Archive for the 'Rumination' Category

海辺のカフカ

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

As the clump of pages remaining thins, I grow sad and nostalgic. I don’t want to leave this precious world behind. Miss Saeki, Komura Library, the painting of the beach, Oshima, his cabin in the woods, the boy named crow (my shadow), Nakata, Hoshino, Sakura … Murakami has somehow played this world into my life. [...]

As Is Often Misunderstood

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Understanding and love are not two things, but just one …… When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way [...]

Anything Will Do

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Expanse of Litang sky. Bluer than here, that’s for sure. But wider? The narrowing scope of mind squeezed by life here – that same sheet of heaven folds far and small, here out of sight.

KThinkBat, KDE, And You

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

I’ve worked using Arch Linux for a while without a battery monitor app, and finally decided to cure myself of this issue today. (I’ve dealt with this problem before.) I chose KThinkBat as my kicker applet of choice. As expected it didn’t work with my Compaq Presario 1720 out of the box. Same ACPI culprits [...]

Junebug

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Junebug captures for me the essence of return. The return not merely a retracing of footsteps, but a transcendence of thick curtains of carven emotion, the return to an old tree stump that, weathered, still bears a lover’s promise, nearly as indelible as the mark of memory. The still images brim with latent energy, or [...]


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