by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 12, 2009
I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in the Dharma. I take refuge in the Sangha. And here in Singapore, I take refuge in air-conditioning.
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 6, 2009
Many years ago, when I was still a half-starving graduate student, I attended a talk at Sun Microsystems by one of the Sutherland brothers (I can’t remember which one, I think it was Ivan). Mr Sutherland started his talk by asking, with a show of hands, how many...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 5, 2009
Mingyur Rinpoche’s honorific is the Very Venerable Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. When I first heard of it, I thought to myself, “I wonder how it must be like to be the guy who is Only Slightly Venerable”. And then I realized, that guy is me. I got to...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 22, 2009
One of the things I’m known for is my celebrity wall (“Meng’s Wall”) at the Googleplex. When people tell me I’ve got a great wall, I would joke (with an almost made-up Chinese accent), “I Chinese, I build great wall”. When I...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 15, 2009
I figured out how to reach the moon. 1. Give fiddle to cat. 2. Ride on cow, get cow to jump, but a little lower than usual.
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 10, 2009
I should really be a vegetarian, for the good karma. But I enjoy the taste of meat too much, especially sashimi. What to do? I figured out a solution: Karma offsets. All I have to do is to pay a meat-eater to become a vegetarian, in order to offset my own bad...
