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Pretending to have a Japanese garden
This photo and the following bulleted paragraph are from my About page, which deconstructs the title of this blog, in this case the middle word “garden”: ● “…garden…” The dry landscape garden (kare-sansui) at Ryoan-ji temple in Kyoto is the … Continue reading
Posted in Art | Design, Tao | Zen, Tsuboniwa
Tagged balcony garden, Japanese garden, meditation, pocket garden, water, Zen
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The bitly dea(r)th watch
This is my fifth post about bitly (bit.ly, bitly.com), the URL-shortening service, in the past 18 months. The first three, written in early July 2010, were focused on two simple questions: (1) how large was bitly’s pool of unique hash-string … Continue reading
Riders of the Last Spark
[This was originally posted on September 16, 2011, but had to be completely and imperfectly re-written following the crash of a MySQL server at my Web hosting service.] The allusion in the title of this post is pretty simple. But … Continue reading
Posted in Travel, Tsuboniwa
Tagged ocean, Pacific, photography, Tofino, water, wedding
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The Mind’s Compound Eye
[This was originally posted on September 8, 2011, but had to be "reconstructed" following the crash of a MySQL server at my Web hosting service.] About a decade ago, Canadian artist Angela Bulloch, now based in London and Berlin, created … Continue reading