The Internet Is Big

I see recent hits of my blog from Oslo, Norway and Canberra, Australia. Wow, this here Internet thing is gosh-darn big. Too bad I don't have anything intelligentsia to say. Oooohhh... dig it.

Oh Canada

I seem to have unwittingly convinced several people in my office (my boss included) that I am Canadien. Unfortunately I can't quite pull it off but it would be downright handy, it would explain my weirdness and eccentricity so well.

The Rumours of My Premature Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.

After calling and wishing my Mum a most joyous Mother’s Day, I spent most of Sunday in the quaint village of Buckley with Aimee and her parents. Over the past week I had burned a few topical and (what I thought to be) very good sermons by Matt Chandler from The Village and Darrin Patrick from The Journey for Aimee to enjoy. These sermons covered some ‘biblical roles/ 1 Corinthians/ Ephesians type stuff’. Aimee then had her Mum listen to these and I received the fallout of that yesterday. Literally not two minutes from when all four of us entered their car did it take for Aimee’s Mum to lay into me about how “dangerous” it is for a pastor to teach of wives submitting to their husbands. I then had to endure a thirty-minute diatribe of her Mum’s opinion of biblical marriage through the filter of her own particular flavour of 1970’s era feminism. I refer to her speech as a ‘diatribe’ because one does not speak with her Mum as much as one is spoken to. Having absolutely no desire to engage in warfare with my probable Mother-in-law, what few times I managed to breathe defence were only suggestions for her to read the Bible if she had issue with it and not to reference a History Channel special on how chauvinist the human authors of the Bible were. She was clearly viewing the Bible through her chosen lens and not letting the Bible be the lens that she looks out unto culture. My few feeble attempts to change the encounter into an actual conversation failed miserably and the three of us were treated to four hours of a fifty-three year old woman sulking over an engagement that she herself started and dominated. It made for a memorable Mother’s Day 2007 to be sure.

Podcast of the Week

On a lighter note; I’ve had the pleasure of listening to a really great podcast of two former high-school lads, Jerry and Mike. It seems that they are the creative tour de force behind Penny Arcade; a gaming site/comic/extravaganza. The comic is rather funny when I can get past the gamer culture and stick my fork into a hearty slab of comedy and the podcast is pure comedic gold, so much so that I would describe it as “funnier than Hell” (which I hope most things would be).