It’s almost a week since Robyn and I went to see Muse. It was a pretty amazing concert. Here are some of the bits of lighting magic I managed to film before my phone went flat. The sound quality is awful. It is, afterall, an iPhone video. And we were sitting a long way away. As I write this I’m watching a Blur: Live at Hyde Park concert on ABC2. And I’m thinking “wouldn’t it be amazing to have musical talent and be in a band so you could perform to tens of thousands of screaming fans”…
Category: Consciousness
Where’s ya bin? I bin at the beach
You may be wondering why things have been a little quiet here until about three hours ago. The answer. I was at the beach for a little break with my wife, and my parents.
It was even sunny.
Heading to Townsville on Monday, so blogging may be sporadic again for a while. I might try to queue something up though…
Venn Theology: Stuff you might be missing
I’m still trying to figure out exactly what goes here and what goes there.
But in the last few days you might have missed these posts at Venn Theology (my new serious blog)…
1. Reasons you might be really terrible at Powerpoint.
2. Colours and branding and marketing and what they say about you and your product.
3. My lovely wife Robyn is posting her most excellent essay on Daniel in an eight part series. And would love your comments.
4. I’m unpacking my newly developed (or developing) approach to interpreting the Bible by grasping the historical context… ok, it’s not new, but I’m hopefully going to show the benefits of adopting such an approach. Here’s a follow up video with history professor/Biblical scholar/all round good guy Edwin Judge.
Shredded Creed
There’s a series of videos on YouTube of “popular” bands being redubbed with badly played instruments. This Creed one made me laugh until I cried.
STOP PRESS: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: BREAKING NEWS
Did that headline get your attention? Good.
I have an important announcement to make.
My blog is splitting up.
My serious side is divorcing my silly side.
This will hopefully result in less frequent posts here, and a reduction of lengthy boring stuff. You can find the serious stuff at a new domain, one I originally registered because I planned to make thousands of Venn Diagrams. Venn Theology – it’s exploring the overlap between things I’m passionate about – Christianity, Communication, and Culture.
It won’t be as boring as it sounds. Hopefully it’ll be thought provoking and engaging, I’m going to try to up the quality of posts, keeping it as useful as I can, and hopefully making a positive contribution to the broader church with my experience and/or expertise in the realm of marketing and public relations, and I’ll be putting together as many useful resources for ministry, and surviving bible college as I can.
For the next little while the content on Venn Theology will be some old stuff from around these parts refreshed and republished. You can subscribe to Venn Theology’s RSS feed here, and, if you haven’t already – the St. Eutychus feed here.
What this means for St. Eutychus is more of the same, but Cornetto style – no boring bits.
Busy, busy, busy
Apologies for the stagnation. My little sister is getting married tomorrow, and I’m preaching on Sunday. So expect it to continue for a couple of days.
I will try to find interesting things to say in the meantime.
Last exam today
Today is D Day. Or ד ים. I have my final exam for the year, and despite being on the last day possible it’s the exam I feel least prepared for. I think I only need to get thirty percent in the exam in order to pass… so I should be ok. But remind me next year not to neglect my languages for the sake of my essays.
Oh. And if you’re the praying type – 10am. I’d appreciate it.
Don’t pray that I get what I deserve, pray for mercy.
St. Eutychus: Now with (hiddenish) ads
So. I just thought I should make this clear. I don’t have ads on my blog (unless you count the occassional reference to my T-Shirt store on Cafepress (currently with one T-Shirt, possibly with more during the holidays), or the plugging of my coffee roasting services (I just got a fresh 10kg of Green Beans to roast – hit up the order form…).
Sometimes, if I remember, mentions of a book will also take you to Amazon in a way that would, if you purchased something, result in a small commission for me. I don’t do that often. Because Book Depository is cheaper.
Anyway, when I installed Google’s search thing in the header, it came bundled with adwords. So now, if you search for something, you’ll notice there are ads with the search results. Click them and I get a few cents. I’m still opposed to the idea of having ads all over the site. I don’t know why.
Thrilling News
Dear readers,
Thank you for your patience with my excruciating number of exam related posts in the last two weeks. My fellow students like it, and it helps me to clarify my thoughts.
You will be glad to know that other than a couple of Greek posts I might make in the next day or two, the exam related content is over and done with for another nine months.
I now return you to the regular irregularity that is st-eutychus.com.
Regards,
Nathan
Mail from strangers
So spam commenters are nice, but random strangers who email you are not. That’s what I’ve learned this week after I received this email from a random:
“How does it feel to be an utter and complete idiot who bases his entire life on ancient mythology with no basis in reality?”
It feels pretty good, Brad Johnson, from wherever you are. It feels pretty good.
Seriously. Feel free to email me using that email address up the top of the page – I’ll only reply in an insulting manner if you’re somebody like Brad Johnson who just wants to show me that you think you’re smarter than me.
Mo money, mo problems
Are you Movembering? I would if I could. But I can’t. My mo don’t grow. This year I even tried growing it a month in advance.
And that’s the results…
Which is a shame. Because Movember is awesome. This is what internet activism and awareness raising should look like. Not some stupid innuendo based “secret” campaign.
So, instead of calling for people to donate to my Movember efforts – I’m encouraging you to donate to my friend Paul’s efforts. Plus, he has a ranga mo – so he needs all the support he can get…
I love the marketing campaigns and stuff springing up around Movember.
And especially these pictures, which were what mo-tivated me to write this post to begin with.
Moustaches make a difference…
These, and more, via Scary Ideas.
Joining a gang
I appear to have joined some sort of gang. You can join it too (if you’re on Facebook). It’s called “Don’t Stare at Bears Carrying Pineapples” – and it has an important message to share with the world.
Join up. There are badges.
And weird bears with pineapples (though this one does appear to be a koala).
Staring at the Sun
Was anybody else told, by their primary school art teacher, that you shouldn’t draw pictures of the sun, or the sun in your pictures, because you never look at the sun? Or whatever the reason was? Admittedly, most of my sun drawings included personifying the sun with some sort of smiley face, and even though I went to a public school they were probably interested in my not venerating the sun or something…
I’m not a great artist anyway, but one thing I have decided I really like is photographs that include the sun. If I were a professional photographer (and I’m not close by any stretch of the imagination) then that would be my schtick. My signature style.
I went through a few photo albums on my Mac yesterday (when I was recovering from my church history exam) and put together this collection.
Now I can just stare at the sun whenever I want (plus, the silhouette effect it can give is really cool)…
The world’s slowest Meme response: The NSFW Workplace
NSFW. Four letters that spell danger on the Internet. But what do you do if your workplace itself is not safe for work?
About a year ago (possibly more, possibly less) somebody (I think it was Ben) tagged me in a meme where you had to show off your desk. And I didn’t. I took a photo of my desk (I have a few workplaces) looking very tidy. But I was a little reluctant to take a photo of my office. Which in our house is called the “naked lady room”… I’ve actually been doing some study in there this week. So I’ve decided to put aside my shame, and post this picture of the room (that’s a photo of my fully clothed wife on the screen of the computer lest you get any other ideas).
Now, I don’t want to lead a brother astray (or a sister) so if you find seventies style pixelated wallpaper featuring black and white nipples at all tempting. Do not click this link to see the wall paper in that room in full detail.
Can somebody tell me what whoever was designing this was thinking? Let alone whoever decided to put it up in that room…
Oh, and here’s the photo of my desk.
Meme win.I can’t imagine the spam comment this is going to get.
The Dancing Barista
This post, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should read Ben’s blog Vanishing Point if you don’t already.
