Busy
Is it seriously almost May? Holy crap. Just got back from a quick trip to New Jersey. On said trip, I … well … let’s just say it was work, a little stressful, it’s not quite done yet. You should see the other guy. I…
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Wine
28 bottles of wine on the shelf, 28 bottles of wine … And now we wait for at least a month to crack one and see if the effort was a total waste of time. The glass that I extracted during the bottling process (bad…
Where to Dwell
I’ve been considering the house, and decided to consult The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path. In the chapter on preparing for meditative serenity I found this: Dwelling in an appropriate area The area should have five attributes: (a) easy access, so that…
More Focus! More Family
Back in March, I wrote a letter to Focus on the Family about a show that they aired on ‘the new atheism.’ They wrote back. So today I’m firing off a response to the response. Also, my friend Dan has a radio show called Freethought…
Triple Headshot
Triple Headshot Three gunshots. All three fatal. Fired in the dark by three specially trained U.S. Navy SEALs as the pirates’ boat rocked in the water off Somalia. “Phenomenal shots — 75 feet away,” said Navy Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, who oversees the region. A…
Quote
I’ve got a Dalai Lama “quote of the day” tear off calendar on my desk. The insights are sometimes more directly applicable and sometimes less. Sometimes I’ve been reminded of a friend and sent them the quote directly. This one strikes me as not unreasonable…
Weekend
Weekend has been pretty good so far. Started off with a massive technical win – which I’m still struggling to even describe without resorting to a whiteboard. I think that I did something pretty cool … so cool that I can’t even really explain it.…
Judo
I’ve had a story to write for a while, but haven’t taken the time to put it down. Here it is: Recently, my judo club hosted the Lebanese men’s Judo team for a week. Basically, we trained every night with some very high level players.…
Let the wheel come around
redmed informs me that there is a Hebrew tradition of celebrating a 28 year solar cycle – when the vernal equinox falls on a Tuesday at Sundown. According to wikipedia this represents a return of the sun to the position where it was when the…