This week, we had a look at a couple of actual verses in Greek: instances where what we have been learning will help us see extra layers of meaning in the text that can’t be seen by looking just at the English. We learned the subtle difference between purpose (what you’re seeking to achieve) and …
Monthly Archives: August 2007
what’s anti-aliasing?
At a writing workshop on the weekend, we were learning about print layouts: I happened to mention “anti-aliasing”, but not everyone had heard of it. In this short post, I make a fumbling attempt to explain the process. When you try and represent something complicated in not enough pixels, you have to make it a …
Movie: Die Hard 4.0
Movie: Die Hard 4.0 52-year old Bruce Willis reprises the name, if not actually the character of the hero-cop who’s always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some impressive action scenes mixed with painful computer-related dialogue and a bad guy who makes more mistakes than all of the previous bad guys put together. …
There’s a buco in my osso
[Abstract Gourmet] Matt shows how both the cooking, and the blogging about it afterwards is done: There’s a buco in my osso.
canadian big things
[julie] For fans of the Big Things of Australia, you’ll appreciate this Gallery of Canadian big things – especially the squid.
honey mustard chicken
honey mustard chicken I’d volunteered to cook dinner tonight, but had no idea what to cook. First-time reader Cass left a comment on an old post about cooking with chicken, and I thought “why not”? Behold, honey mustard chicken. Two brown onions, a generous amount of garlic, small amount of olive oil. About half a …
first city to surf
Ran my first ever city to surf today. I was hoping for a time of 100 minutes or less, but I was a little over that: time will tell, but I think it was somewhere around 104 minutes (though it took me three-and-a-half just to get to the starting line after the “back-of-pack” horn was …
die hard trilogy
With Die Hard 4.0’s arrival on the big screen, I thought it would be a good idea to review the earlier Die Hard movies. Die Hard (1988),Die Harder (1990), andDie Hard with a Vengeance (1995) are available in any number of different DVD editions: how have they stood the test of time? It’s very odd …
Giant Swiss Army Knife
Seems like a prank, but perhaps a real product – Giant Swiss Army Knife
eliza ferrie lecture: exodus
As if I haven’t spent enough time this week listening to theological lectures, I thought’d go along to the eliza ferrie lecture. It started with a tribute to, and a book launch of (old testament theologian and lecturer) bill dumbrell. At eighty, he is still lecturing part time, and so it was good to be …