- Spring 2012 Shuso Hossen
Some photos from this spring's Shuso Hossen, a ceremony in which our practice leader Soshin gave her first dharma talk.
- This Blog is PyPy-powered
My async MongoDB driver Motor now passes its test suite running in PyPy 1.9. To celebrate, I've switched my blog from CPython to PyPy! Update: I moved back to CPython 2.7. Although Motor and the rest of my blog's software appears to run [ ... ]
- "Digital Dharma"
I saw Digital Dharma last night at the Rubin Museum: Digital Dharma is E. Gene Smith's epic 50-year journey to find, preserve and digitize more than 20,000 volumes of ancient Tibetan text; a story of one man’s mission that became the [ ... ]
- 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 [ ... ]