Something Imaginative

Year: 2009

  • The Island of Reason

    The first few months had been nothing but rage. Each time, each stake, had been revenge. The number of times he had paid back his father’s death on one of the monsters was incalculable. Just like the times he had avenged his mother by slowly pulling one out into the daylight. They were simply monsters,…

  • Alone

    He stumbled over the stones on the mountain, and put his hand out to steady himself. He sighed, and pulled his dirty jacket around him. He looked towards the small grey line that winds through these hills. He liked the silence of the mountains. He liked the soft tinkle of the water. Most of all…

  • Roleplaying Purity Test

    Your Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score Category Your Score Average Hacklust 35.85%Has conversations in between massacres 53.6% Sensitive Roleplaying 13.92%There is no player. There is only…. Zuul. 54.7% GM Experience 18.12%Worldbuilder, storyteller… Master. 69.3% Systems Knowledge 91.53%Played in a couple of campaigns 90.4% Livin’ La Vida Dorka 32.18%Carries dice in pocket ‘just in case’ 63.3% You…

  • Picture Perfect

    Michael stamped his feet against the cold, and blew into his cupped hands. Not for the first time that night he contemplated his warm flat. He pulled the collar up on his coat, and went back to contemplating the window. This was becoming a little tedious. All he wanted was to be able to take…

  • Birch 0.5 BETA

    Hello All, It’s a very proud day for me. After 10 years of Coding, Birch has finally made it to BETA. I know that sounds a bit crazy, but I keep moving the goal-posts for what it needs to do to be a release client. Essentially it has to do the same as the other…

  • The Church In Wales’ View of Ordination (sort of)

    I needed to do this as a quick presentation for a Class, so I thought I’d post it here for people who may be looking for a quick over-view. Church In Wales’ View of Ordination Anglican View of Ordination There are three main orders in the Anglican Church, two of which a person is traditionally…

  • Return of the Snoop

    Here’s a quick place-holder where I can upload the Snoop, a more permenant home will be with us snoon! snoop1911-1109 ~BX

  • A Sermon on Mark 13:1-8

    Here’s a recording of the Sermon I preached this morning based on the Gospel Reading of Mark 13:1-8. Feel free to read the full script, in PDF here: Mark13-1-8-LightAndDarkness You can also hear the Sermon, including the Gospel Reading here. Please any comments that you have on this post. All feedback helps improve my sermons…

  • Birch – Updated

    For those of you that have been reading this blog a while, you may have noticed the occasional addition of a Zip file called “Birch”. This is the IRC client that I have been writing, and re-writing for a very, very long time. I have been writing in Java mostly as a way of keeping…

  • Fridge Magnet

    Today I was given a Fridge Magnet. It’s something that’s going to go in my “Rainy Days and Mondays” file. It was the simplest of gifts, yet the story behind it was… well, huge. Let me start somewhere that could be thought of as the Begining. Last Week, I preached a Sermon. It was a…

  • The Bible, Explained by 4Chan

    Sometimes you come across some wonderful views of the Bible. Things like the “Top Shelf” Nature of it, or some-one coming up with an brief, but surprisingly accurate (from a certain point of view) praise of the Bible. Enjoy here Also, Jews sank the Titanic.* ~BX *Note: It’s a joke. I thought it was funny.

  • Jan Moir : Can you believe it?

    As you know by now, Jan Moir, a columnist of the Daily Mail has written a hateful article on the death of Stephen Gately. She insinuates that being Gay is what caused his tragic death. I figured there was no point putting up something as the news broke, ever man and his cyberpet was doing…

  • A commentry on “I am the Truth, the Way, and the Life”

    Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6, NRSV This is one of those lines that quite annoys us liberals. It seems to portray a very narrow-minded view of God, and not one that sits quite happily with…

  • First Time

    The black van pulled up to the farm house. James leaned forward to look at it, past Marcus, the driver. “You know, in all those films, that would be a wooden house, not a think stone walled house, with doors that look so sturdy you need a battering ram to get through them” “Dem’s de…

  • The Office

    Susan Webster sat on her packing boxes, and looked around her now-packed house. She had lived there in a not-so happy marriage with her Husband for the past 20 years. She’s thought they were doing okay. The talking had slowed down, and he had started spending more time at work, but that was normal for…