- 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
- Motor Internals: How I Asynchronized a Synchronous Library
How and why I wrote Motor, my asynchronous driver for MongoDB and Tornado.
- Introducing Motor, an asynchronous MongoDB driver for Python and Tornado
- Meditate NYC 2012
This is my fifth year photographing Meditate NYC, organized by the New York Buddhist Council since 2007. It's an all-day event in Manhattan where a dozen teachers share 20-minute talks. Full photo set.