Ryan Richard Overbey

@overbey.bsky.social

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Buddhology, &c.

A box containing copies of the author’s new book
A Buddhist stupa in the middle of the Vienna Central Cemetery
Image of the cast of die Fledermaus during applause.
Prof. Krstić giving opening remarks
A screenshot of elfeed, an emacs-based RSS reader
An image of Yi Ding’s new book “Observances, Feasts, and Scripts”
A poster for the old TV show "Saved by the Bell", with superimposed photo of Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, stars of "Heated Rivalry”
A modified “This is Fine” meme, in which the dog in a burning room looks around and smugly says “So I have a book coming out.”
A page from the History of Akbar: MUZAFFAR KHAN FALLS FROM FAVOR At all times, through the rising of the luminary of imperial guidance, in accordance with his noble characteristic the emperor draws the veil of uniqueness over his world-adorning beauty. During these days he made the game of Parcheesi a veil for his spiritual beauty and played it avidly. Mastering the special moves of this game, which contains much wisdom, the emperor kept a group of courtiers in attendance for playing it, and wonderful sessions were held. Although outwardly he appeared to be playing, inwardly he was assessing people and disguising seriousness ina garb of sport and fun. One day Muzaffar Khan, besotted with worldliness and incompetence at the game, which was a measure of competence, had become so intimate with the emperor that he acted rudely. The emperor relieved him of his office and sent him to the Hejaz in order that his corrupted state might improve through unimportance and exile.
Cover slide for Elsa Marty’s “Bitcoin is Freedom: Rituals in Bitcoin Maximalism”
Picture of the video list of Christian influencer Ashley Hetherington, titled “becoming THAT christian girl”
AAR conference by Princeton University Press, with authors listed alphabetically. Two books in the list give their author as “The Buddha”
A quote from Sam Altman in 2013: "Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions." I heard this from Qi Lu; I'm not sure what the source is. It got me thinking, though--the most successful founders do not set out to create companies. They are on a mission to create something closer to a religion, and at some point it turns out that forming a company is the easiest way to do so.
Front of package of TactiClip, a brand of hair clips for toxic masculine dudebros that are also outlandishly iridescent.
Beautifully executed Baja-style fish tacos with a Modelo Especial beer, at Fish Guts, San Diego