are you threatening me?

Posted on Thursday, 2003 December 04 by Anton

Alas, “The Complete Beavis and Butt-Head” (six DVDs) apparently includes none of the boys’ commentary on music videos. One understands the copyright problem, but gee whiz, that’s some of the best bits gone.

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sleeping arrangements

Posted on Thursday, 2003 December 04 by Anton

I’m quite pleased with my new Coleman air-mattress. It replaces one from Greatland [Target’s house brand] which was rather less like a bed than like a quicksand pit.

Later: The air-mattress apparently succumbed to Fluffie’s claws as she scrambled up to keep me company. I now have a conventional mattress, sadly less comfortable.

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other media

Posted on Monday, 2003 December 01 by Anton

This morning I watched a five-way conversation in sign language, in which two of the participants were blind: the blind ‘listener’ rests a hand loosely around one of the speaker’s hands. I was surprised at how little touch was apparently needed.

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through a mathematician’s eye

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 29 by Anton

Google claims 111 hits for group.theory square.dance OR square.dancing.

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live and learn

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 29 by Anton

QOTD:

I’ve seen a lot of science-fiction movies. Before now I never knew what a couple hundred thousand flying metal squid fighting a couple thousand heavily armed steel apes in a concrete hemisphere about a quarter mile across while occasional giant drill bits fall from the ceiling like deadly stalactites (pause for breath) looked like.

John & Belle Have A Blog: Matrix Revolutions

Incidentally, I wonder how many of you who write raw HTML take a secret pleasure in re-wrapping the lines to emphasize the phrasing, using EOL as an invisible demi-comma. (2004 Oct 26: That habit came back to bite me, when I converted my archives to WordPress which may be considered to have a bug when it comes to newlines.)

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au palais des vaches

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 29 by Anton

Last weekend the National Geographic Society had a clearance sale at the Cow Palace, with bunches of $50 “coffee table” books for $10. I had dinner afterward with an old friend, who remarked, “When you said you were going to the Cow Palace, I assumed it was a gun show.” His sweetie put in: “Don’t be silly, Anton isn’t a gun freak!”

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the possibilities of time-travel

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 29 by Anton

Jane Austen and the Terminator (cited by Chris Martin in a comment at Crooked Timber)

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