If there’s one thing guaranteed to make your infant grow up safe, secure, nightmare free, and well balanced it’s a ninja mobile – where the ninjas are staving off the attacks of nasty pirates. They’re available from Etsy.
Author: Nathan Campbell
Nathan runs St Eutychus. He loves Jesus. His wife. His daughter. His son. His other daughter. His dog. Coffee. And the Internet. He is the pastor of City South Presbyterian Church, a church in Brisbane, a graduate of Queensland Theological College (M. Div) and the Queensland University of Technology (B. Journ). He spent a significant portion of his pre-ministry-as-a-full-time-job life working in Public Relations, and now loves promoting Jesus in Brisbane and online. He can't believe how great it is that people pay him to talk and think about Jesus. If you'd like to support his writing financially you can do that by giving to his church.
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Art with crayons
Crayons. We all grow up drawing with them – and then most of us graduate to pencils and other less waxy implements. Who knew that you could create such high brow pieces of art with Crayolas. Here they are masquerading as pixels…
A bunch of links – July 3, 2009
- Recipe: Dark Chocolate Gelato
- The God of Science
- Application: Specific Not Facile
- Articles | Quiet Please: Politicians are Present
- A2 Milk
- Blue and Green? No, They are the Same Color.
- Shoot Better Nighttime Pictures [Photos]
- The Twilight of Free Content?
- Are You Going to Become a YouTube Star?
- Mike Foster: Why I Don’t Believe In Accountability Part 2
- Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism?
Check out this optical illusion, it’s amazing.
Pandaing to the masses
Elephants used to be big in Thailand. Figuratively not literally. They’re still physically imposing – but Thailand has apparently gone crazy over pandas. And the elephants are jealous. So they played dress ups.
A is for Awesome Alphabet Aid
How do you make sure your son learns the alphabet good and proper? With this fantastic series of letter helpers.
The series is up to T.
Here are my favourites:
Found here.
Pain to gain ratio
The old no pain no gain adage gets tested (along with physics and chemistry) in this video where the proponents have gone to far too much effort. At least the guy involved probably won’t be breeding any time soon.
Horsing around
I hate Nickelback. More than I hate U2. They are the world’s most painful band.
I was at the pub the other night with Tim and Aaran for trivia. There was a Nickelback had a video clip playing. Luckily there was no sound on. But the band have this odd habit of looking like they’re riding horses when they’re singing.
Microsoft, on the other hand, apparently love Nickelback – and they think you do too.
They want you to clog up your computer with their stupid product – and a stupid song by a stupid band. What an incentive.
A novel solution
I started writing a novel once – well, a few times – and one of the problems I came across was settling on names for characters. This is why I think many authors stick to historic fiction. Sadly, others have issues coming up with the right plot devices – this will be a problem no more thanks to this great character reference card…
2B or not to Bee
Sculptures made from lego. Awesome. I remember when I was young going to big lego expos in shopping centres. These are cool.
There are more impressive sculptures that didn’t fit with my clever title.
Found here.
Rubikcubism
Here’s a follow up to that Rubik’s Cube art post from the other day. It’s pretty incredible. According to the video this kind of artistic endeavour is called rubikcubism.
The video was in the original post – but something didn’t quite work and it’s worthy of its own post. Apologies if you’ve seen it already.
New kids on the block
Have you seen that video of all those prisoners doing the Thriller dance? It’s really moving and emotional and stuff… well, this is better.
Pac Mini
Pacman gear doesn’t get much classier than a painted Mini Cooper.
Review: How To Rob A Bank
The full title – How To Rob A Bank: And Ten Tips To Actually Get Away With It.
Coming in at the perfect length (an hour and 12 minutes) this bank robbery caper would have been incredibly cheap to produce – it’s the movie Phone Booth would have been if it was a bank robbery comedy, only it’s got the recently departed David Carradine as the mastermind on the other end of the phone rather than Keither Sutherland (thanks Kutz).
It’s clever, entertaining, and beautifully shot. The script keeps things moving, the jokes are well executed. It’s not long so it’s worth a watch.
The ten tips – for those wondering… (with some slight language modifications)…
- Decide to rob a bank.
- Have a plan.
- Have a back-up plan.
- Establish clear communications.
- Choose your partners carefully.
- Expect the unexpected.
- Stuff happens.
- Don’t get greedy.
- Remember, stuff happens.
- Hang up and know when to walk away
Fully sick
I’m at home with “man flu” today, and it’s school holidays, and our friend Trav is here to visit. So we’re watching movies on the couch. Stay tuned for reviews.
The importance of clear communication
Bagging out U2 on a public forum had some unexpected consequences. I’m not talking about the outcry from Christians keen to hang their hats on the Bono coathook of public Christianity.
No. It’s changed the way I engage in conversation with my wife. Now, if she says “I love you” – I say “I love you also” lest I be branded a hypocrite.