- Ordination Ceremony at the Village Zendo
This April I photographed a tokudo, an ordination ceremony at the Village Zendo for my friends Kaku (pictured above), Tokuyu, and Oshin. It began in the early morning with elder priests shaving the novices' heads. Then we held a ceremony [ ... ]
- Review of "The Social Organization of Zen Practice" by David L. Preston
I read this while I was practicing at Zen Mountain Center in 2003; it describes the effect of peer pressure on new Zen students.
- Adorable!
I had to post this adorable photo of Oshin and Seizan, two students at the Village Zendo.
- 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.