Greenflame

Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand

Category: General

  • A book or three with real maps

    Russell Kirkpatrick is a geography lecturer and writer of fantasy novels from down the road in Hamilton. I’ve just finished reading his “Fire of Heaven” trilogy, which was a good read for the stage I’m at in the thesis (i.e. something with no robots in it that is easy to read). An interesting mixture of…

  • Animated Knots

    Quite possibly the most helpful (and interesting) web site I’ve seen for ages. Love those animations. See Animated Knots by Grog

  • Too much red in my black and gold

    With it now being over 48 hours since Waikato (37) defeated Wellington (31) (also known as the Cathari) I’ve recovered enough to extend my thanks to all the Waikato supporters who emailed me (and left the odd comment here) after the game. Your thoughts are, as always, much appreciated. (See, such magnanimity.) Anyway, I enjoyed…

  • Interlude

    Woke up this morning to this news item on the radio alarm clock. Not a good way to start the day. (Audio at: Radio New Zealand: Morning Report: Auckland University Reputation (Windows Media Stream)). Still, job interview tomorrow. (And I have no idea how that will go) I guess it’s time to decide whether I…

  • Bring it on!

    Wellington 30 – 15 Auckland at Eden Park. Otago or Waikato next week. Bring on the final!

  • Food: What’s for dinner?

    I like the food column in the Listener each week. A nice mix of chatty information as well as a recipe or two. A few weeks back the regular writer, Lois Daish, wrote about how for many families dinner (or tea) revolves around a simple repertoire of seven favourite meals. In the article she cites…

  • Discworld Cake

    Now that’s a pretty awesome looking cake – Discworld Cake

  • Incarnate

    A follow up to the post a few days ago on e-mail being for old people. Seems that some tech-gen youth are deciding that the face-to-face, flesh and blood, incarnate path is the one to take. See Wired News: Some Tech-Gen Youth Go Offline. From the article, “True friends,” he tells them, “need to learn…

  • Go you good things!

    At the end of a frustrating week the real Wellington turned up to play Canterbury in the Air New Zealand Cup quarter-finals. Wellington 36 – 23 Canterbury. Often, we beat Canterbury in the round-robin and then they thrash us in the semi-finals. Not this time. See Wellington bulldoze Canterbury – Stuff.co.nz.

  • On the raggedy edge

    Spent the day wrestling my CV into some sort of hybrid beast. I have an academic CV and a technological/IT CV but needed a blend of these for a job application I’m making. Given that there’s nothing going around the place for theologians at the moment (<insert long list of reasons here – mostly to…