Brother Mitchel, famous MIT professor. Exploring Emergence is a very cool interactive essay he did to introduce the type of concepts he teaches. His current project is Scratch, a site that offers a free, kid-friendly programming language (suitable for creating games, art, music, and animation). Scratch allows users to share their creations a la YouTube.
Cousin Eric, lives with wife Nancy in my home town, active in Sierra Club.
Raul's my old buddy from Haverford High School. His latest adventure is piloting a hot air balloon. Through the Haverford High website, I've just heard from fellow allum Steve 'IronToe' Brown.
I met David Ledeboer through Zen; the link is to his group that combines Buddhist meditation with shamanic plant teachers. David is a fellow Yalie who quit even quicker than I did!
Niika and I have kept in contact off and on since we were friends in the ashram in India around '83. The link is to her blog, which includes reports from India, where she's lived much of the time since 2006.
Ed Garibay used to be a bartender in Palo Alto. I met him through my alcoholic friends, and we connected as fellow Zen students. He's now in Canada, and the link is to the blog where he posts cute photos of his two young kids.
Drew's babyGia.
I met Patri Friedman at a few poker gatherings in Vegas and LA many years ago. I just discovered his blog. I also met Paul Phillips when he was in the poker/computer geek world.
Ken Silver, who I know through both Siddha Yoga and Zen, has written a book to help people Retire to Asia. And here are photos from Ken's trip to Nicaragua.
My friend Derry's sister has a site about horses.
Cory Maley, whom I met when he was Derry's housemate, kept a blog of his world travels.
Two Dharma friends I know through Empty Gate Zen Center: Xuan and Ross.