Not my original funny thought, but a funny story I heard in China. A Chinese Buddhist teacher used to tell his friends that he thought Jesus Christ was a manifestation of Guan Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. He realized that many of his Christian friends were very...
I’m surprised that the “Living Will” I signed did not offer me the option I really wanted. What I really wanted is that, in the event that I’m incapacitated, either due to disease or accident, I want my body parts replaced with bionic implants...
I once read that at the height of the Japanese real estate bubble in the late 1980s, the land occupied by the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was worth more than all the land in all of California. If I were the Emperor of Japan, I would have sold the palace and bought...
Many years ago, when I was still a half-starving graduate student, I attended a talk at Sun Microsystems by one of the Sutherland brothers (I can’t remember which one, I think it was Ivan). Mr Sutherland started his talk by asking, with a show of hands, how many...
