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"We normally have the idea that if we are in hell this is a bad thing, and we'll have to spend a long time with a shovel, digging our way out. But this is not so. Somebody asked Nanao Sakaki, the fine poet who saw Hiroshima, "How do we survive nuclear catastrophe?" He said, "No need to survive. No need to survive hell either." Wherever you are, that can be the pure land. I have always loved Buddhist paintings in the esoteric tradition that show the sufferings of the hell realms, they are rather like medieval Christian paintings, with flames and pitchforks and horns and so on. But there is always a little Buddha sitting in the hell realm, looking exactly like all the other demons, with horns and a big smile . . . So if you are in hell, perhaps you can be one of those demons, a Buddha demon."
- John Tarrant
That Great Sleeping Dragon of Joy
a teisho, 1994
(from Whiskey River)
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If you want to take away the I-my-me mountain,
you must get a cane made of rabbit horn.
If you want to cross the ocean of suffering,
you must take the ship with no bottom.
1. Where do you get a cane made of rabbit horn?
2. Where is the ship with no bottom?
- Hyo Bong
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BrandyBasic (a BBC BASIC clone, text-only version) ported to the IRIX 5.3, running on the SGI Indigo workstation.
Retro on retro...
Dan Gibson took us on a tour of the La Jolla labs as SGI-DNA went live today. They have built a robotic DNA synthesis array with Gibson’s magic methods to assemble genes from bench-top beakers of chemicals.
Next step: Craig Venter’s dream of the Digital Biological Converter — print to life. This is now known as the BioXp
For some sick reason, the past month or so has seen a crisis of abundnace in (old) SGI stuff showing up at my home office.
Here we have an R5000 Indy, an R4000 Indigo Elan, and an R4400 Indigo2 Extreme, among other assorted garbage cluttering up the end of my desk.
Installed a "new" floppy drive to my SGI Indgio computer. Now I'm testing how it works.
I absolutely forgot how slow and noisy were these floppies!
IAEA Safeguards Office of Information and Communication Systems (SGIS)
Department of Safeguards
IAEA, Vienna, Austria. 11 September 2019
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
GX66NYL Specialist Group International SGI Ford Ranger Underwater Search and Recovery / Incident Support assisting Leicestershire Police search for missing Xielo Maruziva in the river soar Aylstone Leicester
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Runs SGI Irix 6.5. I think this one has 128 megs of RAM. Also has a tape drive behind the flip-open door on the front.
This is probably my favorite computer. Its design is unique, it has a nontypical CPU, the MIPS R44k, and runs an obscure operating system.
SGI used to make really powerful, expensive machines. I think they are bankrupt now.
I have two of these. I got them both at the first Saturday sale in Dallas for $20 in 2003.