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3 Podcasts:
 1. GD_07-12-07_Guided_Meditation_Ajahn_Chanda .. (played 8 times)
2. RD_04-12-08_Santikaro_Guided_Sit.mp3 (played 7 times)
3. IN_12-03-06_Intro_Wkshp_2__Guided_Practice .. (played 7 times)
Content:
Growing vmware disk size - for infants
I was trying insanely complicated things to make this happen. In reality, the process is dead simple and nothing to be feared:
Step One: Grow the size of the vm from the point of vmware workstation (i.e. from the host’s point of view). This only tells vmware how much room to give the [...]
strange infrastructure
mighty efforts to fix leaks in NYC water system:
The city has enlisted six deep-sea divers who are living for more than a month in a sealed 24-foot tubular pressurized tank complete with showers, a television and a Nerf basketball hoop, breathing air that is 97.5 percent helium and 2.5 percent oxygen, [...]
right mindfulness
this might be the most important thing I’ve ever read:
It might be assumed that we are always aware of the present, but this is a mirage. Only seldom do we become aware of the present in the precise way required by the practice of mindfulness. In ordinary consciousness the mind begins a cognitive process with [...]
Synecdoche, NY cured me of ever wanting to see another movie ever again
I read in a review that Synecdoche, NY was like Being John Malkovich, only more so. It was the movie I most wanted to blow my quarterly movie budget on. I’m very sorry. It isn’t entertaining or rewarding in any way. Add to that that it is completely indecipherable. [...]
A bold statement indeed.
The coming new world of Burp Proxy:
I often talk to people about their experience with web scanning products, and these are the complaints I hear:
* They are too slow, and provide little feedback or control over what they are doing during scans.
* [...]
The Mind Makes The World
I wrote last week about helpful tools for getting rid of unwholesome mind states. The tools require some practice, of course, but they work… except when they don’t.
When I wrote those down last week, I didn’t fully understand the idea. This week’s Common Ground lecture helped me realize the profound change one might [...]
Sunday Custody Issues
I rode my bike to meditation last night. I caught a few snowflakes on my tongue. My cotton clothes betrayed me. After I passed through a dark Langford Park, a car came screaming around the curve as I crossed the street. It was clear she did not intend to stop at [...]
Iran, the regional superpower
Robert Baer, ex CIA agent and the inspiration for George Clooney’s character in Syriana, gave a speech at the Commonwealth Club of California about Iran. Have a listen. It bent some of my understandings about the middle east.
Iran holds many cards: Ability to remove 55% of world’s oil supply from [...]
Shotgun
That is Jimi Hendrix playing backup on the far left.
Lies I have told
My cousin Andy reminded me of a visit he made to our house, probably in 1977 or so:
We were visiting you at Chatham Rd. I was sharing your room. As a bed, your family put a box spring in the room for me.
We arrived late and had only enough time to go to bed.
You were [...]
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