I haven’t really been excited about the whole “steampunk” thing. Attaching brass and copper plating to current technology to make it look like you’re from some Back to the Future prequel isn’t that cool… unless you’ve built a pacman arcade game out of cogs and levers…
Now, that’s cool.
Mythbusters has a lot to answer for. They really should append “don’t try this at home” to anything to do with soft drink and mentos.
From bits and pieces…
Oh Pepsi, you’re so cheap. You’ve always tried so hard to impress us. But you’re a floozy. We can see right through you… you and your cheap tricks…
Here’s a diagramatic representation of the evolution of two popular cola’s logos over their history…
I probably don’t write enough about death. Mostly because it’s one of those topics you don’t talk about in polite company.
But I can’t let these advances in post mortem technology go by without comment.
Finding the right, dignified, treatment for your loved ones is an important choice…
Firstly, you could turn your loved one’s ashes into a rather smart casual diamond… from LifeGem. Here’s a testimonial…
“Dear Mr. VandenBiesen,
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If that’s not your thing, you could always choose to keep your loved one’s ashes in a purpose built urn – reproduced in the image of the recently departed. From PersonalUrns.
I know I said I was going to stop putting my conversations with Dr Paul on the main page. They’re getting too long.
But I have an excuse – there’s this cool new “text to video” platform – xtranormal – that is worth mentioning all by itself. The fact that I’ve used it to animate our current email conversations is neither here nor there… the German accent I gave him makes him just as hard to understand as he is in real life. I’ve updated the video to give him a nice clear British accent…
I love my atheist friends. Not only do they brighten up my work days with interesting emails, the also get me thinking quite a bit about what we do right and wrong as Christians.
The Internet Monk has entered into his own little dialogue with an atheist – it’s interesting reading.
That old “morality” chestnut comes up. One of the things atheists seem to find profoundly annoying (apart from being generalised and slandered as a bunch, and references to Hitler) is the idea that you can’t be a moral person without God.
This is a communication breakdown. When I say “you can’t be good without God” it’s because I believe in God, believe humanity to be totally and naturally sinful, and believe that God graciously allows sinful people to act morally. Other people mean something different – they mean that you can’t be moral without “believing” in God. They’re different. And I think we need to be careful to express the difference in meaning. Non-theists are capable of moral behaviour. Theists believe that’s because God lets them, atheists don’t feel that compulsion because they don’t believe God is there to do it.
The internetmonk article also brings up the question of indoctrinating children and whether or not this constitutes “child abuse” – which it can’t possibly, if God is there. And I believe he is.
I’ve been a bit inspired by my mum’s cooking blog (that doesn’t get updated very often) to put some of my recipes online occasionally.
It saves trying to write them down in a book somewhere to keep track of them.
Today’s recipe is for Butter Chicken – my Butter Chicken Recipe is deceptive – it contains no butter.
Ingredients
Method
Serve with rice and naan/roti/flat bread of some description/pappadams.
Leave any suggested improvements in the comments…
Three nights of Chamber Music done and dusted. I’m feeling as cultured as one of those Yakult yoghurt drinks…
I can tell my bassoons from my oboes… So I thought I’d share that culture with you.
This is Bruce. He is my new scambaiting alterego. I have decided that rather than boring all those not interested in my scambaiting exploits I will set up a category that is excluded from the main page and the RSS feed – but available from a nice, easy to find, link. Which I will add when I’ve set it up. For now, this is Bruce. He’s pleased to meet you. And to help you with any foreign banking dramas you might have…
I’ve been tweaking my design a bit in my allocated blog time today – rather than posting. Check out the funky new drop down menu in the top right of the design, and first time (and regulars coming back for the first time) visitors will get a nice little welcome message from now on.
Try it and tell me what you think.
Off to opening night of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music now. I’ll come back more cultured, but don’t worry, I’ve got a heap of trivial things to post tomorrow to get you through your weekend.
NASCAR is the world’s dumbest motor sport. Here’s a flowchart guide to success.
For those not interested in US race politics here’s a quick snapshot of a story going on in the US now that will make this post make sense…
An African American professor was arrested in his own home recently for breaking into his own home. The police were called by a neighbour, who didn’t recognise the guy as the home owner. The guy told the police that he was the homeowner, established this fact, and was still taken to the police station – Barack Obama commented on the situation, which is inappropriate given the separation of powers between executive and judicial arms of government. Everybody got mad. Then Obama invited the professor and the police man around to his house for a beer so they could have some laughs and move on with life…
Pretty cool hey. It’s a bit like To Kill A Mockingbird – because it’s about Racism, and a guy who knows the law really well doing his bit for reconciliation and to bring equality to the legal system.
Anyway, XKCD has produced this comic strip – which was funny.
Why is it that as a Christian I am suspicious of anybody who forms their entire worldview – scientific, political and eschatological – on the basis of Genesis, Daniel, and Revelation?
They seem perfectly natural places to go for such issues…