. . . muttered the ogre

i got tired of looking at grey ribbons

Posted on Monday, 2011 February 21 by Anton

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awkward expectations

Posted on Sunday, 2011 February 20 by Anton

Many of the anecdotes at Not Always Right concern customers who expect someone to know, without being told anything, what they seek. It crosses my mind that, if you’re stupid enough, you frequently encounter someone who accurately infers things that you have not said, and come to expect it.

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how do people talk?

Posted on Monday, 2011 February 14 by Anton

When (American) TV actors utter the phrase “What are you doing here?”, as I must have heard dozens of times lately, they nearly always emphasize doing — and I nearly always think it would make more sense to emphasize either here or you; if the question were provoked by your doing rather than your presence, the asker would omit here.

Am I taking the phrase too literally? How do you say it?

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potential merch

Posted on Monday, 2011 February 14 by Anton

Do any of these 15 designs inspire you to buy a coffee cup?
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more chainmail

Posted on Saturday, 2011 February 12 by Anton

This image, which I made a few years ago, is based on a tiling of the hyperbolic plane with triangles whose angles are π/2, π/3, π/7. Other than the 7, which can be changed to any higher integer, I couldn’t vary these numbers without ruining the effect. Recently I thought of a simpler, and thus more general, way to generate the ribbons.

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