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...skate at Frog Pond in the Boston Common anytime from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., or see the Boston Bruins take on the Washington Capitals at the FleetCenter at 1:30 p.m. Renting skates at the Common: $5.00; tickets for the Bruins game...
...point is that his image is not merely blasphemous, and was not thought to be: radishes, like all other living things, have their Buddha nature. And yet it's funny--as much of a joke as one of the Zen classics in the show: Sengai Gibon's beatifically smiling frog in meditation...
Here's a remarkable structure: a kiddie pool, perfectly round, dug by a Hyla boans tree frog as a nest and nursery for its tadpoles. The pool's sand walls look as if they have been carved and smoothed by a sculptor; they hold the tadpoles until they are transformed into froglets...
Today Gates, grown very powerful and great, sits at the center of world technology like an immense frog eyeing insect life on the pond surface, now and then consuming a tasty company with one quick dart of the tongue...
Microsoft? Maybe. On the other hand, being the biggest, toughest frog in the pond doesn't help if you're in the wrong pond. Some people have the idea that Microsoft is fated to dominate technology forever. They had this same idea about IBM, once admired and feared nearly as much as Microsoft is today. They had essentially the same idea about Japan's technology sector back in the 1980s and early '90s. It isn't quite fair to compare Microsoft to a large country yet. But Japan was on a roll and looked invincible--once...