Pre-greek breakfast
What better way to prepare for a morning of greek lectures than by revising some greek? What way indeed?
A few things I’ve noticed this semester:
the first half of semester was much easier than the second
if you skip a concept, or don’t learn it thoroughly, there won’t be time [...]
Coast bar & café, port macquarie
Peak coffee. Only a handful of norfolk pines and the occasional car interrupt the view of the ocean: a gentle breeze drifts across the outdoor tables.
Service is relaxed and friendly: as it should be, given the food prices: despite the lack of tablecloths, this [...]
Oliver’s food stop, wyong
Allpress espresso coffee. The internet has spoken, and it has told the truth. This is indeed the better venue for coffee purchase at this roadside destination.
Coffee is ground to order, and, though there’s a huge head of foam at the top of the cup, the coffee [...]
Took a rare day off to streach out a quick trip up and down the coast. Managed to spend some time with Kel’s mum, grab a 5km run along the Nambucca river and towards the beach, visit church in Macksville, and see the latest addition to the Morton family.
Book: The Power of One
- Bryce Courtenay
The audiobook was free for download at the iTunes Music Store, so I grabbed it at the time; I’ve never read this book before, nor (despite listening to no small number of podcasts) listened to an audio book, and this one is a monster at somewhere around 20 hours, [...]
Molu - The Search Spider - a search engine with a few extra features, like saving the current search result as a PDF.
iStockphoto.com article about correctly adjusting the White Balance on your camera.
Rescued from train breakdown
An adventure on the way to work is always blog-worthy, if not actually welcome. Waiting on wynyard station from just before 9am today, the 1 minute warning jumped up and down to 2 minutes: up and down. I was starting to think it would make a [...]
Greek chapter twelve; the third declension, caffeine-free
Yes, you can see a photo here of the greek textbook with my mug of lemon tea. After two cups of lemon tea, I realised it was really just a reflex to be getting a hot drink, and I started drinking water instead.
This [...]
Aroma’s café, gymea
Amore coffee. Wooden interior, with a hint of early settler australian in the use of corrugated metal on the bench seats. Massive serves of food on offer, which puts the higher-than-usual prices into perspective.
Despite what I was reading on other sites, the staff here - while not [...]
How to Improve Your Cheapo Webcam’s Picture Quality
The opportunities that blogging opens up never cease to amaze me. Having had a bad coffee at a particular cafe, and blogged about it, I received an email not from the cafe owner (this has happened before), but from the coffee distributor, asking me to come in to their warehouse and try the coffee.
At first, [...]
[jes] Cute. Mouse pointer magnification (requires flash)
DIY garden bed
It doesn’t matter that there are three assignments due next wek, it’s time for another garden update. Long overdue, in fact.
Having found that this particular part of the lawn is a bit hard to reach with the lawnmower, I decided that it would be a good place [...]
A few weekends back, I sat in on a training session called “managing change in 3 questions”. The session was about coping with conflict that comes from implementing change. The essence of keeping your cool? Keep ascribing good motives to the other person, even when you’re in the midst of conflict.
The three “questions” were:
- What [...]
Which slash is forward, and which is back? Slash (punctuation)
When you pay a quarter of a million dollars to buy a bull whose kids will make the perfect steaks, you get designer beef.
The source espresso bar, mosman.
St Ali Coffee (won the Age award for best coffee in melbourne). Food floors, and even a wood feature wall with the sense of style that you would expect of a mosman café. Coffee is ground-to-order, and the neatly uniformed staff bring out the coffees [...]
Greek chapter eleven - special verbs
Just when you start to think the verbs can’t get any more complicated, along comes the second aorist. You might remember that greek has two ways of talking about past activity: the imperfect and the aorist.
Imperfect refers to a past action that was [...]