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The Sound Of Music rocks!

By Symon ⋅ April 30, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

I have a confession to make… I, Burton, think The Sound Of Music rocks! …And that would make me cool (because we all know that anyone into retro stuff is rather hip). Another, even more shocking confession… We even own two copies of the DVD ( original and special anniversary edition). I do believe a [...]

Angel Of Death?

By Symon ⋅ April 28, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I was enduring the trailer of Hellboy 2 recently when I saw the disturbing images of a creature with eyes on its wings (on the trailer that is, not in real life ;-). My mind immediately thought about the Bible’s description of heavenly creatures in Revelation Chapter 4… In the center and around the throne [...]

Fred and Barney’s Nicotine addiction

By Symon ⋅ April 27, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Anyone in their 30′s and older will remember well the Flintstones. The cartoon was one of my all-time favourites and I reminisce (with nostalgic happiness) the 80′s when the show screened every school day around 4pm. Any cultured kidult will know that the Flintstones equal retro cartoonsville at its very best. I even named my [...]

Rich

By Symon ⋅ April 21, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

A reasonable mortgage, four kids, one dog… bills. Sometimes it’s a challenge to make ends meet… but God is always faithful, and it’s nothing short of supernatural how He meets our needs (and the occasional want). This morning I stumbled upon a very interesting website called: http://www.globalrichlist.com/. The site calculates your rank in the world’s [...]

The Tunguska Catastrophe

By Symon ⋅ April 15, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

I had never ever heard of the name Tunguska before… until I bought a PC game (for the kids) called Secret files: Tunguska. Then I became enlightened to an extremely fascinating and equally mysterious event which occurred 101 years ago in Central Siberia. In the Tunguska region at 7:17am on 30 June 1908 something of [...]

Symon and the Real Girl

By Symon ⋅ April 6, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

It’s our wedding anniversary today. I was scrummaging through my shed this morning (as you do on your wedding anniversary) and found my Best Man’s wedding speech. Wayne, you did a legendary job with this, and it still makes me crack up thirteen years later! So for a window into our life almost a decade [...]

My close encounter with a UFO… cult

By Symon ⋅ April 4, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

It was a fateful night in 1997 when the Aetherius Society came to town to promote their religion. For those who don’t know what the Aetherius Society is (I’m guessing about 99.9% of the people reading this post), it is a UFO cult. I was a zealous (and somewhat tactless) Bible College student at the [...]

Robo Croc: The future of jaw enforcement

By Symon ⋅ April 1, 2009 ⋅ One comment

On a lonely road in Florida keys last year a crocodile had the misfortune of having its head run over by a rather large vehicle (probably granny’s SUV). Subsequently, it’s snout was crushed, and being unable to move it’s jaw, the ‘poor’ animal hadn’t eaten for months. Enter Douglas Mader, of Marathon Veterinary Hospital… the [...]