Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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Picked up a bug last week that left me feeling really tired (lots of coughing at night instead of sleeping) and I’ve got a reasonable lot on this week. Firstly, I’m off the the Stardome tomorrow for the day as a parent helper for a school trip. I’ve been looking forward to it, but hope…
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Had a good weekend when we had two barbecues (one here and one at a friends). On Saturday we hosted the end of season gathering for Mark’s soccer team. 37 people (13 adults + 24 children) came spent the afternoon here – we had sausages on the barbecue plus other good food and drink. Very…
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It’s Friday, which is normally my evening of space opera – Andromeda followed by Star Trek : Enterprise. But Andromeda finished last week leaving the total amount of space opera across all channels as Doctor Who and Enterprise. TVNZ seems to have dropped the ball on Stargate (Stargate on TVNZ) and I guess in NZ…
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It’s a lovely day outside – a blue sky, crisp air and warm sun. I’m at my desk in the postgrad area in the Carey library but that’s not so bad because I have a view out of the window. Plus the All Blacks’ last minute victory over South Africa on Saturday and the English…
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Church agencies to join major climate change coalition – news from ekklesia
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Heard something like this today from a friend of mine who thought I’d be interested in looking at a bright Mars in the sky tonight. But there’s no evening Mars in the sky at the moment – just Venus and Jupiter over in the north-west. The Stardome here at Auckland has this article about some…
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I wonder if we’ll get them here? Wired News: Star Trek Phone Set to Thrill.
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Received several copies of the book “Portraits : Youth” today in the post. It’s a really excellent little book that is both a photo collage of young people in New Zealand together with a part of their own stories (including insights into their various ethnic communities). It’s available from the Office of Ethnic Affairs for…
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Slow day today after I had a few old fillings drilled out and redone today. Tried to treat it as a practical exercise for the thesis. After all, in one of his articles about technology David Lyon asked the question, “Where is the boundary of the body—at the skin, or elsewhere?” At the enamel possibly?…
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FedEx’s lawyers get all tetchy over a guy who made his own furniture out of their (used) shipping materials and then posted the pictures of it on the net. Sounds like a creative form of recycling to me. More at :Wired News: Furniture Causes FedEx Fits.