Month: June 2014
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Meditations on Meditations – 1:2
MY FATHER (FROM MY OWN MEMORIES AND HIS REPUTATION) Integrity and manliness. (Hays, 1) Marcus’ lost his father at three. I am fortunate to have ever attended just one funeral. We can say what the average life expectancy is for our day and age only for those that die during it; perhaps the first person…
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Meditations on Meditations – 1:1
Introduction: This will be a series of blog posts, time permitting, in which I examine each chapter of Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations”, as translated by Gregory Hays, Meric Casaubon, and George Long. I will use Hays’ translation mainly, as I find it the most approachable. The posts will be personal and most likely wandering, like Aurelius’ writings.…
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Zen of Broken Code
“Words cannot even describe the multitude of design flaws in your body, and yet it is still the vessel of your mind; it is still your connection to this world. Production code is broken, but so is nature.” —@jordanorelli