h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Okay I'm not really. Don't get me wrong I am a big fan of Star Trek. Except for Voyager. That one, I'm sorry, sucked. I tried watching it a few times hoping that it would get better. It didn't. Of course I'm sure that there are some people out there that really enjoyed that show. I'm just not one of them.
So onto the lessons for today. I think that I might start with a well know koan. Some of you out will know what that is. For the rest of you, grab a dictionary

There was a Buddist monk who one day found himself running from a hungry bear. The bear chased him to a cliff. There was nothing for him to do, if he did not desire to be food for the bear's hungry stomach, but jump. He did so and was able to catch hold, as he fell, of a branch of wood growing from the cliff's side. As he hung there, looking up at the hungry bear above, he heard the roar of a famished lion far below who was already waiting for him to tire, lose his grip and fall to its hungry jaws.
As the monk hung suspended, hungry bear above and starving lion below, he noticed the heads of two gophers appear from the cliff's side. At once they began gnawing on the small stump of wood to which he clung so desperately.
All at once the monk saw that just a stretch away was a small clump of wild strawberries. He calmly reached out, plucked the largest, reddest and ripest of the berries, and put it in his mouth.
"How delicious!," he said.

Whew! That was some koan. I'll look for another one later.

So I was lurking at the conversation thread for lurking. I find that mildly funny because I didn't actually post anything. Just lurked about for a bit. You know what they say... Stalking is illegal, but lurking isn't. I don't know who "they" are, but I heard it from somewhere. I think this is enough rambling for now. Bye.