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Jen’s Wedding Part 3: The Ceremony
And so the ceremony began, starting with the couples approaching the aisle. I was able to get some great shots because I was using both my Rebel XT and Rebel XTi with the EF 28-105mm (and the lens hood to help mitigate lens flare) on one camera and the Tamron 55-200mm on the other. This…
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First Look Review: Braid
That a game like Braid can exist is a statement on where video games are as an art form with a well-established history and canon. To make a parallel in the paint world: without a long canon of traditional paintings of tables with fruit and bread, people wouldn’t have really understood the “parody” or “remix”…
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Battle of the 50mm Primes
I have as of a few months now, I have two 50mm prime lenses – the Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro and the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. I wanted to compare them to see if one is clearly better for another. After all, if I’m going to use a prime lens, why not…
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Is it Obsolete? NPR Radio Stations
I am a huge listener of public radio programming, but I no longer listen to my local NPR station. Most of the time I just listen to podcasts of the shows that would otherwise be broadcast on NPR. The basic force behind this is the same as the reason why I loved my MythTV when…
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Review: Slackware 12.2
I already tried installing Gentoo. Twice. The other Linux distro for the hardcore, for whom the Ubuntus and the Fedoras is too easy, is Slackware. Slackware is, of course, the oldest surviving Linux distro. I’ve already reviewed some distros based off of Slackware such as Zenwalk and Slax. Along the way I’ve come to learn…
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Is it Obsolete? Evangelism
Welcome to my new series where I wonder if some concepts and technologies are now obsolete thanks to our new paradigms and technologies. Today’s topic – evangelism. Short term readers of my blog will think I only write about Linux and technology. Long term readers will know that I’m a Christian. I was brought up …
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Vimeo Introduces Channels
One long standing request on the Vimeo forums was for Vimeo to adopt some features from flickr; namely sets and groups. Well, Vimeo decided to mix it up and create a hybrid all their own. Dubbed Channels, they are an interesting mechanism. A user creates a channel and then the user can add his own…
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So he *does* admit it!
(I’m writing this on the 21 around midnight, but I have a lot of posts coming up so I time-shifted this to the 24th) If you’ve read my blog long enough, you know that I believe in events transpiring when they should. In other words, God places things in our lives at the right time.…
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The Evolution vs Creationism BullSh*t needs to stop
Recently, someone created Conservipedia, saying that Wikipedia has a liberal bias. Its proof? Idiotic things like the fact that some of the articles are spelled in the Queen’s English (honour, colour) despite most users being American. This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. Another proof it gives is not idiotic, just misguided –…
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Clean Conscious
A parody I made a few years ago for church along with Kyle, Mauricio, Jared, Julia, and Gene. Clean Conscious on Vimeo
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Impact Ad
An old ad I made in 2000 when I was the lead on the church’s video team. Impact Ad (Short Version) on Vimeo
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Gay Pastor Confesses?
It was just an audio footnote on NPR’s story, but he has confessed to his church that some of the allegations are true. This story should remind people why religion and politics shouldn’t be mixed. This guy wanted to be all big, calling into the White House and stuff and he wanted to support and…
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The Pope is Wrong
I can just see it in some extremist planning area: Extremist 1: Hey, the Pope said we were a violent people! Extremist 2: What a jerk! What should we do in protest? Extremist 1: Let’s bomb churches and kill a nun! Extremist 2: Excellent, that will clearly prove him wrong! See the irony? Why don’t…
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Stop disrespecting soldiers!
I saw something today that disgusted me. It’s relatively old news, but it’s the first time I’d actually seen the story on tv. It seems there are some Christians who have made it a point to undermine Christianity at all costs. What makes it even worse is that these guys are a bunch of Baptists,…
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Shi’ites and Sunni & Protestants and Catholics
For a while I kept wondering what the heck was going on in Iraq. Why were the Shi’ites and Sunni killing each other? Aren’t they both Muslim? What barbaric behaviour to kill your own compatriots, not because they are a different religion, but just a different sect! But then, one night as I lay awake…