Archive for April, 2011
Quitting Music Forever. (not)
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011Music. Music is amazing. You can hear it and feel it but can’t see it. (I can’t believe I keep linking to this song. It’s just so funny though) It’s a fairly universal language (although an A is considered 443 or 442 hz here in Europe, though its 440 in America…) and it’s beautifully mathematical. […]
Kinder Games
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011Today I swung on swings in the park. Someday soon I’ll have to take photos exclusively of the park. Maybe I’ll do that tonight! Night photos of a big playground will be sweet. As I was swinging, I remembered a game from my childhood. As kids we seemed to look for every opportunity to throw […]
Space Pirates! A History of Buddhist Physics.
Friday, April 22nd, 2011Austria is magical. (OK, so everything is magic) Austria! The Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, the founder of the Madhyamika school of Mahayana Buddhism struck my Buddhist Mind and Reality class quite dumb after elaborating on his proposal that there is no absolute truth, and by stating so, he was not proposing an absolute truth. This […]
Lonesome Wolf in Austria
Thursday, April 14th, 2011In ten days I will have been in Austria for a month. I am officially a resident of Weitra Stadt, I have a bank account and real bank card, I have and am presently wearing authentic leather pants, and I can tell the shop keepers that I’m just looking, though it may take me a […]
Austria: Two Weeks and Then Some
Friday, April 8th, 2011I’ve been here in Austria for a little more than 2 weeks. That’s what I might consider the appropriate length of time for a vacation if I were a fine working businessman type person. This would be the vacation that makes me quit my job. Thank goodness this is my real life and not […]
Keep on Running
Friday, April 1st, 2011Although I’ve only been here a week, I can’t help but find myself wondering, “is this where I belong? Will I stay here? What if I get a work visa and can stay indefinitely? Will I want that? Will I do it?” I love Austria, but I have to keep in mind that it is […]