I’ve been in net hibernation and cleaning out some cobwebs for the past couple days. I’ve been planning and reading, getting ready to write the next batch of chapters of Whispers. The letter format is about to break, and the story should become more interesting.
I’ve made the switch from Windows XP to Linux Knoppix as my main OS. I’ve greatly impressed with it and how usable all the software is. I have a lot left to learn about it, but I can already do nearly everything I need to with Knoppix. Writing to my external hard drive, updating my Clie and using a P2P filesharing programs are the only things I have not learned to do yet. All other aspects of this software are equal to or better than their Windows counterparts, and that is quite exciting. I keep an install of XP on my hard drive so that I can still do a couple things, but otherwise I stay in Knoppix permanently.
One of the great aspects of Knoppix (specifically the K Desktop Environment) is that I can use any number of desktops as I want. I can switch between them on the fly, so it gives me a lot of versitility while working on various things. Right now I have home, web, communication, music, and two other desktops set up, each holding an aspect of what I’m using my computer for. It’s quite a liberating feature.
Since I have six desktops, I can have six wallpaper images in use at once. I’ve filled those spots with the lovely wallpapers offered at Pixelgirl Presents. I was very impressed by the quality and selection to be found there.
In the summer I started having two books on the go at all times. One is fiction and the other non-fiction, with the latter usually on spirituality. I’ve read all the physical books I have on spirituality so I think I’ll reread The Tao of Inner Peace. I would like to find another book, preferably used. Does anyone have some suggestions?
5 comments on “Stones, Conversions, Spirit”
is your icon supposed to be the chinese symbol for soul? because I have the chinese symbol for soul as a tattoo and it looks nearly nothing like that, I know it has two parts, and yours has the top of the first part but that’s all
There are several different characters and combinations that roughly translate to soul. From what I understand, it’s a combination of the writing language having evolved and subtle differences in the meaning of the word.
Put simply, there is no kanji symbol for ‘soul’. If you had bothered to do research before posting anything, and possibly even getting your tattoo, that the unromanized version of chinese, or kanji, do not represent words, but rather feelings and ideas. a single character, translated directly could result in an entire sentence, rather than a single word.
I really hope you’re not as rude for real as you come off online. I was simply just wondering, because every symbol I’ve seen for soul does not look like the one in his icon. My tattoo doesn’t even look like the image that I posted. And I know that it’s not just for a word, the whole reason I got it as a tattoo was for what it meant altogether. Maybe if you bothered to actually know someone before leaving a comment such as this, then you’d know that.
Actually, I am just as rude in RL as I am online. Not that I care you think I’m rude anyways. Last time I bothered to check, there were over 50 different chinese languages, many of them with a ‘different’ written language. Inside each written dialect, there’s usually atleast 2-3 different ways of writing any given kanji. All in all, that in itself could give you about 100 to 150 different possible symbols that would relate to ‘soul’. That’s why his symbol doesn’t look like yours, or any you might have found
Would I bother to know you? No. You have kanji as a tattoo. That in itself places you right on my list with people who get their boy/girlfriend’s name tattooed on them.
And…as my final note before ignoring this entry and the comments associated with it…Apollo, I’m sorry for bringing the above argument into your LJ. Good day to you.