Category Archives: California

whats your excu’se?

Posted on Sunday, 2009 November 08 by Anton

Does Spanish normally use apostrophes at all?

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sights

Posted on Tuesday, 2009 October 20 by Anton
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a guilt-trip down memory lane

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 July 29 by Anton

When I lived in Oakland, I was twice approached after sunset by a panhandler who announced, “I’m black but I’m not a mugger!” Both times I flinched and, of course, felt guilty. It now occurs to me belatedly that, if … Continue reading →

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two small mysteries of the animal world

Posted on Saturday, 2009 March 28 by Anton

Around noon the other day, I saw a steady stream of moths flying north along the BART track: not dense enough to call them a flock, let alone a swarm, but enough that I always had a few of them … Continue reading →

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Vince Miller

Posted on Sunday, 2008 June 29 by Anton

The “Master of the Revolution”, cofounder of the International Society for Individual Liberty, a former flatmate of mine who taught me much about firearms, has died. Tributes: Tom Knapp, Joseph Bast (Heartland Institute), Sieg Pedde, Tim Starr, Classically Liberal, LPUS … Continue reading →

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the view from in here

Posted on Sunday, 2007 December 16 by Anton

I suspect my new glasses have more chromatic aberration than the old. In my computer background pattern, a fractal with lots of intense colors, the red seems to stand out in front of the blue. In unrelated news, we had … Continue reading →

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still burning?

Posted on Friday, 2007 November 02 by Anton

Four years ago I posted a link to satellite images of the forest fires then burning in California. In the past month that post has attracted well over a thousand searches!

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