a year passes like nothing

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 22 by Anton

It’s a year since I moved this humble effort from Blogger to WordPress, plenty of time for some of you to update your links — not that I’m not grateful for attention in whatever form.

A tip of the hat to those few who have already done so.

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mall.montreal.com, whoever you are

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 22 by Anton

Why go to the bother of generating referral spam for a page with no content?

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Brent gets desperate

Posted on Thursday, 2005 October 20 by Anton

how to impress chicks?

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layers of language

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 October 18 by Anton

In the chaos that is my mind at this hour —

Brain damage such as stroke can take away the symbolic processing ability known as language. I wonder: does the most obvious kind of sign-language, pointing and miming, go with it? And do Deaf signers so afflicted lose more or less of the naïve sign-language than the hearing do? In one sense these questions have no meaningful answer, because every stroke is different; but there must be interesting correlations.

Does stroke ever take away the ability to process conditional or relative clauses?

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with friends like these

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 15 by Anton

Argh. I just tried to back up my home directory folder to a DVD. When the burn was nearing completion, it aborted because Finder “cannot find data fork of file <unable to locate file path>”. Got that? Four gigabytes of files can’t be archived because one of them — which may not really exist, for all I can tell — is corrupt. And why didn’t this error message show up during the “Preparing data” phase, to save me from wasting a blank?

Later: It occurred to me that this could have happened because a temporary file was deleted between the preparation and the burn. So I closed all applications and tried again; no luck. Then I noticed on the packaging that these Memorex 8X blanks apparently cannot be burned properly by my 2X drive. (sigh)

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stupid kitten jokes

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 15 by Anton

Pillow has taken up hunting the human ankles that pass by. He’s quite the ankle tom.

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Free Market Anti-Capitalism

Posted on Thursday, 2005 October 13 by Anton

I wonder what I did to deserve being blogrolled by Mutualist (Kevin Carson).

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