Think you’re gonna find Buddhism in Steeler Nation? I didn’t. When I moved to Pittsburgh, I didn’t expect to find many meditation centers; certainly not the diversity and convenience that I had enjoyed back in Boston.

I easily found Pittsburgh Shambhala, but Tibetan Buddhism is radically different than the Theravada Buddhism that speaks to me, and ( Read more... )

Work rant. Only interesting to geeks.

I’m working at a client site. Last week I had to ask the person who runs their testing team whether they test a particular feature before releasing their software.

The staffperson figured the best way to find out would be to do a text search on the files they use for testing. Nothing could be simpler, right?
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Who is your favorite celebrity? You’re kidding, right? Do people really live like that? How sad for them.
  Who is your least favorite? Well, this week’s Five isn’t going to be very interesting, now, is it?
  Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life? Okay, at least I can answer this one. Probably the most notable person ( Read more... )

Recently, I've tried to be a lot more supportive and (specifically) a lot less judgemental about stuff. Unfortunately, there's one group of people that I can't stop being judgemental about. So it makes sense to talk about it here.

There's a circle of people I know who share some of the same interests as me. It's not a single group, or even specific ( Read more... )