Started reading George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Read a bit of his work before, seemed pretty good. Hoping for a long, enthralling ride.

my pratchett reading's been on hiatus for too long. so, salvaged some ebooks, downloaded an epub reader, and i just finished A Hat Full of Sky. Moving on to Wintersmith.

Circles and circles

was thinking about taoism while jogging at quezon circle. sam harris does buddhism, but bleah. "all life is suffering," i switch off right there. the taoism metaphor has more to go on. the way and its power. the tao that can be spoken of is not the true tao: the map is not the territory. and taoism is ostensibly the rationale behind the superhuman stuff of wuxia/kung fu. the path fits into the nerdy urge to optimize.