Tao and words
The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
Thomas Merton
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Our correspondences… our intimacies
While I was doing some Spring Webcleaning a year ago, I coincidentally received a phone call from Nick Bantock about my long-moribund fan pages on his Griffin & Sabine trilogy. As I subsequently cleaned up the link rot in Where … Continue reading
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Tagged fountain pens, Griffin & Sabine, letters, paper, web
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Spring Webcleaning
Web nostalgia is sweeping over me. As I described in the previous post, Zen and the Art of Instellar Immanence, I recently chanced upon a link to one of my old Web essays from 1995 that had been mirrored on … Continue reading
Zen and the Art of Interstellar Immanence
…with apologies to Robert Pirsig. When I coined the phrase that is the title of this blog post in a 1995 essay, it was unique on the Web, at least to the extent one could judge back then from AltaVista. … Continue reading
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Tagged Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG, web, words, Zen
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“Soooo big!” Counting on bit.ly, Part III
In the two previous posts on this topic, I calculated that, all other things being equal, the pool of 62^6 = 56,800,235,584 six-character strings from which bit.ly is currently assigning shortened URLs has a projected “exhaustion date” somewhere around the … Continue reading