We read Jay Garfield's book, _Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self_ (following a couple of weeks of reading classical Buddhist views on anātman, and Evan Thompson's _Why I Am Not a Buddhist_)
September 28, 2023 at 9:23 PM
We read Jay Garfield's book, _Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self_ (following a couple of weeks of reading classical Buddhist views on anātman, and Evan Thompson's _Why I Am Not a Buddhist_)
This is the start of some kind of awful koan: If an academic submits a grant application to a federal agency and no one reads it, is the project worthy of funding?
September 27, 2023 at 3:42 PM
This is the start of some kind of awful koan: If an academic submits a grant application to a federal agency and no one reads it, is the project worthy of funding?
I am generally okay with houseplants at home, but my office plants are frequently neglected. I've saved them with self-watering planters. You fill a reservoir with water, and a wick draws moisture into the soil. You can ignore them for a long time this way, but they stay happy.
August 22, 2023 at 12:58 PM
I am generally okay with houseplants at home, but my office plants are frequently neglected. I've saved them with self-watering planters. You fill a reservoir with water, and a wick draws moisture into the soil. You can ignore them for a long time this way, but they stay happy.
100% this. I got a lego bonsai kit last spring, and I spent a few minutes after class each day snapping a few bricks together. Game changer.
August 22, 2023 at 12:55 PM
100% this. I got a lego bonsai kit last spring, and I spent a few minutes after class each day snapping a few bricks together. Game changer.
An electric water kettle is something I use daily. For tea, coffee, or instant oatmeal or noodles if I need food and forgot to bring a lunch. A yoga mat, a comfy chair, and a little area rug. Floor/desk lamps to avoid awful fluorescent lighting. Plants in a self-watering pot so they don't die.
August 22, 2023 at 12:54 PM
An electric water kettle is something I use daily. For tea, coffee, or instant oatmeal or noodles if I need food and forgot to bring a lunch. A yoga mat, a comfy chair, and a little area rug. Floor/desk lamps to avoid awful fluorescent lighting. Plants in a self-watering pot so they don't die.
Triceratops and/or stegosaurus
August 20, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Triceratops and/or stegosaurus
I just finished reading Cloud Cuckoo Land and the Southern Reach trilogy. Any suggestions for a novel based on the fact that I really liked those stories?
August 9, 2023 at 11:59 AM
I just finished reading Cloud Cuckoo Land and the Southern Reach trilogy. Any suggestions for a novel based on the fact that I really liked those stories?