Monthly Archives: October 2003

why Canter & Siegel bothered

Posted on Sunday, 2003 October 26 by Anton

Jerry, a Canadian married to a citizen of Ohio and doing his best to jump the bureaucratic hoops, illustrates my occasional grumbles about the arbitrariness and hypocrisy of the whole scheme.

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maybe Willow knows

Posted on Sunday, 2003 October 26 by Anton

Tom Digby asks: Could chocolate toxicity be used as a test of who is or is not a werewolf?

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MC Hawking, watch your back

Posted on Sunday, 2003 October 26 by Anton

Planned Obsolescence: Dictionaraoke. (Blogging this mainly to save the link. I may comment on it later.)

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N.S.

Posted on Saturday, 2003 October 25 by Anton

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century: Questions and answers with Neal Stephenson. I am amused to learn this — Stephenson said that he generally knows the ending to the story from the first day, from the “very … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Saturday, 2003 October 25 by Anton

Jon Callas: Remember, the truly evil thing about Microsoft is that because of them, we think of unix as the good stuff.

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transliterating candy

Posted on Friday, 2003 October 24 by Anton

The other day I brought home from a Thai restaurant a wrapped piece of hard candy, looking forward with pleasure to the prospect of opening a swell book that Dad gave me a few years ago, to see whether AMIRA … Continue reading →

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plus 25% for yourself

Posted on Friday, 2003 October 24 by Anton

Kieran Healy sees comic potential in the possibility of a Nigerian Pope. (Link from the incomparable Joshua Burton, who anomalously has no webpage to call his own.)

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