- The Pacific Crest Trail
- Review of "The Snow Leopard" by Peter Matthiessen
- This Blog is MongoDB 2.2-powered
This blog has been running on my experimental MongoDB driver, Motor, since June. But in case that wasn't cutting-edge enough, I'm now running it on MongoDB 2.2 release candidate 2. This is what I do for excitement.
- San Francisco
A couple photos I took in San Francisco last year. The first from Point Lobos, the site of the Sutro Baths, one of the few North American ruins. The second of my friend Snoo in The Mission.
- Alcatraz
Last June I visited Alcatraz, in the bay off San Francisco, with my friend Snoo. I can't recommend it enough. On the downside, the tour guide's spiel romanticizes the violence and death that marked Alcatraz until it was shut down in 1963. My [ ... ]
- Zen And The Body Politic
I'm re-posting this article I wrote for the Village Zendo Journal in October 2008, about canvassing for Obama with my friends Kim and Myoshin. It was an ideal moment in the Obama / McCain race: the nominees were selected and the parties were [ ... ]
- Review of "The Evolution of God" by Robert Wright
The Evolution of God, 2009 by Robert Wright, has two big ideas. Convincing: Our ideas of gods or God evolve in a social and political context. When we see gain in warfare, we imagine a vengeful God, but when our interests lie in [ ... ]
- Back From Zen Camp
I got back Sunday from two weeks at the Village Zendo's summer retreat; we did an 8-day sesshin and a weeklong precepts study. I practice shikantaza, and although the word means "just sitting," there is some method to it. Indeed, our study [ ... ]
- Zen Camp
I'll be on retreat with the The Village Zendo through August 13. Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh, Here I am at Camp Bodhisattva All this zazen gives me contusions but I think I'm really tackling my delusions
- Motor: Four Strategies For Maintainability