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“Let not a person revive the past
Or on the future build his hopes;
For the past has been left behind
And the future has not been reached.
Instead with insight let him see
Each presently arisen state;
Let him know that and be sure of it,
Invincibly, unshakably.
Today the effort must be made;
Tomorrow Death may come. who knows?
No bargain with Mortality
Can keep him and his hordes away,
But one who dwells thus ardently,
Relentlessly, by day, by night —
It is he, the Peaceful Sage has said,
Who has had a single excellent night.”

~ Bhaddekaratta Sutta

I kinda got a mind to work through Euclid's Elements—The definitive work on geometry for over two millennia—problem by problem.

I figured I'll post them here for you people to enjoy

Book I, Proposition 1:
Construct an equilateral triangle given one side.

#euclid #geometry #math

[Śāriputra] "Goddess, what prevents you from transforming yourself out of your female state?"

[Goddess] "Although I have sought my "female state" for these twelve years, I have not yet found it. Reverend Śāriputra, if a magician were to incarnate a woman by magic, would you ask her, ’What prevents you from transforming yourself out of your female state?’"

[Śāriputra] "No! Such a woman would not really exist, so what would there be to transform?"

[Goddess] "Just so, reverend Śāriputra, all things do not really exist. Now, would you think, ’What prevents one whose nature is that of a magical incarnation from transforming herself out of her female state?’"

[Thereupon, the goddess employed her magical power to cause the elder Śāriputra to appear in her form and to cause herself to appear in his form. Then the goddess, transformed into Śāriputra, said to Śāriputra, transformed into a goddess] "Reverend Śāriputra, what prevents you from transforming yourself out of your female state?"

[And Śāriputra transformed into the goddess, replied,] "I no longer appear in the form of a male! My body has changed into the body of a woman! I do not know what to transform!"

[The goddess continued] "If the elder could again change out of the female state, then all women could also change out of their female states. All women appear in the form of women in just the same way as the elder appears in the form of a woman. While they are not women in reality, they appear in the form of women. With this in mind, the Buddha said, ’In all things, there is neither male nor female.’"

[Then, the goddess released her magical power and each returned to their ordinary form. She then said to him] "Reverend Śāriputra, what have you done with your female form?"

[Śāriputra] "I neither made it nor did I change it."

[Goddess] "Just so, all things are neither made nor changed, and that they are not made and not changed, that is the teaching of the Buddha."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/25/global_telcos_hacked/
Welp

There are many reasons Emilio Estevez is better than either of the Sheens.

This movie is a big one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnmukLSs2rQ

It's like the anti-swap. We no longer give a fuck about resources, there's a circa 1999 me somewhere crying into Kernighan & Ritchie's book.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
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# /tmp mounted in RAM
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0

Decided to change up the old wallpapers.

You gotta hand it to chirality

being ADHD means I've read the first 1~2/3rds of a LOT of books. I hope there was nothing too interesting in the last chapters.

An orchestral reenactment of what the lactic bateria are up to in my oven right now
https://youtu.be/tCENXv13JHk

Rise my microbial legions! Rise from your grave! Mwahaha!

Sometimes it's a photograph in the old way they used to be made for zines and punk band flyers and hacker mags at the headshop and if you stare to hard at the black stain of ink and developing fluid you might fall forever into June of some 1998 you can still smell but never touch the hot sun on your skin the deep deep impossible blue of the sky as a lone aircraft left lazy contrails and a dull roar in it's wake as it flew to some elsewhere not meant for poor kids in the decaying drainage canals of the suburbs on second hand real imitation bmx bicycles with the rattle of spray cans and too loud pop punk on the stereo with eight d cell batteries

Mood
https://youtu.be/0RXdd0pCJ9Q

Sitting in this Peruvian restaurant watching the old man who owns the joint staring at his remote trying to figure out why the stereo is playing "My Humps" when all he wants to do is watch the ladies football (USA v Thailand).