Here’s part of the road (I-25) from Colorado to Santa Fe, New Mexico. It looks like a painting, but it’s not.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 41)
“Remember, remember, the fifth of November.”
~ from the movie, V for Vendetta
This is a photo of Denali from about 70-90 miles south on Highway 3. I think I was just before or after the gas station in Willow when I pulled over and took this photo.
This is all still very much a work in progress, but here’s an example Automated GUI Testing (AGT) script that I developed yesterday.
Coach Billy Donovan called Dosunmu “fearless’’ once again.
“My motto is just fear God, so I don’t fear anything but God,’’ Dosunmu said. “When I go out there and compete, I trust in what I can do.”
~ a quote from this page
I like this description of the proper mindfulness technique:
“Not judging what you see, not considering it good or bad, just seeing what you see, with interest and curiosity. Staking out your inner experience, like a wildlife photographer in an exotic location, waiting for the moment to snap.”
It comes from the “Base” recording under the “Waiting Around” category of the Buddhify app. (Sorry, I don’t know the name of the speaker.)
Dateline November 2, 2010, somewhere in Alaska: Lots of snow this morning. I'm curious to see if it affects the senate race between Joe Miller (Republican primary winner, Tea Party candidate), Lisa Murkowski (Republican primary loser, incumbent, write-in candidate), and whoever the other person is. And there goes someone jogging in the snow and dark.
I just ran across this image, which was my first attempt at a cover for my book, Functional Programming, Simplified. (Happy Belated Halloween.)
A “vote” sign in Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1, 2018.
The crazy thing about moving so many times is that I just had to go outside to see what apartment number I live in, so I could order something from Amazon.
~ November 1, 2011
I saw this statue of a child, a dog, and a mask at the Foothills Hospital (Boulder Community Hospital) in Boulder, Colorado on October 28, 2020.
An orange sky at night in Broomfield, Colorado. I think this was taken in March, 2017.
As a quick note, I started using Selenium again recently, and wrote about it on the Valley Programming site, in an article titled, Testing web applications with Selenium, Scala 3, and ScalaTest.
As a brief note today, I just created this little Unix/Linux shell script that I named tarquick, and it lets me quickly create a tar/gz backup of one directory. It does a lot of the tar work for you, and all you have to do is specify an optional directory name:
If you think about it, it’s awesomely, amazingly wonderful just to be alive! It’s a wonderful gift, and especially on a beautiful spring day like today.
But it took me several years of meditation practice and a heart attack before I really got it that just to be alive is awesome. As I was walking out of the hospital I thought, “Wow! I could be dead. The rest of my life is just a gift.” And then I thought, “Well, it always has been a gift from the very beginning, and I never noticed it until it was almost gone.”
The Zen teacher Kobun Chino once said in a sesshin talk that when you realize how precious your life is, and that it is completely your responsibility how you manifest it and how you live it, that is such a big responsibility that “such a person sits down for a while.”
~ a few paragraphs from this story by Zen teacher Blanche Hartman, who was impermanently here on Earth from 1926 to 2016.
“Laundry becomes much more interesting when you’re getting ready to go on vacation.”
~ Alvin Alexander, 2013 :)
"Enlightenment of the wave". From the book, Zen Speaks, Shouts of Nothingness. The book is filled with wonderful cartoons like this.
When I first read the text in this image, it brought a few tears to my eyes. When I used to get up and make coffee, our dog Zeus used to come into the kitchen and make stretching moves like this. I came to think of this morning ritual as him saying, “Hey, how you doing? Did you sleep well? What’s on the agenda for today?”
~ image from this facebook page
