The only thing sadder than an abandoned blog, is one full of apologies for not posting anything interesting. Suffice to say, it has been a roller-coaster couple of months, and I’ve struggled to get my head around it, nevermind find the words to explain it to whoever reads this.
I’m starting to see now how much [...]
I still have one more week of work and then two weeks off before my DTS (Discipleship Training School) starts, but I’ve moved up to the Belfast YWAM base which is where I’ll be for the next 6 months. It came as a bit of a surprise to realise that my friends weren’t speaking figuratively [...]
From Ananova …
A German pensioner who won £2 million on the lottery refused the cash because he didn’t know what to do with it.
The 70-year-old man from Hameln, Lower Saxony, went to the HQ of the German lottery association in Hanover after finding out about his win and told them he did not want the [...]
Today I submitted my PhD thesis. It represents 4 years of study, research, experiments and stress (I’ve been working full time as well for the last 8½ months). Things have been absolutely hectic recently as I’ve finished up the writing.
I think its fair to say that right now, I probably know more about audio-visual speech [...]
Denise O’Leary highlights a newspaper column by a fellow Toronto journalist who is frustrated at getting angry complaint letters everytime he writes about evolution. IMHO it describes perfectly the sort of people who email me to tell me how stupid I am. Here’s an excerpt…
…we must ask ourselves why so many people get so excited [...]
Continue reading about Apoplectic Darwinists in my inbox too
Sometimes I feel bad that my PhD has taken me almost 4 years so far, but at least it hasen’t taken me 36 years like Brian May. It’s due September 15th, so right now my life consists of working 9 to 5, coming home and then working on my PhD. Not a lot of fun [...]
I got such a touching and moving email today which inspires me to post much more often…
Having read your web site and this conversation I cannot imagine a more deluded person I have ever come across in this world. What happened to you as you grew up? did your parents drop you on [...]
Continue reading about Conversations with militant atheists, part I
I’m torn. One the one hand its an offensive sectarian statement, which will destroy part of a road. On the other hand it got me out of work early. They kindly left the pavement free for cars to get around it, as demonstrated by the mini in the above picture. My office is just through [...]
Happy Birthday to me! I’m 26…it’s all downhill from here on
Last night, some friends and I went swimming in the sea at Helen’s Bay. It was absolutely freezing and I stayed in so long I ended up numb all over. But it was fun, and spontaneous, and the sort of thing I hope [...]
Canon 50mm is dead, long live Sigma 50mm! I’ve gotten over last week’s loss pretty quickly with the help of a new Sigma 50mm f2.8 DG Macro lens.
It’s just an amazing lens with 1:1 macro so I get right up close to things and get the sort of detail you don’t normally see. I’m dying [...]
