We're still short a contemporary worship leader, but some of our prospects are outstanding and Zak/Angelia are doing a great job in the interim. If you know a talented worship leader that would be intersted in a part-time gig – 6-8 hours a week in Springfield, MO send him/her my way. The next several weeks we have candidates running practice …
Catch Up Ramblings: VBS
VBS was an exhausting, outstanding week. We had over 400 kids attending VBS during our large day program and smaller evening program. We generally always do a wrap-up, overview video for the Thursday night program. This year to provide something more interesting for the fifth graders we tossed them into the mix. They helped collect video footage for two days …
Catch Up Ramblings Intro
It's funny how three weeks can go past without any blogging, but not uncommon on this blog. A quick recap of the past few weeks. I've had several posts queued up but never finished. I'm going to do a quick edit and post them as-is.
airSIGNS – AIR Digital Signage
So I'm working on my first official AIR application. I'm hoping to get it done prior to the onAIR bus tour landing in St. Louis. We're going to be installing five, 42" LCD displays throughout the church in August and I didn't want to spend the money on a canned signage solution that only partially met our needs. The solution …
The BRICK
Triathlon training continues. I'm doing pretty well overall with Sunday being the only day in the past week that hasn't involved some level of fitness activity. Sarah's in much better shape than I am and is dragging me and Steve along. Matt's also in on the Tri training, but he probably rivals Sarah for fitness. Sarah and I started our …
Social Networking Overload
I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed and underwhelmed by all of the social networking widgets that are available these days. I'm currently on MySpace (though I can't remember when I last logged in to it), Facebook, Twitter, and Pownce. Not to mention the several others I've messed around with and don't remember. Add to that the blog and an IM client …
iPhone Day Day Two
I'm exceptionally happy with my iPhone. It's a great device. That said, there are some things that are lacking after a week of use. Overall the things that are good considerably outweigh the bad (they impact daily usage considerably) The Good: exceptional photos for a phone – when put to sleep with the camera app open from pocket to picture …
iPhone!
I went and got myself an iPhone last night. I got to the AT&T store around the corner from my house at about 4:30, chatted with some people I know who were in the front of the line. They'd been there over 24 hours. At about 4:45 some more people started to show up so I thought I'd get in …
Small Dots Messenger Bag
While I was out at Adobe I picked up a new messenger bag for the 17″ MacBookPro. I’ve been a fan of the Timbuk2 bags since I got my first one a few years ago. Even better than a stock bag though are the custom bags that are available at the Timbuk2 boutique in San Francisco. You can pick from …
7 iPhone Concerns
So all of the hype of the iPhone captured me from day one. I'd have given Apple $600 back in January just because of the reality distortion field. Today I'm in a bit of a quandary. The iPhone gets released at 6pm tonight and I'm not sure if I want to buy one or not. I loved my Newton …
FCP Studio 2: Color
I just completed the first video with substantial color correction and grading using Apple Color today. It was quite a nice process. In four quadrant image below you can see each of the clips from these interviews. In clips A and B you can see clips that had the exposure properly set prior to the shoot. I didn't adjust the …
Great Stoker Smoke
After a weekend with no bbq in KC I tossed a pork butt on the smoker with the Stoker on Sunday evening. It smoked at 215° for 20 hours – completing Monday afternoon then rested wrapped in foil in a cooler for a couple of hours. This is the first time I've had a butt that didn't require any chopping. …