10th July 2005
One of the books that my children loved when they were growing up is a Disney book describing a car race between Donald Duck and Goofy which is a spin-off of the Turtle and Hare race story.
In this Disney version, Goofy who drives an old car was challenged to a race by Donald who zips around in a spiffy new race car. While Goofy chugs steadily along, he says, “Ahoo0-gah! Slow and Steady! Steady and Slow! That’s the only way to go!”
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10th July 2005
I spent the past few days at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I brought along four books with me, thinking that I might have some down time during the conference to catch up on some reading as well, but as it turned out I only managed to read en route. Still, I was able to complete The Lost Sutras of Jesus.
and The Barbarian Way. These two were some of the books I purchased to reward myself for landing the job of my dreams (well, sort of - perhaps one of my many dreams.)
Don’t let title of the first book deter you or scare you off. It is not about any Buddhist sutras that Jesus alegedly wrote. He wasn’t credited as having written any of the sutras, but it is about some ancient scrolls that was found in a hidden cave library filled with thousands of scrolls which is at least 1300 years old.
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