- Letter From Buddhist and Yoga Teachers in Support of the Occupy Movement
OWS sign. Photo: David Shankbone. Two awesome thirtysomething Buddhist teachers I've practiced with, Michael Stone in Toronto and Ethan Nichtern here in NYC, have published An Open Letter From Buddhist and Yoga Teachers in Support of [ ... ]
- Balance
My online dharma buddy and fellow Jiryu, Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler, writes: ...silence to noise, stillness to busyness, zazen to work, isn’t necessarily integration—it’s oscillation. So we talk about [ ... ]
- Myoji Sunim gravely ill
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis On of my favorite Zen masters in New York City, Myoji Sunim, is in the hospital. A message from her temple says, Myo Ji Sunim had a massive brain hemorrhage yesterday late afternoon and was brought to St. Luke's [ ... ]
- Against the new Google Reader UI
The update to Google Reader highlights a profound error in Google's interface updates: Each update decreases information density. With Google Reader's new interface, I can see a list of only 12 new articles. I subscribe to 115 blogs, so I [ ... ]
- Eido Roshi Resigns
Photo: Michael Dougan Eido Shimano Roshi has resigned his leadership of The Zen Studies Society, one of the oldest and most traditional Zen groups in the U.S., and his successor, Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi, has taken his place. She [ ... ]
- Pieter Hugo: "Permanent Error"
Photographs from an electronics dump in Ghana.
- My Tools
I've used a lot of software development tools since I first taught myself to program in high school (using Turbo C++ and Windows 3.1 — those were the days). Now I use emacs for quick tasks, but I spend most of my time in: PyCharm PyCharm [ ... ]
- Python Coroutines
David Beazley's Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency in Python is the best coroutine tutorial I've seen. It makes an essential distinction between generators, from which you pull data, like this: def squares(): for i in [ ... ]
- My photo show on the Lower East Side
Check out my photo show, titled "Strangers", at 54 Orchard St. The show opened October 20th and will be on display for about two months. More info on The Lo-Down.
- First post
I'm going to blog like it's 1999. People may come here primarily to read about Python, MongoDB, and other software topics, but I also intend to post occasionally on photography, Zen, and personal stuff -- but nothing icky.