Theme by the name of Tones from Belchfire, and wallpaper from the very beautiful artwork of Huke (or is that the character name?) courtesy of a fantastic waller at Animepaper. The picture looks nice and widescreen here thanks to my fancy external monitor. That green thingy is actually my desktop post-it thingy that I don’t really know how to hide yet.
Yeah, so I reformatted my laptop so it’s all nice and squeaky clean… But it still lags playing flash Tetris.
Well I’ve promised myself not to talk politics any more but as a joint actsci-finance major this is really interesting to me.
http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/28036/84/
He certainly knows how to run a business.
Off a manga oneshot by Kotonoha (I love you so) and called, unsurprisingly, “The End of the World”, by Inio Asano.
The taskbar, etc. is Vendetta, by someone I don’t remember, from a site I barely recall. Actually I just wanted something black to go with the wallpaper. The gunnery doesn’t have anything to do with the manga.
Found something good -
Don’t fear god,
Don’t worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure
(Philodemus, Herculaneum Papyrus, 1005, 4.9-14).
Fantastic.
Read the entire (Wikipedia) article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapharmakos>
and the one about Epicureanism
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurean>
What’s interesting is what the Epicureans pursue – “to live free from fear”, and fear has many definitions – not phobias; and “tranquility”.
“Ataraxia”, cutting from the Wiki article – For the Epicureans, ataraxia was synonymous with the only true happiness possible for a person. It signifies the state of robust tranquility that derives from eschewing faith in an afterlife, not fearing the gods because they are distant and unconcerned with us, avoiding politics and vexatious people, surrounding oneself with trustworthy and affectionate friends and, most importantly, being an affectionate, virtuous person, worthy of trust.
So lesson learnt: stay away from annoying people and politics.
