Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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Hurricanes 16 – Waratahs 14 And a nail-biter to the end. More at Planet-Rugby.com: Hurricanes sneak into the Final.
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Hurricanes to host the Warratahs tonight at the Cake Tin in the first Super-14 semi-final. Be still my beating heart. (Web colours modified to reflect eschatological hope) Go the ‘Canes!
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Wired has an interview with Douglas Coupland about his new novel jPod (official site), an sort-of sequel to Microserfs (one of my all time favourite books). See Wired 14.05: A Tale of Two Couplands.
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A click on the “Publish” button in Ecto instead of the “Save” button will have given a odd posting. Apologies to all and sundry. I’ve been reading several of the books from the British Film Institute’s Modern Classics series while I revised the introductory chapter to the thesis. Skimming through the books on The Matrix…
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Received a copy of the Families Commission summary report for What Makes Your Family Tick? today in the mail. Opened up the little booklet and saw this, If that isn’t a vision of what the kingdom of God is, with the wholeness of shalom, then I don’t know what is. That all our communities, families…
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The 2006 Human Rights Film Festival is on during May in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. Picked up a promotional booklet from a local newsagent yesterday and had a skim though. All of it looks interesting. Of particular interest to me is the following, FROZEN ANGELS Germany/USA 2005, 91 mins, Directors: Eric Black & Frauke Sandig…
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Just read Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys at high speed. Loved it. Couldn’t put it down. (Unlike his “American Gods” which I never finished). Will be trying to get the audio book read by Lenny Henry. This, of course, might be the result of fond childhood memories of Anansi stories – though I have no idea…
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Feeling deluged by the thesis and the effort to get it finished (before it finishes me off 🙂 ) Blog posts will therefore be few and far between for the forseeable future.
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More at gapingvoid: selling more stormhoek.
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Today was spent doing admin stuff before heading off to the Science and Theology Consultation conference in Canberra tomorrow morning. Smallest child had a tummy bug relapse so he was around too. Swinging through Melbourne tomorrow and Friday (no direct flight to Canberra) and catching up with a few folk there. Now trying to get…