K Car...revisited

Five years and counting...(2)

Quote...

(William Easum in Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers)

If you don't give my football back...

Enjoying the World Cup? I didn't know what to do with myself today. It'll be the same tomorrow. The games will be back on Friday!

I'm driving them all mad here singing 'If you don't give my football back I'm gonna get my dad on you'. That adidas ad is on here all the time. If you haven't seen it here it is in its full version (warning: the second one is a parody that some may find offensive):

Joke

What's the difference between Jurassic Park and the Church of England*?

(*insert your own church of preference)

One is a forgotten world ruled by dinosaurs and the other is a blockbuster movie.

(from The Salvationist, 17 June, 2006)

Five years and counting...

It hardly seems like it, but we arrived here in Elliot Lake 5 years ago on 28 June, 2001. Emily was 2 years old and Cameron was born the next day. There's been many good times and many challenges, but we're still glad to be here and would like to have many more years here yet. That's not our decision, we have to leave that up to God and the S.A.

(our house and church are visible in the bottom right hand corner of the above photo)

Released today...

I knew I wouldn't be able to get it in Elliot Lake, so I pre-ordered it and will receive a limited edition 7" vinyl single free as well. Hopefully I'll receive it by the end of the week. Order yours now!

Father's Day Shirts

I got the following couple of shirts from the kids on Sunday:

Scots invented the beautiful game

Amongst many other great inventions (click here for more) it has become apparent that football was also a Scottish invention. The fololowing was in today's The Scotsman:

Scots invented beautiful game
(EBEN HARRELL)

Newly discovered book suggests that Scots invented football.
Passage is said to describe "players passing the ball forward and attempting to score past a goalkeeper".
However, we're still not in the World Cup.

Key quote:
"The English are quick to claim they invented football. I think this book proves they didn't. Alas it is small consolation, considering we aren't in Germany to compete for the World Cup." - Alan Duncan of the Tartan Army

SCOTLAND may not be at the World Cup, but the country can at least lay claim to having invented football, following the translation of a book written almost 400 years ago.

In 1633, more than 200 years before the Football Association was formed in England, David Wedderburn, a poet and teacher at Aberdeen Grammar School, described a match in his pocket-sized tome Vocabula.

While there are older descriptions of ball games involving kicking, historians say the Scottish manuscript, written in Latin, is the first to report on players passing the ball forward and attempting to score past a goalkeeper. A section of the book marks the kick-off: "Let's pick sides. Those who are on the outside, come over here. Kick off, so that we can begin the match ... Pass it here."

(click here for the rest of the story)

Actias Luna

This large moth was attached to our house for the past few days. Apparently it is a luna moth. It is gone now. This is the second year that I have seen one now. The one I saw last year was about nine inches across and it kind of freaked me when I first saw it (see below). I'm sure they have some purpose to life, but I've no clue what that is.

Who says Scotland's not going to the World Cup?

It starts today...

...without Scotland, again. Sixty-four matches in 31 days. In true Scottish fashion, I'll be shouting for whoever England are playing against. Of course, Trinidad and Tobago are the Scottish favourites, who in true Scottish form won't make it beyond the first round. I'd like to see the Dutch win, but who can beat Brazil?

Here's a compilation of Scottish goals, including the unforgettable Archie Gemmill goal against Holland in the '78 finals. Enjoy them!



Scored by: #1 Gordon McQueen (England 1-2 Scotland, 4 June 1977); #2 Kenny Dalglish (England 1-2 Scotland, 4 June 1977); #3 James McFadden (Scotland 1-0 Netherlands, 15 Nov 2003); #4 Gary Naysmith (Iceland 0-2 Scotland, 12 Oct 2002); #5 Darren Fletcher (Scotland 1-0 Lithuania, 11 Oct 2003); #6 Kenny Miller (Scotland 1-1 Italy, 3 Sept 2005); #7 David Narey (Scotland 1-4 Brazil, 18 June 1982); #8 Ally McCoist (Scotland 1-0 Switzerland, 18 Jun 1996); #9 Kenny Miller (Scotland 1-1 Germany, 7 June 2003); #10 Ally McCoist (Scotland 2-1 Romania, 12 Sept, 1990); #11 Kenny Dalglish (Wales 0-2 Scotland, 12 Oct 1977); #12 Don Hutchison (England 0-1 Scotland, 17 Nov 1999); #13 Ally McCoist (Scotland 1-1 Norway, 15 Nov 1989); #14 Neil McCann (Scotland 3-1 Faroe Islands, 6 Sept 2003); #15 Neil McCann (Germany 2-1 Scotland, 10 Sept 2003); #16 Donald Masson (Wales 0-2 Scotland, 12 Oct 1977); #17 Kenny Dalglish (Scotland 3-1 Czechoslovakia, 21 Sept 1977); #18 John Collins (Brazil 2-1 Scotland, 10 June 1998); #19 Paul McStay (Scotland 3-0 CIS, 18 June 1992); #20 Brian McClair (Scotland 3-0 CIS, 18 June 1992); #21 Christian Dailly (Iceland 0-2 Scotland, 12 Oct 2002); #22 Kenny Miller (Norway 1-2 Scotland, 7 Sept 2005); #23 Kenny Miller (Norway 1-2 Scotland, 7 Sept 2005); #24 Archie Gemmill (Scotland 3-2 Netherlands, 11 June 1978); #25 Darren Fletcher (Slovenia 0-3 Scotland, 12 Oct 2005); #26 James McFadden (Slovenia 0-3 Scotland, 12 Oct 2005); #27 Paul Hartley (Slovenia 0-3 Scotland, 12 Oct 2005); #28 Spain Own Goal (Spain 1-1 Scotland, 3 Sept 2004); #29 Ally McCost (Scotland 1-0 Greece, 16 Aug 1995); #30 Stuart McCall (Scotland 2-1 Sweden, 16 June 1990); #31 Kenny Miller (Austria 2-2 Scotland, 17 Aug 2005); #32 Archie Gemmill (Scotland 3-2 Netherlands, 11 June 1978); #33 Chris Burke (Scotland 5-1 Bulgaria, 11 May 2006); #34 Joe Jordan (Scotland 1-3 Peru, 3 June 1978); #35 Ally McCoist (Scotland 3-0 Malta, 17 Feb 1993); #36 Garry O'Connor (Austria 2-2 Scotland, 17 Aug 2005); #37 Paul Dickov (Scotland 3-1 Faroe Islands, 6 Sept 2003); #38 James McFadden (Scotland 3-1 Faroe Islands, 6 Sept 2003); #39 Ally McCoist (Scotland 2-0 Belgium, 14 Oct 1987); #40 Ally McCoist (Scotland 3-0 Malta, 17 Feb 1993); #41 James McFadden (Scotland 5-1 Bulgaria, 11 May 2006)

Belated birthday gift

I celebrated my 40th birthday in April. On Saturday I received my final, belated gift. Here it is...

For Dave and Trista

My blogging buddy, Dave, blogs at A day in the life...TSA Officership. Last week he posted a rather amusing story about a 'moth' his wife, Trista', discovered in their sons' bedroom (read it here). We found a moth in Cameron's room this evening. Here is a picture of it for future identification confusion:


Here is 'Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me' (theme from 'Batman Forever') by U2 in dedication to Dave and Trista's departed 'moth':

A borrowed quote

Just read this quote over at South Meadows and couldn't resist borrowing it for here. What comes to mind (if anything) as you read this?

Here's what often happens: Somebody comes along who has a fresh perspective on the Christian faith. People are inspired. A movement starts. Faith that was stale and dying is now alive. But then the pioneer of the movement - the painter - dies and the followers stop exploring. They mistakenly assume that their leader's words were the last ones on the subject, and they freeze their leader's words. They forgot that as that innovator was doing his or her part to move things along, that person was merely taking part in the discussion that will go on forever. And so in their commitment to what so-and-so said and did, they end up freezing the faith.

~Rob Bell in Velvet Elvis

Peter Garrett

I miss Midnight Oil. They were a great band, but it was obvious that Peter Garrett would end up in politics, although he gave the band 26 years. He is now the Labor Member for Kingsford Smith (in Australia) and is the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Reconciliation and the Arts.

I just added a link to his website to the panel on the left, so I thought I'd post the video for the classic Beds Are Burning as well. Enjoy...

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