morning chatter

Posted on Thursday, 2005 October 13 by Anton

“What was it I wanted at Trader Joe’s? Oh, right, I’m on a diet.”

“I wouldn’t put it past them to name a product that. ‘Oh Right I’m On A Diet’ brand tofu chips.”

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spilling shells

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 09 by Anton

A surprising passage in The Adventure of the Dancing Men:

[Sherlock] Holmes hunted about among the grass and leaves like a retriever after a wounded bird. Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder.

“I thought so,” said he; “the revolver had an ejector, and here is the third cartridge. . . .”

Were ejecting revolvers ever common?

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QotD

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 09 by Anton

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference. —Marshall McLuhan

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Framestore CFC Press Release

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 09 by Anton

noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.

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partial translation

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 08 by Anton

I see that in Yahoo’s Chinese translation my name is “安東 Sherwood”, i.e. Anton becomes ‘peace+east’ (which in Japanese is pronounced antō, unfortunately).

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travelogue

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 October 05 by Anton

Someone mounted a camera on the back seat of a convertible to shoot a compressed record of a trip from Los Angeles to New York.

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a day’s air traffic

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 01 by Anton

I downloaded this two years ago but never watched it before: animation of US airline movements around the clock

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