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Wil Shipley is a bright guy with a blog. He has many funny things to say about the rest of the world too … but mostly I’m a reader for his insights into software development. Mostly, he seems to agree with my own preconceived notions … but he says them better and from a . . . → Read More: Wil Shipley I really want to go to this: July 10-15, 2008 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will give an historic six-day teaching on The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam Rim Chen Mo), Tsong-kha-pa’s masterpiece on the stages of spiritual evolution. It will be the most extensive teaching of this . . . → Read More: Dalai Lama I just printed out three pieces of dead tree, put them in envelopes, and sent them to Washington. . . . → Read More: Letter to my Senator I got back from my class at about 1 in the morning on Saturday. Thanks to redmed for picking me up at the airport. Went to check out mattresses at the furniture store new the new apartment. Mattresses are EXPENSIVE. Anyone have any thoughts on what a reasonable human who wants to sleep really well . . . → Read More: Update We plan to use the standard cat relocation protocol for the move next weekend. The cats will be calmly (ha!) placed in their carriers and driven (MROW! MRRRRROW! MAAAAAU! Mau? MRROOOWWWWW!) to the apartment. They will then be placed in the guest bedroom (MAAAAAU!) with sufficient food, water, and litterbox access for a few days. . . . → Read More: Cat transfer protocol I posted a long time ago about the karate demonstration that my school held in support of the tomorrow fund, to help out families of kids with cancer. Dan made a video of the event, and pushed it up to YouTube: If you watch until 5:58, you can see me. Things are going great out here at class. At the end of the day, I’m consistently too mentally fried to do more than watch a dumb kung-fu flick and go to bed. The instructor hangs out in the lab until 9 or so in the evening, and some people seem to be working on pet . . . → Read More: Status update Consider that there is no way to happiness. Rather, it is happiness itself that is the way. Change your thoughts, Change your life – Wayne Dyer Just watched “Azumi.” The question you have to ask yourself before watching this film is “do I like swords?” If you like swords more than you like reality, drama, acting, or any notion of realism … you’ll like this movie. If not, not so much. What? Me? I like swords a lot. . . . → Read More: Azumi In other news, my home for the week is *way* off the grid. We have walking trails up to 5 miles in length, serious luxury accommodations in old school farmhouses, waterfalls, and a T1 connection. I plan to get up early and get some quality meditation time in. |
