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A dirty blackboard

A dirty blackboard

I was in this business meeting a few weeks ago. There was three of us and we sat around this table and the table was actually a blackboard. .

  • Freezer and oven

    I have been thinking about the intelligence of humans in creating freezers and ovens. A few days ago these two tools caught my attention. I was thankful to live in an age where we have all of these facilities that have made life much easier. I was appreciating the minds that have invented and made both the oven and the freezer.

  • Is the bible as unreliable as Wikipedia?

    Remember the days of the multivolume encyclopedia? Not long ago nearly every home had a set gathering dust on the bookcase.

  • Thinking matters – Our starving souls

    "We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization".

  • The new F word

    The f-word.

  • Five times I was all-in, one time I wasn't.

    My commitment to my community was questioned the other day. People wondering whether or not I was 'all-in' were finding it tough to entrust me with some influential positions. Not all positions and not all people, but some.

  • Football far more than the pitch

    The Premier League, better known as the English Premier League (EPL) here in Australia gets under way next weekend with all the usual suspects in-line for the title and as usual the occasional surprise by an underling.

  • Facts vs. truth

    "The doctors may tell you the facts, but I will tell you the truth!"

  • The problem with 'first world problems'

    I took such a long shower this morning that the hot water ran out #firstworldproblems

  • Alice the camel

    When I was two years old, I spat at my Grandmother. We were driving about the town of Hamilton, me - locked in my cage of child restraints, her a picture of warmth with her golden skin and Elizabeth Arden's Red Door seeping from her pours - when she turned to me and as all good Grandma's do, began provoking me.

  • When the going gets tough

    During my American summer working as a Waterfront Manager I have dealt with storms, fire alarms, actual fires, canoe accidents, broken equipment, children who can't swim, personality clashes, illness and even the waterfront itself being closed.

  • I went to Los Angeles

    I hate the term \"mission trip\", not just because it splits life into mission activities and non mission activities, but because it suggests that the people that go on mission trips have the goods and they\'re going to get those goods to people further down the rungs.