Nov. 15th, 2008

randy_byers: (shiffman)
So if you were looking for six-foot lengths of plastic pipe that would fit over standard rebar, where would you go? I'm looking for something to use as posts for a frame around the raspberries, and bamboo rots too quickly. The rebar is sunk in the ground to hold the posts.

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Nov. 15th, 2008 12:53 pm
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There's a Buddhist temple in our neighborhood called Nalanda West. I can't look at it without thinking delenda est, as in Carthago delenda est. Hm, I always thought it meant "Carthage has been destroyed," but Wikipedia tells me it actually means "Carthage must be destroyed." Even better! Because what I got to thinking as I passed by the temple today is whether something Zen might be gleaned from my free association. I always thought "delenda" must at root mean something like "deleted" or "erased" or "made void." I'm sure the conjugation is wrong, but could we imagine a Roman Buddhist temple named Ego Delenda Est?

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