… that if you hire people, even friends, to be policy/etc advisors, that you would listen to them rather than fire them if they don’t agree with your immediate worldview. Isn’t that the supposed idea of advisors (and of friends)? Amazing what gets in the way of that.
(and yes, an Eastwood vs Governator brouhahaha pumped up with action and hollywood could be amusing…)
Yes, it is about food…. hooray!
Friday I discovered (all hail google) a nearby restaurant that served nothing but brown rice sushi. I wanted to head over to a camera store nearby so Rev and I tried it for lunch. Small hole-in-the-wall place that totally lived up to the reputation of hole-in-the-wall places. All the vegetarian rolls I ordered were excellent: the asparagus, the amazingawesome umi, and something I have no idea what it was I ordered but it was star shaped. Very tasty and different and definitively seemed on the traditional side of sushi cuisine… I’ll be going back there.
Today I fired up my slow cooker for the first time and made myself a tasty split pea soup for coming lunches. I don’t think I had a grasp on how much this would make — I now have eight portions in my fridge/freezer, which is four weeks worth, woo! To quote Darth Vader: “All to easy.”
Oh heck, here’s a Darth Vader gratuitous but interesting link: Manga vs Comic adaptations of Star Wars.
A double feature today!
One, this video here for an upcoming machinima film is mildly amusing and technically pretty well done… really though I’m linking it for the title sequence which I think is just great.
In a different vein, here is the Foreward to AD&D 1st Edition, way back in 1978. Great read, for nostalgia and with chunks that still inform (and are great reminders).
This video here, besides being amusing, reminded me a bit of the animation style from the Triplets of Bellville. Have a watch!
What do you do when you get this much snow?
(Image by Dave)
Why, build a wall, of course!
Is it me, or does that wall look climbing-wall-ish? Hmmm…
Ah, alas. After 31 years my beloved CN Tower has been surpassed in height, with the Burj Dubai building going beyond the 533m mark (onto a potential max height of 818m??! Ca-razy) last September. 30+ years, that’s a good long time to hold onto the record (and let us not forget Dar Robinson jumping off the tower not once, but twice)… rock on.
Gary Gygax, creator of the D&D game, passed away today. All the jokes come easy… “He failed his Save vs Death.” And he might well have been amused by them. He created a game and founded a hobby that has been enjoyed by millions and continues to influence, expand and amuse. For your creativity, your drive, your courage to follow your dreams, and to the many worlds and adventures you launched, we salute you.
Ten rounds of silence in honour of the man.
The word power is an interesting one, possessing many definitions (over 30) spanning precise meanings in physics to the metaphysical. In the world of being, the word power is often collapsed with the idea or meaning of force. Yet really force is what is present when power is not. Power is effortless, achieving intentions without force or struggle.
The same thing arises in the martial arts. One can be very forceful, but true power comes much as the old Chinese saying “one pound moves a thousand pounds.” The soft power of an Iron Palm break, or of a tai chi practitioner’s strike or push, both examples of this.
It’s no wonder to me (and I find it very interesting) that many of the great masters of old are remembered as being wise and calm, and why there are great stories of masters from such places as Mt Wudang or Mt Song and the Shaolin Temple. When you put those two together, or when one leads to the discovery of the other, well, it just seems natural what would arise inside that: Effortless Power in both realms.
I’ve gotten many offers of a whole variety of things over the years (as my spam box can attest to), but this is the first time I’ve received (though postal mail, no less) an offer of winning a pre-paid cremation.
