I went to Auburn over the weekend to help my dad move some things and visited with some friends. We got talking about Robert M. Pirsig's notion of arete, and a friend brought up this story (my retelling ( Read more... )

The digital prints of the Buddhist tapestry showing the wrathful gods are not bright enough.

Namaste

Breaking Bad.

That's some Old Man Power right there.

Namaste

If there were such a thing as bad luck ...

... My apartment bedroom flooded in a freak accident. ( Read more... )

Reposted from princeoffishes http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

Evolution gone wild, man.

Namaste

For those who know what Pair Programming is: http://www.cenqua.com/pairon/?epicfailRead more... )

Over the weekend, I had moved to another part of Atlanta (Decatur) to be closer to martial arts class. I underestimated the space that I have ( Read more... )

The week after the solstice, before New Year's seem to be the time to gain new insights about oneself, and through that, a sliver of reality. Seems the realizations come naturally, unforced. (And then people post them up on LJ ;-)

Better, I say, than making new year resolutions that are never acted upon.

Namaste

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One day ... Intel chief executive Paul Otellini also showed off a prototype 80-core chip, which he said would be able to handle a terabyte of data every second, with each individual processor running at 3.16 Gigahertz. He said the chip would power massive data centres of the future. (New Scientist)
... we will see Massively Multicore Processors. To ( Read more... )