Richard Huss’s Weblog

This evening I came up with a great idea for a web app: a site where you can key in the details of all the Lego(TM) sets you own, declare any bits you know you have lost, and it suggests new things for you to build with the bits from those combined sets. Simple!

Now I just need to come up with an idea for actually making money doing this without getting sued by Lego(TM)…

Spot the deliberate mistake. Why do I only ever notice these things after printing and laminating the posters?

Today No. 1 child and I visited the Midland Railway Centre near Ripley. Interesting place… about 1.5 out of 5 for the toilets. St. Saviour’s Church at Swanwick, a tin church moved from Westhouses, got bonus minus marks for having a copy of the New World Translation of the Bible…

But one of the highlights was this delightful piece of poetry, on display in “Johnson’s Buffet”. At least, it looks like it’s meant as poetry.

(Click to read)

So the time has come for the Diocese of New Westminster to threaten to suspend J. I. Packer. On one level inevitable given his parish’s decision to leave the Anglican Church of Canada for the Southern Cone. But if you needed proof that something was very badly wrong in a large chunk of the Anglican Communion, here it is.

I met him once, very briefly, at St. Michael’s, Aberystwyth. I commented positively on his tie, which bore the likeness of an American 4-4-0 steam locomotive. I was rather surprised when he replied “Ah, those of us who love the railways have even more in common than our shared love of Jesus Christ!”

• “Mothering Sunday” is an anagram of “unorganised myth”.
• Our new 1:4 VGA distribution amplifier requires a male-to-female lead to connect it to the laptop, rather than the more common male-to-male lead.
• It is a good idea to bring all possible computer leads to church, to make sure you have the right one to hand when you find that your new toy requires the opposite gender of connector to the one you expected (see above).
• You can get from church to our house and back in around 10 minutes.
• It is a good idea to make sure you know exactly when in the service a particular media item is required on the projector screen.
• Getting things out of the cupboard in the vestry is easy. Getting them back in is harder.
• The tie clip for the lapel microphone was not, in fact, still attached to my jacket following last week’s sermon.
• It is hard to find lapel microphone tie clips when they are lost in a tangle of purple rope (such as that used for lowering a casket of ashes into a hole in the churchyard). But it is good to persevere.