Joe Cecil

Seeing That Frees vs. the MST3K Mantra

A random thought: How would Seeing That Frees relate to the Mystery Science Theater 3000 mantra reinterpreted as a mantra for life? That mantra is: "It's just a show, I should really just relax." I think they agree on the show part and partly on the

Vedanā, craving, clinging vs. attachment

The first three parts of Seeing That Frees use these terms vedanā, craving, and clinging. I haven't seen a comparable three-way distinction in the other books that I've read, but these concepts does correlate with another one I've read about before: Attachment. I think

What a Twitter bio can look like

I looked at five personal Twitter bios. This is what I notice about what's in them, what they're doing, and what they're not doing. The bios: 1. David Chapman 2. Charlie Awbery 3. Visakan Veerasamy 4. Michael Taft 5. Malcolm Ocean I see a

Bucket fill

Possibly favorite visual effect is the slow bucket fill. The recent Terra Nil trailer shows fire behaving in just this way. There's a point in the grass where the fire starts and it radiates out slowly and evenly in all directions. This gets really neat when there are

A shed

"The Life and Adventure of Shed Number XII" is a strange story. Here's the short version: 1. There's a pile of planks that became a shed. It's painted with a roman numeral XII unlike the other sheds with Arabic numerals (sheds 13

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