Leviathan’s appetite

Posted on Sunday, 2013 February 03 by Anton

Fred Astaire was 42 years old when his character was drafted in You’ll Never Get Rich, released some months before Pearl Harbor. What?!

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morning nap

Posted on Monday, 2013 January 21 by Anton

I found a laser pointer lying around …
Bramble sat up and watched the spot attentively.
Rocky chased it like a demon.

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back

Posted on Sunday, 2013 January 13 by Anton

I return to Cascadia after a 39-day visit with Dad in the high desert. He forgives me for not fully sharing his admiration for dry scenery.

We watched a slew of movies together: Wreck-It Ralph; Midnight in Paris; Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog; The King’s Speech; Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner; Hot Fuzz; Tucker & Dale vs Evil; The Good, the Bad, the Weird; 3 Idiots; Brave; Absurdistan; Going by the Book; An Unexpected Journey; The Thirteenth Floor. (He didn’t “get” Dr Horrible and I didn’t “get” Atanarjuat, but in general we approved of each other’s choices.)

We also watched about a dozen NFL games, including the first round of playoffs (the “wild card” games). I had seen few if any games since Jerry Rice’s day, and was surprised at how the defense dominated most of these; in particular, I saw very few successful long passes.

Much as I enjoy Dad’s company, I am glad to get back to familiar routines, green grass, and cats who know what my lap is for.

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Russian runes?

Posted on Saturday, 2012 December 01 by Anton

Backtracking a search that led to my runes, I found this page that seems to claim that the futhark descended from a Russian system based on segments selected from the wheel graph W6. One needn’t accept the claim to find the system at least a little bit interesting.

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For want of some fractional measure of devotion

Posted on Wednesday, 2012 November 07 by Anton

I’m too literal-minded. When I hear corporate puff like

None of this would have been possible without the complete dedication and teamwork of every one of you in this room

I think, wow, just imagine all the grand projects that vanished without a trace because one of several hundred drones either lacked complete dedication or was hit by a bus.

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Divinearmor

Posted on Tuesday, 2012 October 30 by Anton

A new participant on Wikipedia, with an axe to grind, wrote to me:

I’ve seen your articles. Devout liberal garbage that even your own administrators bash you for writing.

Less than a week later, that editor has been banned for persistently trying to use Wikipedia to push political agenda — and now I’ll never know what that crack was about. I have administrators?

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u-shape-it

Posted on Monday, 2012 August 27 by Anton

Hm, Shapeways has an API. If I were a skilled Web programmer I’d make a page where you can choose the size and frequencies of a Klein bagel model …

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