mushin no shin

I just made my first financial contribution EVER to a major party candidate. Yeah, it creeped me out a little. But Bill Richardson is the first major party candidate I ever thought was actually right for the job. I use the phrase “right for the job” quite precisely. It doesn’t mean I think he’s my [...]

I love finding out a day before launching a major program that Microsoft’s insistance on asshatery and inability to follow simple specifications is going to break the whole damn paradigm.

It has been remarked that according to the HTML specification, the form data set should additionally contain the field foo with the value bar, according to [...]

Yet not so strange, if you understand his point of view. In Iran, you see, homosexuals are thought of as women trapped in male bodies. That’s why they offer free operations for those who want to change their sex
Interesting. While Iran remains clearly more homophobic than America — by orders of magnitude — it sounds [...]

A few people have posted about the fascinating film still playing at the Belcourt called The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, which I saw Friday night. I don’t have a lot to say about it but did want to make one observation.
Unfortunately I ‘m not entirely sure I have the right words [...]

Next time I go see a production that kicks as much ass as Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I’ll try not to wait until the final performance, which renders unhelpful to you my reporting of its awesomeness. Aww, well hell it’s not like you ever take my advice anyway.
Still, since I recently went through and [...]

Pro:

It would be good for me
Having been very busy and having kept late nights, I overslept every day this week and only did about half of my usual daily practice
I skipped last week due to the Buddhist festival
I will feel justified to reward myself with my usual post-yoga Chinese takeout for lunch

Con:

Yesterday’s Peace Walk left [...]

So last night, on the way home from seeing The King of Kong, one of the radio stations plays Pinball Wizard. Heh.

I should be doing something productive I suppose. I really should be putting coat #1 of the rag-on glazing on wall #2 in the parlor. But hell, it’s 9:00, I just had my weekly batch of tasty spicy vegetable whole wheat spaghetti, this time with a nice glass of pinot noir, and I think I’d [...]