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Quick rate: strong 1st half, weak 2nd half, averages out at ok.
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Day-broken
February 9th, 2010Random Miscellany, pt 1101
February 9th, 20101) I’m hoping that the only thing I need to change to get the Zotero translator I cooked up last year for the MTC library is to change the XPath references that search for the “viewmarctags” elements. It looks like they’ve gone from tables to data def lists. Shouldn’t be much of a problem, I hope.
2) I’m either going to get plenty of credit or plenty of scorn for his naming ideas. If the latter, it’s because no one else was willing. Here’s to that project seeing the light of day and staying there.
3) Thanks to Ben Adamo for his old mattress that has saved me from the comparatively new mattress that I’ve now repudiated. Previously, I didn’t think there was anything worse than a Merroo bed. I was wrong. Now my back is back to normal (sorry).
4) I’m coming back into Chappo over the next weekend. Looking forward to the new academic year, and liking that, thanks to semi-semesterisation of the 3rd year academic program, we won’t be having one hell of a final exam period yet again. W00t.
On Oatley
February 7th, 2010These holidays, I’ve had the chance to find out more about Oatley, this being the second summer I’ve spent there.
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Law Abiding Citizen?
February 5th, 2010### usual potential spoiler alert ###
quick-rate: predictable. lame. meh.
Projects for summer 09-10, redux
February 2nd, 2010From this post.
1) Convert a few pdf’s for publication at The Filing Cabinet – A few done, but not much done after December
2) Develop aforementioned Greek and Hebrew course – Greek, a fair bit done. Hebrew not so.
3) Teach Jacqui and Andy enough Greek to make them not panic during Greek weeks – mostly fail
4) Read these books
– currently at Barth. GK Beale has been lent out so won’t get done. Have CS Lewis, Hauerwas and the Exodus book to go. Unlikely to even start Hauerwas by the time College comes back.
5) That stuff I’m supposed to be doing that college told me to do. – Yep.
Facing the Future: Bishops imagine a Different Church
February 1st, 2010
Ed. Stephen Hale and Andrew Curnow
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Teaching the Faith, Forming the Faithful
February 1st, 2010by Gary A Parrett and S. Steve Kang
The struggles of developing a course
January 28th, 2010I’m presently hard at work (this is a relative term) working on the teaser Greek course. The challenge is not content per se. There’s plenty of Greek grammars out there, not to mention all that stuff Mounce put out, to source stuff from. And NT Greek has a limited corpus to work with.
So what’s the challenge? I thought it was coming up with examples and potential exercise material. But search functions and stealing using other people’s examples makes this doable.
The real challenge is trying to present what you need to present, knowing how to organise the material. What things must you talk about, and what things can you leave as something someone can reference later? I think I’m going to learn a fair bit when I actually get around to the actual teaching. And I have no idea when that is going to happen. Sigh.
Random Miscellany, pt 411.25
January 20th, 20101) My old swivel chair that I’ve had for, umm, a good 15 years or so, finally died – of metal fatigue. The point where the chair meets the swivel leg failed. Sigh.
2) When my parents were cleaning out the old car to trade-in, they found my old watch. Now, this watch is no ordinary watch. After suffering wrist-band failures on all my watches far too many times, I removed the broken wrist bands on this one and turned it into a pocket watch attached to my keyring. The battery had died, but there is a place in Mortdale that does nothing but sell batteries and battery related products.
3) I bought some games recently. I’d like to play them. I bought Robo-Rally and Dominion. Let me know if you’re interested in a board game night or something.
Random Miscellany, part 6.7 + 5i
January 18th, 20101) Calvin is done, and Wegner for NT is nearly done as well.
2) My parents bought a new car. Uncharacteristically for one my mum will normally drive, it’s a sedan. Also, because mum doesn’t want to reverse into the driveway especially with the dog leg at the start (a path I’ve managed to scrape once) she’s had to get practice with the reversing sensors and 20 point turns.
3) To meet non-Christians again, I’m getting back into TCG’s. YGO still sucks (generic power rares available in about every second retail pre-built deck, cards which make you wonder “How did such an awesome card not get neutered during playtesting?”). VS is still dead officially, but apparently some of the old gang are still playing casually.
4) I think helping people move and long walks around Oatley Park are proving to be the only ways for me to get anything resembling exercise.
