Google Chrome and broccoli
A million people across the world are probably writing about Google Chrome right now, so I decided not to.
While out for a walk tonight I resolved to write about the first thing which came into my head, and quite randomly that happened to be broccoli.
This reminded me of a Year 11 Biblical Studies class at Lourdes College in 1983 when the teacher called us individually into a room and asked us to say the first word which came into our head when he said “Jesus”.
Most of us automatically said “God”. A troubled child might have said “Judas” or “crucifixion”.
There was one nervous boy left to enter the booth and he asked us anxiously what was going on.
The teacher had said not to tell anyone the question, but he hadn’t said we couldn’t give the answer, so I told the boy to say “fish”, thinking that was about the most stupid thing he could utter.
At that time, unless it was subconscious, I had no idea about the Christian significance of the Greek fish symbol.
The teacher reported that most of us predictably had linked Jesus with God, except for a couple of troubled children and one brilliant boy.
We then heard a 10-minute lecture about the religious significance of fish, none of which I now remember; a bit like everything I didn’t learn in computer science that year when we didn’t have any computers.
Back to broccoli. I’m pretty neutral about this vegetable. I don’t mind it, but along with cauliflower it’s more edible with cheese sauce and I tend to mix it with potato before trying to swallow.
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Very interesting blog entry today! hahahaha
September 6th, 2008 at 1:22 am
I remember learning the meaning of the Greek fish symbol in Greek school. I think it had to do with the the first christians. I think every letter of the greek word for fish stands for something. It goes something like this: Jesus Christ something something…lol sorry i dont really remember my Greek.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I downloaded Chrome about 10 minutes ago and am using it now. It seems pretty zippy.