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Support Ornoth’s 2024 Pan-Massachusetts Challenge charity ride!

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This August I rode my 18th Pan-Mass Challenge — my fourth as a remote rider — to raise money for lifesaving cancer research and treatment through the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund.

Although the ride is done, fundraising doesn't close until the end of September, so there's still time to sponsor my ride.

As a member of Team Kermit, the money I raise will directly underwrite pediatric brain and spinal tumor research through the Jared Branfman Sunflowers for Life Fund.

Please take a moment now to help me raise over $7,000 in 2024. Thank you so much!

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Book 'Em, Danno

The Experience of Samadhi: An In-depth Exploration of Buddhist Meditation

I’ve been burnt out on dhamma books for a number of years, feeling – justifiably – that after a certain point, reading about dhamma has diminishing returns, and what’s truly important is putting what you’ve learned into practice. But circumstances ensured that these five titles made my reading list. Here’s some capsule reviews of my dhamma reading from earlier this year.

Richard Shankman’s “The Experience of Samadhi”

The jhanas — esoteric states of heightened concentration – have perplexed me since my 2007 reading of the Buddha’s Middle Length Discourses. Although they are emphasized in a huge number of Buddhist suttas, there’s lots of disagreement about what they are, how to achieve them in meditation practice, and how important they are. Shankman’s book was recommended to me by Maripos »more

Binary Digits

Struble's Assembler Language Programming

Say you were a young college student taking a programming class, and your aging computer science professor’s first assignment was for each student to write a program to print out their name and telephone number.

That wouldn’t be the least bit sus, now would it?

Apparently, back in 1984 it wasn’t! Lemme tell you a story…

I was recently bedridden with both a back injury and my first case of Covid. And having already purged many of my old books, I really had to stretch (metaphorically, of course) to find something to entertain myself with.

One book that followed me through my migrations – from Maine to (five different locations in) Massachusetts, then Pittsburgh, and finally Texas – was a college textbook that was highly cherished by most of the CS majors I knew back then: George Str »more

2024 Pan-Mass Challenge Reimagined

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This is just a placeholder to direct you to my 2024 Pan-Mass Challenge Ride Report, for the full details of this year's remote "Reimagined" PMC ride. As always, my lengthy writeup is supplemented with photos, videos, maps, and GPS logs.

This year, I also created the following 4½-minute summary montage. I hope you enjoy it!



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2024-08-19

Enjoying a 6-minute sunshower in the middle of Sunday's ride.

2024-08-11

Pre-dawn rollout to avoid Texas' August heat. Daybreak on the road to Volente. Quick flyby of downtown Austin's skyline. Another sunrise found me on the new trail extension to Manor. Crossing the river on the historic Montopolis Bridge with downtown Austin in the background.
Austin currently:

Clear 21°C wind N 5 km/h
Air Quality Moderate (54)



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Added the image and link to the nearby traffic webcam at Mopac & Far West.
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Book 'Em, Danno (2070 words)
I’ve been burnt out on dhamma books for a number of years, feeling – justifiably – that after a certain point, reading about dhamma has diminishing return…
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2024 Pan-Mass Challenge Reimagined (128 words)
This is just a placeholder to direct you to my 2024 Pan-Mass Challenge Ride Report, for the full details of this year's remote "Reimagined" PMC ride. As always,…
Posted Tue Aug 20th 2024