New location, same erratic service!
The old address (ogre.nu) should work as a redirect until that domain expires on March 28.
I put a series of tilings of the hyperbolic plane on Wikimedia Commons.
When I registered my domain, about 1998, .nu was the cheapest registry. It’s now €30/year. Before renewal is due (March 28) I should move to a cheaper address. (Yeah, I said the same two years ago. This time around, I have more lead-time and more motivation.)
I’d prefer something shorter than antonsherwood.name; any suggestions? Naturally ogre.* is long gone.
one difference between a loony loner and a policeman
When some solitary nut shoots a little girl by mistake, he doesn’t have an Internal Affairs Department to certify that he followed all procedures correctly.
In the movie Avatar, one of the floating mountains has a waterfall, at which my suspension of disbelief groaned: there’s not enough rain catchment area, and obviously there can’t be a spring.
But now I thought of a possibility. There wasn’t any sign that the waterfall flows continuously. So maybe the mountain has a concavity (however shallow), which spills over when something – such as a steady wind from one direction – tips it.
the inquiring mind, however dim
When Jeff Riggenbach said that Butt-Head is smarter than Beavis, I told him about this bit (the relevant part begins at 1:30). I say Butt-Head is more worldly but Beavis is more imaginative.
Travis Corcoran wrote, in response to a question:
This is deserving of a longer post, but the ultra-brief version:
I started out soft atheist, but always accepted the absolute existence of good and evil (it is evil to kill Jews in gas chambers, even if both the law and the prevailing culture say that it is OK).
The acceptance of an absolute moral code eventually lead me to theism.
Given that one absolute that I accept, I felt I had to accept theism.
I guess hope there’s a lot hidden under that word eventually.
I rashly commented:
Hm. Should I bother writing up my godless views on objective evil?
and, to my amazement, someone took me up on it:
If you’re feeling like it, I’d be happy to read them!