mushin no shin

First, go meet Little Lesley Simpson.
Now then, who’s this guy?

Well, no one really knows, hell they don’t even know his name. He doesn’t say much. The generally accepted rumor has it he was the bastard child of Professor Frink and the Crazy Cat Lady — and was actually raised by her cats. Works for the [...]

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, [...]

I’m proud to say that, with the possible exception of referencing her humiliating loss to Mr. Slave in the South Park “whore-off”, I’m pretty sure the name “Paris Hilton” has never graced this blog until now, for the singular purpose of saying that the following is awesome:

When you’re unsure about a given issue, whether it’s race relations or equal rights for women, or marriage equality or immigration, just look at what side the social conservatives are on, and it’s a fair bet that history will judge that side to be the wrong one. — tgirsch

Of course it sounds like cynical political [...]

So I saw Vertigo tonight. The cool thing for me (well, apart from seeing on the big screen a renowned film from a legendary director with a fantastic cast) was that, being set in San Francisco, it was chock full of local references - the Embarcadero, Fort Point, the Presidio, Eddy Street — things that [...]

Sometimes coincidence is a funny master. You may remember a few weeks back, at the party for Aunt B, Kate exposed me as a closet Styx fan* — well that very week, Amazon spammed me to mention they were having some sort of $7 or $8 CD sale, and lo and behold it included Kilroy [...]

Yup, as of today I’m a brown belt! Sort of a major milestone I suppose. A little over two years in, with two years to go towards black — I guess it’s a bit like becoming a junior in high school.
Well, I made it this far, the goal is in sight and there’s no [...]

There’s something delicious about using sudo to call schroot to chroot into etch32 to run IE6 over wine from amd64.
I can’t believe it works…

Forwarding from the Buddhist Peace Fellowship TN list:

== CONGRESS VOTES THIS WEEK ON CUTTING FUNDING TO THE SOA/ WHINSEC ==
June 18, 2007
SOA Watch has received confirmation that THIS WEEK Congress will vote on an amendment to close the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC. Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts will introduce an amendment to the [...]

OK, so back to the Californialog (or, for Cory, “Californialogue” : )
When we left off, it was Monday afternoon, and I’d just finished the Berkeley campus tour. I wish I’d had more time to explore the campus on my own, but I had a deadline — it was 3:00, and I had to be at [...]