cafe karalis
Enrico over at Cafe Karalis contacted me through my site and asked if he could send me some coffee. I was mid-way through my decaf phase, so I opted to wait a month. It showed up yesterday, so I tried it this morning.
The vacuum sealed can opens with [...]
It’s on…
My city to surf bib showed up in the mail: it’s more of an a4 sticker than a bib… Less than two weeks to go.
Geek tips: Advancing in the Bash Shell - becoming a command-line guru.
I’ve already used this one for dinner conversation: Outsourcing the Picket Line; unions hiring non-union workers to protest other non-union workers.
[blurb] The iPhone - it does everything, but - Will It Blend?. Kind of painful to watch.
That’s a lot of checkboxes to uncheck… how many newsletters can there be?
Movie: Amazing Grace
The story of William Wilberforce; the man who was largely responsible for the abolition of slavery in 19th Century England. It’s a good - more than watchable - but not a great movie, and it distills Wilberforce’s life down - if anything, he worked even harder than was portrayed in the film. [...]
Greek, chapter 15: the passive and voices
The second week back to Greek, and there’s already a sense of foreboding. It looks like the last half-dozen chapters of the textbook are going to be tough. I’ve had the vocab CD on fairly high rotation in the car, and still a [...]
Book: Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough
A book written by a couple of Australian researchers discussing the change in focus for “the great Australian dream”. Though Australians are three times richer (on average) than we were in the 1950’s, most of us feel that we don’t have enough money for basic needs. A great [...]
Last night I had a few moments (two, maybe three minutes) of quiet: though I had a bag with a couple of books in it within easy reach, I chose to try and sit still. To not think of the things that I need to do, or learn.
I can’t say I enjoyed the pause [...]
A Christian’s guide to Better Blog Reading - some approaches to stop blog-reading from taking over too much time, and some guidelines on what to read, and what to avoid.
Cards with friends
Sometimes, a 500 hand comes along that’s so bad, it deserves special attention. Note to self, it took two tries to photograph the cards, as the flash reflected too much and washed out the red cards the first time.
There was a time when I would never speak [...]
Book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I think I’ve been reading too many blog-posts, and not enough fiction - I wasn’t expecting this book to be so long - I thought instead it would just wrap everything up quickly. It weighs in at a little over 600 pages, and I thought it was easily the [...]
Book: Interpreting the Psalms: Issues And Approaches
This book is compulsory reading for the Preaching Psalms subject I’m doing later this year. It’s a collection of essays, each by a different academic. I found it a bit of a tough read in places. Most of the essays were useful, but there was the occasional one that [...]
Book: Australia’s Money Secrets of the Rich
A friend was moving overseas, and when I helped him move some of his furniture, he gave me a number of books on investing. This was one of them. I’ve often wondered about this genre of books - normally, they’re very expensive, but this one (from the pricetag on [...]
Greek - semester two, week 1.
Participles.
I’m often asked why I’m learning Greek: after all, there are dozens - maybe even hundreds of English translations - why not stick to one of them instead of going to all this trouble? This week provided a bit of insight into where it [...]
Another subject this semester: Early Church History… pretty much 50AD - 451AD. Why would I want to learn this? Because this is where it was all happening - the church went from one guy walking around in a small part of the Middle East, to being all over the known world, in the space of [...]