to unknown problems

Posted on Monday, 2013 March 18 by Anton

I woke up (within a dream), looked out my window and saw that my new upstairs neighbor (there is no upstairs unit here) stored his cello by hanging it from a kite. I went up to the roof and found … Continue reading →

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back

Posted on Sunday, 2013 January 13 by Anton

I return to Cascadia after a 39-day visit with Dad in the high desert. He forgives me for not fully sharing his admiration for dry scenery. We watched a slew of movies together: Wreck-It Ralph; Midnight in Paris; Dr Horrible’s … Continue reading →

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Divinearmor

Posted on Tuesday, 2012 October 30 by Anton

A new participant on Wikipedia, with an axe to grind, wrote to me: I’ve seen your articles. Devout liberal garbage that even your own administrators bash you for writing. Less than a week later, that editor has been banned for … Continue reading →

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passerby

Posted on Tuesday, 2012 July 17 by Anton

When I die, I’d prefer to slip away unnoticed. Ideally, let there be no record of the dates of my birth and death, only a floruit.

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but wait there’s more

Posted on Thursday, 2012 June 14 by Anton

This one is a projection of a design on (half of) the surface of a hypersphere: a ribbon spans two orthogonal great circles, wrapping three times around one and five times around the other. Kitty teeth did break it at … Continue reading →

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Baby’s First Klein Bottle™

Posted on Thursday, 2012 June 14 by Anton

Not only did it not fall apart in my hands …

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first tangible result

Posted on Thursday, 2012 June 07 by Anton

The strand — for it is a Klein bottle woven of a single strand — is thinner than I expected, and has broken in at least two places. Ah well, live and learn; I’ve already redesigned it to be more … Continue reading →

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