On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Fee, Patrick J (US SSA) < [email protected]> wrote:
> As a Lifetime Baseball fan (married over home plate back in 2000), > career-long web-programmer (I remember when NYPHP was first getting > started), and long time stalker of this list, I second Kristina's "Love It". > > As programmers, we spend a lot of time using metaphors to explain what we > are doing in a way easily understood by others. I've even explained the > ins-and-outs of MX records by using a "delivery to an upscale apartment > building" metaphor. But the baseball metaphor and Tao reference are best > I've seen in a while... both for their simplicity and universal (at least in > North America) appeal. > > Ah, not just in North America. Baseball is popular in Japan, Central America, the Carribean, etc etc because people like it, because it's *good*. One of those exports the US can feel proud of, unlike, e.g., McDonald's. As for Tao and all that, don't get me started, it's a favorite subject. My sig is excerpted from a poem that has several published translations, known where I come from as "The Identity of Relative and Absolute", by the 8th century Chinese Ch'an (Zen) Master Shitou. It's in the Zen tradition, but has a strong Taoist influence. You know the deal: Ordinary mind is Tao. Have a great weekend. -- David Mintz http://davidmintz.org/ The subtle source is clear and bright The tributary streams flow through the darkness
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