NYT: Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic
To all the people I have offended with my stance on whether to use disinterested or uninterested - I’m sorry. In fact, though usage has skewed towards disinterested meaning the same thing as uninterested, in the event in question, I was wrong in my usage of the word. (The Oxford dictionary agrees with the brief [...]
There’s no crime too small in Tokyo
March 29, 2007 – 12:58 pm
I don’t have, or want, an iPod, but this cafe at night ipod video skin is noteworthy of itself.
March 29, 2007 – 12:14 pm
Frendz cafe, west lindfield
Lavazza coffee. Adjacent to a garden shop, pricey (we’re far enough
north to expect that) but healthy and less healty menu options in a
good ratio.
Coffee was as expected; not great. The fact that they’d never heard of
a ristretto before should have been the warning sign, but my [...]
Amazing: check the photo. In China, Homeowner Stares Down Wreckers, at Least for a While
March 28, 2007 – 11:57 am
Word of the day: secateurs - I had no idea how to spell this word for garden shears.
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March 27, 2007 – 11:28 am
In the first hour of the ministry formations class, we watched a DVD related to the Presbyterian church’s breaking the silence program. When something bad happens in the church, as far as inappropriate conduct goes, then the ways of dealing with it are covered by these guidelines.
It’s confronting stuff: the moral failure of people [...]
March 27, 2007 – 11:16 am
It’s a very strange sensation to go from working, to sitting an exam, to normal classes, to packing up house and moving.
Last week’s Greek class: the first hour was an exam - the first assessment task for the semester, and worth 40% of the marks for the first half of the year. It wasn’t as [...]
March 27, 2007 – 11:06 am
The Art of Pastoring: Ministry Without All the Answers
David Hansen has written this book as a reflection on nine years spent as the minister of a church in rural America. I still have to write a proper book review on this, so I’ll keep my remarks brief, but it was a helpful book in thinking [...]
March 26, 2007 – 11:19 am
fireworks cafe, austinmer
Toby’s estate coffee. A little removed from the beach in this waterside suburb south of sydney, north of wollongong. This space feels like a newtown gallery - a scattering of tables, and a cushioned bench seat along two walls.
The waitstaff seem familiar with the locals; the place [...]
March 26, 2007 – 10:56 am
Oskar’s wild café and bookshop, thirroul
Delano coffee. Amazing painted ceilings are on show in this space, and all the adjoining shops in the complex. The décor is part old-world sweet shop, with just a touch of modern bookshop on the edges.
There’s an average-length menu, and the food is good. [...]
March 26, 2007 – 10:49 am
(Christian speaker and academic) Don Carson MP3s
March 26, 2007 – 10:47 am
[megnut] dining in total darkness
Regular posting will resume shortly.
March 20, 2007 – 10:48 pm
Last post from our rented unit… the next one will be after our possessions have made their way across Sydney. See you on the other side.
March 20, 2007 – 11:21 am
Greek Language Tools from Lionel Windsor
the frogs are gone
Apart from the frogs (and the other creatures), we now own everything in this picture (and the house behind where the photo was taken).
March 19, 2007 – 10:03 am
Ross noble - fizzy logic
The stage before the show. A very quick-thinking comic, crass at times, but usually in a good-natured way, Ross Noble manages to take being distracted on a tangent to new artistic heights.
The only time I felt particularly uncomfortable during the show was the lengthy [...]