War of the Worlds

Many of you may know that I have been working on a War of the Worlds project for my Acvanced Audio Production Class. Well that day is today. It will be live, but unfortunately nobody can listen to it unless they are on campus. So unless you want to drive all the way out here tonight at 9 you'll have to wait untill I can get a copy to put on the internet.

Untill then though, you can all listen to the original 1938 broadcast by simply clicking here.

**Update...the link above isn't working right now because Cedarville is blocking me from publishing an audio file (probably out of fear that I am distributing illegal music or something)...I'll try to get it back up soon...

** Update again...the link above works now. Apparently the Cedarville server didn't recognise the .m4a file type and just blocked it or something. Anyway, you can listen to it now...so do it!

What in the Pete Sampras is going on here?

So this is going to be one of those posts that girls don't like I guess. There's some kind of unwritten law that girls aren't allowed to be interested in technology or something but I'll try to put something in here for the ladies...

Sony DSC-R1
A pretty nice little camera for the $1,000 price range. 10.3MP, 5x optical zoom, 2 inch LCD screen, and interchangeable lenses. And most of all, it's a Sony product so you know it has good battery life and easy functionality. With the better lenses and a super awesome image seonsor this produces incredibly sharp and accurate pictures. I guess I just like Sony products...


Gigapxl Project
Graham Flint is an amazing man. He has invented the first landscape camera to take pictures at about 4 gigapixels around the country to end up capturing about 1000 pictures all around the nation. Now it is all analog technology, so the gigapixel measurement is just an approximation but this is just an amazing camera, He can take a picture of San Diego from a couple kilometers away and you can zoom in and see into people's windows. That's probably not a very good use of the technology, but it is just an example of its capabilities. Check out the whole story at http://www.gigapxl.org/.


Watch TV Anywhere (anywhere with internet)

Orb.com is a site that allows you to stream live video over their server from home so you can watch it from anywhere you have an internet connection on laptops and some palm pilots. Aaron and I tried this and got it to work...kind of. We didn't have one of the "approved" TV cards but I still think we could have got it. Aaron now has his internal WinTV card back so we may try it with more success again later. It's worth a shot...

For the Ladies
Can't find the right man for you? Well eHarmony is the place for you. They make you take a quiz with all these questions and then they use special algorithms and calculations to match you with your future husband. You can find me at http://www.eharmony.com/users/hottboys/prozac.

OLED
OLED stands for Organic Light-Emitting Diode. Basically, it's just a substitute for LCD screens...a really kick-butt substitute. Basically it uses about half the power, it's brighter and has better contrast, and even a better viewing angle. Along with being smaller and hopefully eventually cheaper it is just all around better. You can see this sweet tech in other products such as the MobiBLU Cube, Creative Zen Micro Photo, and Pioneer DEH-P8600MP Car Stereo.

Fall Break

So I am on fall break right now. "What is fall break for?", you may ask. Well I have no idea, but I do know that I love it. I slept in until 2pm yesterday and 1pm today....and I FEEL GREAT! I have been quite lax in updating, and for that I apologise because I know how many people depend on my blog for daly entertainment.

Anyway, I plan to continue to have a weekend of fun and relaxing. I've been watching some movies, plaing some Halo 2, and reading my latest issue of Popular Science (which is about spaceships...again...). I'll have some interesting technology for you all to see soon...it's pretty cool stuff. Until then....toodleoo.

Yeah....one of those...

I am the laziest man in the world because I woke up late for my 12:30 class...Michael Jackson once wrote and made a movie about himself..."wind can't catch anything, it doesn't have hands" (oh yeah Phil....tell that to this guy!)...I normally wouldn't tolerate Celtic music but these guys are awesome...Hillary's soccer game was good but I'm pretty sure that one guy she was guarding was at least 25...what the heck Jennifer, what the heck!?...famous people I've "met" in the last week: Steven Curtis Chapman asked for my pizza and has weak bones, I touched Senator Mike Dewine's butt while pinning him with his microphone, and I sat next to/talked to/touched the coat of Kirk Cameron...I love cotton candy and funnel cakes...

Evil Cats

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Originally uploaded by bastet.flickr.

I absolutely hate cats! I cannot stand them. Kittens...sometimes...but full blown cats, out of the question.

I compare them to the art in the fast food restaurants. It's there and you see it but nobody really enjoys it, nobody gets anything out of it, it's just there only for the purpose of having something there. Nobody really enjoys cats, they just have them so they have something. That's the way I see it so I say we should all punch kittens in the throat so we can kill them all!

Michael Curtis Chapsmith

Here's what happened during my 16 hour work shift today during Cedarville's homecoming and Steven Curtis Chapman concert:

-Steven Curtis Chapman wanted my half-eaten pizza

-Both my arms and 3 of my fingers fell off from the combo of heavy lifting the last couple days and racquetball

-The sound man told me his ghost stories. They were try and pretty freaky.

-Things get heavier the more you lift them.

-SCC does not sing the "Friends Forever" song.

-This was only the second concert in my life that I've fallen asleep at (Acquire the Fire is the other)

-I got $2 in tips

-You cannot fill a 25lb CO2 tank on a saturday...especially at a paintball place...jerks...it was for the Lord

-I ate Amanda's sol...seriously.

-The Power Team is awesome.

-Volunteers are amazingly hard working people for some strange reason.

-SCC drinks calcium water...which means he has weak bones.

-Calcium water is nasty.

-I need sleep NOW!

Owned

I have to admit that I thought I was pretty decent at racquetball. Well, last night I met reality.

It's not that I actually thought nobody in the world was better than me, I just wasn't expecting it from someone in a "casual" racquetball club. This guy killed me like 15-3 every time (and we played like 6 times). It was really fun actually and I think I even played pretty good, but I am definately humbled greatly. So I need to practice a lot if anyone wants to come down for a game here or there...I'm really sore today though.

Passive Christianity

Some of you may remember back in August Josh posted God vs. Science Parts 1 and 2 and this is my post sating that I totally (and respectfully) disagree with him.

In 1992 a group of Christmas carolers were held behind a barricade while singing Silent Night because the town of Vienna, Virginia had outlawed the singing of religious songs on public property. At a High School commencement in the same year a rabbi gave a simple prayer during his commencement speech and was sewed because a 15 year old girl disagreed with his faith. So not only can you not talk about God in schools, but you can also not express any part of your Christian faith in front of other people as they might not be a Christian.

This is a problem in my opinion, and although Josh thinks we spend too much time as Christians worrying about politics, I would say we are spending not nearly enough. If you haven't noticed, our rights, Christian's rights, are quickly being taken away. If an atheist went down the street singing about there being no god, nobody would even think to stop him...even with that law in effect. If a Muslim was giving that speech and offered a prayer to Allah, nobody would have said a peep.

If we do not stand up for our rights, our faith, we will not be allowed to have either except in our homes. It is ridiculous to propose that you cannot even speak of God in school. It is ridiculous to say that you cannot teach creationism along with the other theories of our origins (especially since even teaching evolution is the blatant support of atheism which is itself a religion!). I agree that many Christians take it too far, and some end up looking like stupid fanatics, but if we don't do anything our voices will never be heard again. If you recall Jesus was very much against the government of the day which was run by pharasees and such. He outright told them they were wrong and was arrested for not obeying their laws against him. If you still think Jesus wasn't into politics, think again pal! And if you still think Christians shouldn't bother so much with politics, then I'd say don't count on being able to pray outside anymore.