Monthly Archives: May 2006

King Numbers

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 May 10 by Anton

You may have heard me advocate abolition of the US judiciary, as a way to restore some of the tension between Federal and State authorities that Publius considered so important. Failing that, I’ve also proposed to eliminate the “jackpot” effect … Continue reading →

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moods

Posted on Monday, 2006 May 08 by Anton

When the FDA banned tryptophan in 1990, it did not get around to restricting tryptophan’s metabolite 5-hydroxy-tryptophan. Since learning that a few weeks ago, I’ve been experimentally taking it; it seems to give my mood a floor. Today, though, I … Continue reading →

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nothing’s perfect

Posted on Sunday, 2006 May 07 by Anton

Since moving back to MacOS from Red Hat, I do miss a few features: ability to resize a window by dragging any edge, not only the bottom right corner ability to send the current window to the back with a … Continue reading →

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when grown-ups play with blocks

Posted on Sunday, 2006 May 07 by Anton

I’ve redone the Wikipedia page on convex uniform tilings of Euclidean 3-space. It occurs to me that one could enumerate the convex uniform tilings of flat, spherical and hyperbolic 3-spaces by an approach similar to what I’ve used to find … Continue reading →

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wandering the web

Posted on Saturday, 2006 May 06 by Anton

Gunnerkrigg Court, a newish cartoon-strip set in a decidedly weird boarding school. This is too good to leave buried in the comments: Loituma perform “Ievan polkka” Sheldon Richman: Capitalism vs Capitalism Something Positive: It’s entirely possible that you’ll appreciate this … Continue reading →

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