Category Archives: sciences

happy leap day

Posted on Friday, 2008 February 29 by Anton

If I were Pope Gregory’s advisor, I’d urge this: all months to have 30 days until the first (or last) of some month falls on a solstice or equinox; thereafter, alternate 30, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 30, … Continue reading →

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negative curves

Posted on Monday, 2008 February 04 by Anton

For years I’ve wished to learn enough hyperbolic geometry to write a simple ray-tracer. Recently a post on comp.graphics.algorithms advised me to look up Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry by Patrick J. Ryan; I was pleased to find that its subtitle … Continue reading →

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non c’è più religione

Posted on Friday, 2007 November 30 by Anton

Tsk. A current radio spot gives the web address “wachovia dot com backslash new”. Meanwhile, what’s new with me? I’m reading Coxeter’s Non-Euclidean Geometry in the hope that it will give me the stuff I’ve sought in vain in other … Continue reading →

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I suspected as much

Posted on Monday, 2007 November 19 by Anton

Roderick Long (1993): How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis: Medical Insurance that Worked – Until Government “Fixed” It Hey, I’m a fictional character! Dr. Anton Sherwood, “an older man in a tweed suit”, appears in The Secret Hour by … Continue reading →

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they keep on talking funny

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 October 23 by Anton

The latest thing to puzzle me in med-speak is “benign yet appropriate”. When would it be inappropriate to appear healthy? There apparently exists a surgical tool called a synovial elevator. Makes me think of a bioengineered building, with beams of … Continue reading →

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