dive into mark

Three apologies:

• Dave, I’m sorry I was rude to you. This town is big enough for the two of us.
• John, I’m sorry I cursed you. I’ll try to be a little more mature in my pushback in the future.
• Eric, I’m sorry I haven’t spoken to you in 10 years. I forgive you. Please forgive me.

7:27 PM:

• Dave: Keep on truckin. we’re all learning.”
• John: Ain’t no problem bubba.
• Eric: There are bits that we regret, yet those bits are part of who we are. … If we wish that they hadn’t happened, we in some way wish that we are not who we are now.

Forgiveness on Internet time.

Three resolutions:

• I will find new ways to show my family, girlfriend, friends, and other special people that I love them.
• I will figure out this happiness business.
• I will keep writing. Koans, poems, emails, letters, articles, blogs, books. Books, books, books. Lots of books.

Speaking of which, “Dive Into Python” 3.9 is out. Along with a host of reader-submitted bug fixes, it features new sections on unicode, searching for elements within an XML document, accessing attributes of XML elements, abstracting input sources, and standard input, output, and error. As always, it is completely free and available for download in six formats. Share and enjoy.

Three Zen quotes:

• The New Year’s Pause

  A simple exercise in foresight, yet nothing that you will ever do will be more important…

  Look at the road you’re on. Where do you see it leading? If you continue to follow this road that you have taken, how do you see your life evolving over the next five, ten, and twenty years? Who will you be? Where will you be? What will you see?

  A simple exercise to take your time with. Look clearly like a navigator reading a course and studying charts. The kind of knowledge that you’ll glean here is the beginning of wisdom, of enlightening, and no one can do it for you, except you.

  (Maverick Sutras, via Daily Zen)

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Um, mostly books.

Look, ma, ancient Roman porn [via Slate] Now on display in Pompeii. No, really. The BBC even claims it’s homosexual porn. “Tourist brochures will refer to the bath as the “Red Light Spa”, although they say it was most likely not formally a house of prostitution.” So it wasn’t client-server; more of a P2P arrangement.

(Meta note: Oh boy, that’s gonna rake in the disturbing search requests all year.)

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