Highlights of a "Truly Important" Life

"[A]lmost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."
--Steve Jobs, 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford University

Since

Recently, Daily Beast figured how various meals and desserts equate to various forms of exercise -- including sex.

It turns out that it takes three hours and 40 minutes of sexytime to work off one Chipotle Steak Burrito.

However, a vegetarian

13 Posters: Buy Nothing Day. 13 Things to Do instead of "Black Friday."

Boulder, a dog-loving town, has dog-fearing laws.

Born and raised. I love it here.

Via Fidos:

Key Update: via the good folks at at Silk Soy:

[Dear Waylon]

Just wanted to chime in quickly regarding your [article]. We appreciate your level of objectivity, and the fact that...

The Environment is Our Environment.

Kudos and thanks, VP Biden.

Video:

It's his fault.

"This ad treats a serious tragedy like a football game or chess match, with points to be won merely by staying on the offense."

For all those who like to say: "It's not BP's fault, it's our fault"...you got the second half right.

I want my Oil!

BP: "They'll need us again!"

The only thing this bloody brilliant video gets wrong is that BP's not losing billions -- they're losing only a tiny fraction of what they make in a...

The Feng Shui is Whack

I'm not sure what my favorite thing is about this review: that the critique of this Boulder, Colorado café is highlighted by the charge that Atlas Purveyors is crowded (surely, a sign of success and doing things right for any business?) or that it's Feng...

Click above photo for the NY Times' slideshow.

A Video and Petition: Take Action

Can We Really Move Beyond Petroleum?

A Sierra Club video and petition to move President Obama to act.

A Satirical video re: Greenwashing via The Onion.

Via the Pepsi Refresh Project:

Looks like Mallika Chopra--

the founder of Intent.com, a fast-growing site...

It's Up to Us--Take Action Here, Today.

"Federal Defendants have spent the better part of the last decade treading water, and avoiding their obligations under the Endangered Species Act... We simply cannot afford to waste another decade." ~ U.S. District Court Judge James Redden to Counsel of Record in National...

"Foulness Meditation"

"The Lord Buddha advised those who are ardent on attaining Nibbana to contemplate the body with its impurities..."

"VARIATIONS AND OTHER TECHNIQUES FOR OVERCOMING SEXUAL LUST"

I'm a "Dharma Brat"--an American Buddhist. My parents met and fell in love back in '72, at a seminar...

This morning, in the eco-minded valley that is Boulder, Colorado, I drank some fair-trade organic coffee, hopped on my bike and, with my dog (who I adopted from the Humane Society), went downtown--where local, independent businesses proliferate.

Returning, I came across a sign on a neighbor's lawn that looked...

Yes! Woohoo! I'm psyched! That's just what I, as a citizen of Boulder, Colorado, say when waking up each morning.

As for this...

Tiger Woods: Mea Culpa, Buddha.

Emphasizing a return to his Buddhist tradition, Tiger vows to Bring Obstacles to the Path.

Sorry, Brit Hume.

Seems that forgiveness, humiliation, anger, adultery, raising a...

See-through Cancer?

I *knew* there was a reason I hate plastic-wrapped pastries in cafes..!

...Oh, right, PVC=cancer and other evils for our health, and that of our...