Notes in Samsara

This time, Zhuhai.  Maybe it'll be better than I think. Sometimes it is.

I have long admired Steve Jobs from afar; I might have been near the Cupertino campus of Apple once upon a time, but I really don't r...

In a couple of days I'll be off to Zhuhai for business, which, as I understand it, has little to see historically relative to quite a ...

I haven't said anything prior to today on Barbara's recent posts on Tibet ( latest here .)  Mostly I think it's because we mut...

Once again, a post on Nathan's blog and my recent experience with Wing Chun has provided grist for the blog.  That post points to thi...

Humans do pretty strange things.  Many of them center around balls.   Many of them do not.  But regardless - or perhaps another instance o...

Some of the "greatest" movies ever made in their category, according to at least one or two  Western movie critics, don't get...

As of today, over $36,000 has been raised in something called the "Rama's Materials" campaign . And what's the payoff? ...

To an electrical engineer, a rectifier is a device that permits current to flow in only one direction; a.k.a., a big diode.  It'...

I generally like Brad Warner's blog posts; he's sincere, and he actually has some knowledge of what he's doing, even if there a...

And of course I fit in the same boat... I'm told by my wife that in general Chinese view "intellectual" pursuits ...

I'm thinking a bit more about the Shaolin/Buddhism/commercialism issue and Barbara's recent post here on this subject , and I ...

That's how I'd describe this recent article on  the Washington Post website on "Shaolin" films and "spirituality,...

Did Agatha Christie's fans go on to commit elaborate murders? Was Theodore Sturgeon influenced by Kilgore Trout? I dreamt last night ...

The man in the ranks of Tuthmose Ill's army of Armageddon was deluded about the importance of his death, but the man in a Chieftain t...

9/11 happened when my son was just over one month old.  To be honest, the memories and emotions of what happened that day have in me ...

Oddly enough - or perhaps not surprisingly - over the summer when my wife & son were in China, I found myself much shorter of time. ...

This post and the comment on Uku's blog pos t   it points to deserve a response.  They're right, but there's an aspect to mar...

Sometimes, your son's Nintendo DS becomes a plaything of paper wasps...sometimes there's a forest fire 60 miles away creatin...

And I haven't written a blog post! Nothing! Well, to catch up: My trip back from Athens was via Newark, and there was this hurrican...