(Untitled)- June 26, 2007 Getting Emotional About Silk: Guqin Hours with John Thompson in Weehawken, New Jersey Before I left San Diego I got a random message on Facebook from UCSD music grad student Alex Khalil. He informed me that I had just missed events surrounding guqin maker Wang Peng's visit to campus. He blamed limited publicity. I blamed finals. Still, neither despaired, for each of us had discovered the other.http://www.abackpackandakeyboard.com/2007/06/getting-emotional-about-silk-guqin.html (Untitled)- June 25, 2007 It Can Be Done! Thoughts on Being Carless in Southern California Before I moved to San Diego for grad school in September 2006, I had many discussions with friends about whether or not I could continue being carless in SoCal. I did not want to buy a car, but most people said I would have to give in. Only one friend was adamant about staying true to my cyclist spirit and convinced me that, evenhttp://www.abackpackandakeyboard.com/2007/06/it-can-be-done-thoughts-on-being.html (Untitled)- June 15, 2007 50,000 Views: What People Looked At On Flickr I swear this post has nothing to do with flickr being down in China. That event just happened to coincide almost perfectly with my 50,000th photo view. I told myself I'd write a blog post as soon as I crossed that magic number. Instead, I finished a stats project, wrote a survey , and had a finance exam. Now freedom has arrived.... 50,000 viewshttp://www.abackpackandakeyboard.com/2007/06/50000-views-what-people-viewed-on.html (Untitled)- June 12, 2007 Statistics Cross Post from the IRPS Student Blog Here's a post I did about Craig McIntosh, my third statistics professor at IRPS.http://www.abackpackandakeyboard.com/2007/06/statistics-cross-post-from-irps-student.html (Untitled)- June 12, 2007 No Trace Living an Honest, Simple Life From a Note My Two Meter Israeli Theravada Monk Teacher Gave Me "When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself." When we practice, our mind is calm and quite simple. But usually our mind is very busy and complicated, and it is difficult to be concentrated on what we are doing. This is becausehttp://www.abackpackandakeyboard.com/2007/06/no-trace-living-honest-simple-life-from.html |