Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Friday, 2026.04.10 
Whenever any phenomenon reaches its extreme, it will change toward its opposite,
just as the darkest night begins to change toward dawn, and the coldest winter
is followed by glorious spring. Therefore, anything that one wishes to destroy
need only be led to its extreme or crushed while it is just appearing. For
example, the two easiest times to destroy a tree are when it is so tall that it
is about to topple or so young that it can be easily uprooted.

The same principle holds if one wishes to nurture something. You can prevent its
destruction by bringing it close to, but not over, its apex. You can take a
branch from an old tree and graft it. This is the wisdom of the middle ground.

		Deng Ming-Dao, "365 Tao - Daily Meditations", #80

2006.03.16

Taking the “e” Out of e-Commerce

These good people deserve a plug for making me laugh. I’d ordered several Zoe Keating CD’s and this is the e-receipt that was sent. Normally I barely glance at these things, but this one managed to make the transaction a little less electronic.

Thanks for your order with CD Baby!

Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make
sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that
money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Monday, March 13th.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby.  We sure did. 
Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year".  We're all
exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you once again,

Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby
the little CD store with the best new independent music
phone: 1-800-448-6369  email: cdbaby@cdbaby.com
https://cdbaby.com

This is also where you can find the excellent tunes from David M. Bailey.

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