3 today. Kooragang Island at sunset is a visual feast [ugly coal and chemicals notwithstanding].
The last photo was taken from the top of our street as I was nearing home.
x100.365 #65: Butterflies
These have a special meaning when they’re used on a certain delivery suite room board.
I took this after covering a session for Heartfelt in one such room.
x100.365 #64: Beware the recluse
If you’ve ever tried to get close to this place, you already know about the fearsome “no trespassing” signs.
The dogs couldn’t get to me from this vantage point.
So, ner, Mr/Ms Recluse.
x100.365 #63: Irrigation of learners
x100.365 #62: Rego
Farewell, rego stickers. I won’t miss you. Not even a little.
x100.365 #61: Das Clicky Clicky
Last month, I joined all those other geeks and started using a retro (but not) mechanical keyboard.
It’s very clicky.
Thankfully it hasn’t woken up the children. So far. That I know of.
April Fool’s
The really ironic thing about April Fool’s is that it’s the only day of the year that anyone is even remotely skeptical of the Internet.
Thomas Jefferson, via The Callus
Side note: I enjoy April Fool’s Day pranks, and have been known to pull some of them myself, but I’m a little troubled by the expense involved in certain stunts. Daring Fireball makes a reasonable point.
x100.365 #60: Lollypop
When mourning the accidental loss of one’s milkshake, one should find solitude on the back of a friendly-looking concrete turtle, and suck quietly on a lollypop.
Conceding defeat
Best intentions notwithstanding, it was all but impossible to get out for quality time with strangers in March. Most significantly, my mother-in-law’s second fight with cancer came to a sudden, tragic end on the 18th. I’ll write more about that in due course, but for now, I’m declaring March an x100.365 write-off, and unlike “old Luke”, I’m refusing to feel guilty about it.
Normal programming will resume in April. “31 strangers in 31 days” will happen later in the year.
This is not an April Fool’s joke. I’m all out of those.
John Piper on Roman Catholic “heresy”
John Piper on Roman Catholic “heresy”
A timely and helpful post from John Piper, I reckon:
God’s mercy is not a warrant to neglect or deny precious truths, especially those that are at the heart of how we get right with God. And the teachers of the church (notably the Pope) will be held more responsible than others for teaching what is fully biblical.
Idolatry aside, this is a pretty good summary of why I’m not a Catholic, why I have major problems with Catholic theology, and why I totally respect many Catholic individuals regardless.