My wife and I are in the process of refinancing our mortgage. This is a slow process involving a bunch of paper. We don’t have a subprime loan or anything similar but are taking advantage of an act of congress and interest rates below 5% to save some...

When people talk about Burning Man, they are generally obligated to speak about the art that occurs there. People build large, intricate, and amazing art pieces (and tiny, insignificant, and funny pieces as well!) for Burning Man. That said, the...

I am a little late on posting on the last day of Dharmapalooza 2009. It was a long day with the travel to Denver, the flight to Oakland, and then the shuttle home so I didn’t manage to post it during the same day. Originally, the third day events...

I found this blog post today. The author visited Kannonji, the Buddhist space in Second Life that I’ve discussed recently, and found it disturbing, titillating, and disgusting, seemingly in equal measures. While a few of the criticisms of Second Life...

Stuart Davis (with his man purse) and a friend Dharmapalooza 2009 Day 2 started at a pretty sedate time of 9:30 AM. This gave me time to walk the mile to the space, getting a rare coffee along the way (zen sit + air travel + morning = double...