April 20, 2007 – 11:49 am
Baptist minister Mark Dever’s reading recommendations
Movie: The Lives of Others
The critics have been fairly uniform in their praise for this film. The period of history - East Germany before the Berlin Wall came down - was unfamiliar to me, but the film captures the mood of people living under such a regime: constantly fawning to those in power, looking for [...]
N. T. Wright reviews C.S. Lewis’ book Mere Christianity
Greek chapter seven - moods
I was still anxious about the content of chapter seven - moods, and expecting to cover chapter eight this week, so it was a relief when we spent this week covering the old and the new of “moods” without venturing further into unknown territory.
In this [...]
April 17, 2007 – 10:08 am
Café senso unico, burwood
Grinders coffee. 51 George St, Burwood. No discernable signage here, across the road from the EDS building, but this terrace house has been converted into a café with impressively fast service.
The coffee is ok: you can do much worse in burwood, but it’s away from the [...]
Wah wah lounge, waterloo
Coffee roaster coffee. Already buzzing before 9am on a sunday, a crowd of fairly well-to-do inner-city types are in their best casual garb, sipping on lattes and enjoying the morning sun; perhaps they’re grabbing a bite before nearby hillsong church starts.
Staff are friendly and helpful; water [...]
Sugar café, bondi junction
Grinders coffee. Light green inside and outside, with the background music just too soft to drown out the conversation, the general vibe of this converted house is relaxed. Staff are immaculately dressed, and focussed, perhaps, rather than friendly.
Opposite the nelson hotel, i’m sitting inside on a [...]
Bella espresso, bellvue hill
Allpress espresso. Busy and popular, it’s standing room only outside, but there’s still some room indoors where a couple of wooden boxes against a wall have been artfully transformed into comfortable seating by virtue of some plush cushioning.
Ordering is all outside; four staff work busily in [...]
Danks st depot, waterloo.
Allpress espresso cofffee. Across the road from a hillsong centre, this café, despite its humble exterior, has a truly attractive interior - lots of wood, and some bare metal. The café is buzzing with a well-to-do crowd.
Staff are friendly and effervescent: taking orders on little [...]
Crave café, bellevue hill
Santos coffee. As you’d expect for this hybrid corner store, café and deli, the food is of excellent calibre - the choice of breads alone is worth the journey. Don’t be surprised to see a porsche park in front of the café, grab a takeaway [...]
At the moment, I’m working my way through (famous atheist) Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion - it’s the first book I’ve read that seeks to persuade someone who is sitting on the fence to embrace atheism (the belief that there is no God) as a life-philosophy: as a faith, if that’s not a poor [...]
April 14, 2007 – 10:35 pm
Random Lists: Thirty Books That Every Uni Student Should Read (I’m a fair few off the list, sadly)
April 14, 2007 – 10:24 pm
Movie: Copying Beethoven
This wasn’t on my “must see” list, but a free ticket is a free ticket. Early on, I was wondering to myself what the point of the film was: after al, it’s a fictionalised account of the last year (or three) of Ludwig van Beethoven’s life: so we’re not seeing the historical figure, [...]
Pino latte, centrepoint arcade, sydney
Espresso di manfredi coffee. This café is only a hole in the wall, but the scent of breakfast drifts all the way out to the street, which is how I stumble upon it. Four staff are at work on the morning rush: two kitchen, one [...]
Glossary of Grammatical and Theological Terms - could be useful for someone out there. You have to love "Anarthrous": without the article… well, you do if you’re keen on grammar.
April 12, 2007 – 12:08 pm
[smh] Possibly Australia’s most expensive cup of coffee
We have no more space for furniture in our house, but if we did, and if price wasn’t an issue, I think I’d like these Contemporary French Chairs
Phrase of the day: bagel mobility limiters
Easter monday, mcdonalds at sydney international airport
Inexplicably, only two registers are open, while the manager sits in her office at the back of the store.
Dragonboating race - regatta centre, penrith
I’d never seen a dragon boat race before, but we knew one of the racers, so we headed out to have a look. The race here, the boat that came second had an 80 year old lady in its rowing team, although the average [...]