Category Archives: arts

six-string orchestra

Posted on Saturday, 2003 September 06 by Anton

Got out my guitar today – the one I gave myself for my birthday in 1999 – and picked out, by ear, two bars of Mussorgsky. Woo hoo!

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reality comes in layers

Posted on Monday, 2003 August 25 by Anton

Plato’s TV room

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don’t believe everything you download

Posted on Friday, 2003 August 22 by Anton

Greg Apodaca’s Digital Retouching Portfolio. Some of the examples are startling. (Link from B3ta.)

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beautiful plumage

Posted on Thursday, 2003 August 21 by Anton

Public service announcement: I keep reading that “the Norwegian Blue prefers keeping on its back,” which makes a tortured sort of sense; but the word in the script is kipping which means sleeping. Hope this helps.

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etymology

Posted on Sunday, 2003 August 17 by Anton

I wonder: Minbar, name of a planet in Babylon 5, could be Elvish for ‘first home’.

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Outlet

Posted on Saturday, 2003 August 16 by Anton

Bummer: the archive of Adam Greengard’s defunct cartoon No Outlet has vanished, I guess because its domain registration expired.

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getting cosy with evil

Posted on Thursday, 2003 August 07 by Anton

I’ve just finished reading John Holbrook Vance’s novel Bad Ronald (1973), and it’s keeping me awake. I wonder how much of its creepiness is due to its being set in California rather than on the planet Cadwal, and how much … Continue reading →

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