just a bit late for April 19

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 21 by Anton

Riot in Boston: How Today’s Media Would Have Reported It

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lexicon lust

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 21 by Anton

Saturday at Moe’s I found a recent reprint of the great Monier-Williams dictionary of Sanskrit (1899) for $35, about a quarter of what I had expected to pay someday for it. Whee. I find, by the way, that Indian printing has much improved since the Seventies.

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pests

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 18 by Anton

*sigh* It’s no fun trying to track down spammers anymore. A large fraction of them use cn.net, which ignores my mail, and/or xo.net, which explicitly rejects it!

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traipse

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 18 by Anton

Ray-Traced Sphere — the old-fashioned way!

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Daylight Saving Week

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 18 by Anton

Thursday was the first time, since I started getting up in the dark, that the sky was clear enough that I might see a sunrise. Well, sorta: I was in motion when I first saw the sun that day – popping out from the shoulder of a hill. Does that count??

Friday evening: possibly a new best for me: I did the NYT crossword between Lake Merritt and Montgomery station. (Except for one letter. I know neither the name of a Japanese baseball pitcher nor that of a steelworkers union boss in 196x-7x.)

Later: Eventually I noticed that I wrote the above on Thursday. (I didn’t go to the City on Friday.) I thought we’d gone over to Daylight Saving Week, you see.

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Pray For Our Gun Show

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 17 by Anton

snapshot worth a chuckle. (from the muted horn)

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http://nowhere

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 April 16 by Anton

And then there’s the spammer who goes to such lengths to cover its tracks that Netscape can’t parse its silly links. Is it zaam.net, goopt.net, or something else again?

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