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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“Joss Whedon is my master now”

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 September 28 by Anton

Naturally, Serenity rawks. I’ll have to see it again with fewer noisy fans to drown out the jokes!

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a symptom of something or other

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 September 27 by Anton

Each member of the California State Bar Association (which is a state entity) has a number, and the Bar’s website lets you search by number or by name. Barrister No. 1 was William Harrison Waste, admitted in June 1894. The highest number is 237747, belonging to Rex John Phillips, admitted in September 2005. You might ask, how long has it taken for the roster to double? Easy: look up barrister #118874, Andrew Henry Milinkevich, admitted in July 1985.

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my tiger ate my penguin!

Posted on Sunday, 2005 September 25 by Anton

Gratitude to Perry Metzger for a twenty-minute phone call: my Linux box is now transferring /home/anton to the new Mac Mini with scp.

Later: Apparently /home/anton/.Trash contained a recursive link; the copy of my home directory ended up nine times as big as the original. And I can’t delete the lump, because its owner is wheel, an account which I did not create and whose password I therefore do not know. Does MacBSD as preinstalled have a superuser account with a standard password?

Later still: Perry to the rescue again (he saw this post!). I needed to say sudo bash rather than su. Twenty-seven gigabytes of color glossy emptiness have appeared.

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new toy

Posted on Saturday, 2005 September 24 by Anton

I bought a Mac Mini today. What’s recommended reading for someone coming back to the Mac universe after a long absence? (My other computers run Red Hat 9 and MacOS 8.1.)

Monday: I bought David Pogue’s Missing Manual. It appears to be about twice as dense as its competitors.

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a compassionate nation

Posted on Friday, 2005 September 23 by Anton

Larry Elder lists some policies that harm people of color, sometimes intentionally.

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