When I am not working I sometimes think I know something. But when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing
Hi. I'm Tom. This is a collection of things I found silly, thought provoking, or just plain interesting.
Posted 23 hours ago
When I am not working I sometimes think I know something. But when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing
Posted 3 days ago

I was taught by Simon Gathercole while at Aberdeen and really enjoyed this interview.
via The Gospel Coalition:
Peter Williams (right), warden at Tyndale House, Cambridge, and Simon Gathercole (center), senior lecturer in New Testament Studies at Cambridge University, have reached the highest levels of scholarship and maintained evangelical faith. But how?
Justin Taylor sat down last month with these two accomplished scholars in Louisville and discussed the challenges of maintaining robust orthodoxy in academia and the importance of the local church. He kicked off the conversation by asking Williams to offer a short explanation for why we should take note of Gathercole’s research on the Gospel of Thomas.
Posted 3 days ago
How handmade glasses are made. Some of the processes used at Oliver Goldsmith, a glasses manufacturer in West London.
Oliver Goldsmith - Handmade since 1926
Source: vimeo.com
Posted 4 days ago
As I bent down to look, just opposite
A shape within the wat’ry gleam appear’d,
Bending to look on me. I started back,
It started back; but pleas’d I soon return’d
Pleas’d it return’d as soon with answering looks
Of sympathy and love. There I had fix’d
Mine eyes till now, and pin’d with vain desire,
This section of Paradise Lost, Book 4 by John Milton describes Eve being ominously captivated by her own reflection. It is a wonderful picture of how sin turns the life giving love of God in on itself. Instead of loving God and others, as we were created to, we begin to love only ourselves.
Proper love is seen most perfectly in the trinity, which we’ll be focusing on this Sunday at St. C’s.
Source: poetryfoundation.org
Posted 4 days ago
How Deep The Father’s Love - By Page CXVI - Official Music Video (by pagecxvi)
Source: youtube.com
Posted 6 days ago
via wilwheaton
Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel, The Shining. This well-worn book, normally housed in the Stanley Kubrick Archive in London but currently on tour in a traveling exhibition, is filled with Kubrick’s notes and comments. Many passages are highlighted, and Kubrick has filled the margins with hand-written notes that run the gamut from notating passages that inspired him, to crossing out sections he found silly.
(click images to enlarge)
Source: the-overlook-hotel
Posted 1 week ago
via pitchfork
The robots asked the Munich Machine to go into a vocal booth and speak about his life. In the studio were multiple microphones of various vintages from the 60s to today. When Moroder asked the engineer why they had so many mics, he replied that the mic they would use would depend on what decade of his life he was speaking about. When Moroder asked if anyone would know the difference, the engineer replied ‘They will know.’
Source: urb.com
Posted 1 week ago
The last time I saw paintings as deluded as Damien Hirst’s latest works, the artist’s name was Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
Posted 1 week ago
via thetinhouse
Posted 1 week ago
via pitchfork
Beck’s forthcoming one-off single on Third Man Records— fronted by the awesomely titled “I Just Started Hating Some People Today” and featuring production and instrumentation from Jack White— is out May 28.
Source: pitchfork
Posted 3 weeks ago
No me neither but these from the Sterogum blog do look pretty good.
(Click the cover for track listing and downloads (all legal)
Drive XV - A tribute to REM’s Automatic For The People
OKX - A tribute to Radiohead’s OK Computer