good old church songs

My little summer project (“Hey, wouldn’t it be fun to record a dozen of your favourite hymns?”) is done, and can be downloaded for free (or donation) here:

http://dalecampbell.bandcamp.com/

band album

I can be spotted sometimes playing piano, guitar and singing backing vocals at local Auckland pubs.  This is because I’m in an “alt-country folk” band called Great North.  We have a new album out soon, and an up-coming ‘mass’-three-destination tour.  We have a fancy website. We have a free download our our single ‘whales’ on our ‘bandcamp‘ page.  Enjoy if . . . → Read More: band album

phantom parabolas

Saw this morning on TV1 Breakfast – not much (anything? maybe this??) about it on the net yet…

But according to TVNZ, “maths teacher Philip Lloyd, an Auckland man who has made a maths-changing discovery to do with parabolas.” (though the date of the above forum post is 2003, and the name is TJ Evert!!??  hmmm…)

Anyway, the discovery is . . . → Read More: phantom parabolas

burdens

Humans are the most vulnerable and needy at the beginning and end of their lives.

Prof John Wyatt describes (mp3 – PDF) the feeling of caring for his mother, stricken with dementia:

Even when my mother was tragically affected by dementia she was still on the journey. Close to the end of her life I visited her in the nursing . . . → Read More: burdens

this blog

I’m often conflicted about the whole apologetics thing.

As long as people have honest questions1 about belief, then it remains a logically legitimate enterprise, but it can be taken too far easily.

For me, I’m interested in taking away needless barriers to faith2.  Increasingly for me, it’s been exciting to see just how complimentary an evolutionary understanding of nature is . . . → Read More: this blog

jesus & mo

Featuring on Richard-Dawkins-loving atheist blogs around the web, the “Jesus and Mo” atheist cartoons are doubly lazy1.  Because actually doing art and actually engaging with an issue is just too time-consuming…

the pictures remain the same with different speech boxes inserted – and the drivel in the speech boxes is yawn-inducing [↑]

mather God?

Check out (and contribute to!?) the online, editable, book (‘Not Only A Father‘) by Tim Bulkeley about gender language and God.

Yes – editable.

This is a new kind of book. A book you discuss with others, and with the author, as you read. It may even be edited and rewritten as a result of your comments.

Pretty neat idea . . . → Read More: mather God?

postflow

I incessantly think and type in footnotese.1  I constantly use parentheses2 to put thoughts within thoughts within thoughts.

Thanks to a funky plugin3, I can now make my nuances and additions viewable by hovering or clicking on the footnote number4 – all without breaking the flow of thought.5

this is probably just being lazy [↑]and hyphens [↑]http://elvery.net/drzax/wordpress-footnotes-plugin [↑]that’s it!!! [↑]sort . . . → Read More: postflow

tweaking

I’ve been getting the site back to something of the look it had on the old Atahualpa version, and adding little bits and pieces.  Comments/suggestions welcome.

I’m also adding (soon) a page where I’ll make some of my music available – eek!

update

as you’ll have seen, i’ve updated my theme – it’ll take a bit of jiggling (when I get time here/there) to get it where I want it… but the new version of atahualpa has a lot of theme options!