So I've got a few more detail in the lifepoint worship blog, but before I begin... does anyone recognize the title of this post? (Family not allowed to compete!) The first person who can tell me where it's from will get... bragging rights to all their friends about how much a geek you are.
So we did a "country" by which I mean "Bluegrass" song this week. If you've seen the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" then you'd probably remember Man of constant sorrows.
Despite the fact that I wasn't able to put together a full bluegrass band, our worship team rocked the song. And I got to play washboard, (a first for me)... and why is it every time I've got some weird I-need-my-percussionist-for-some-special-odd-type-instrument-thing, she's on vacation!
I'm not kidding, I'm planning to make sure to schedule our next acoustic worship set for after she get's back.
Anyway I've got more details about this last week's worship set including the performance song on the Lifepoint worship blog.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Did you miss me?
I'm back from my trip, had an amazing time, missed Lifepoint on Sunday though... heard it was amazing.
Forgot to mention... actually come to think of it, this is the first time I've put a post up from my laptop since I got rid of vista... that's right David Gregory gave me a hand (More like he did most of the work while I sat and watched) but we rid my very nice machine from d4 3v1l that is vista and replaced it with XP. Yes I know a lot of you will be saying how I should get a mac instead of a pc, but for the price?
Normally I'm geeky enough to do this kind of operation by myself, but on those same lines, normally I already all the hardware in the machine because I built it myself. Not wanting to take a chance on the new machine that I do nearly all my work on I went to the expert.
Now I've got my machine with quite a few extras, mind you it's very stable (unlike Vista) very fast (unlike Vista) almost no bloatware (unlike vista) and takes full advantage of the dual core 64 (well as close as you can get without TRUE 64... and only the geeks will understand that) (oh, and again unlike vista).
So here's some of the 3rd part apps that make my machine run the way I want it to.
Launchy For someone who does a lot of typing, or knows a ton of keyboard shortcuts (IE my hand's not always on my mouse) this is a great little program. It's a program launcher you bring up the menu (via keyboard shortcuts) and then type the name of what you want to launch, it seems to be intuitive after a while.
Dexpot I never used this program on my old machine, it's a virtual desktop program and while it's not perfect... (honestly though, what is?) it does work extremely well. I have mine set to 4, and often will have illustrator open in one window, itune in another, reference images in a third, and firefox in the fourth, transition smoothly, rarely (if ever) hangs, and it allows me to have have different settings on the different desktops, thus I have 4 different backgrounds to help me keep them straight.
xneat really helps me set up my windows environment the way I want it to be, allowing for things like window transparency, minimize and show items on the taskbar it's not flashy, but very functional.
dexpose reloaded now there are some mixed reviews on this but I personally haven't had any problems with it. See there's this program on the mac's call expose which is a really nifty task switcher, (way cooler looking than alt_tab, and way more efficient then the stupid 3d thingy they tried in vista) this is a windows version of said program.
About the only thing I don't have that one would expect (well from me) is a dock bar, and while I've used them in the past, I have found Launchy to be mush more efficient, at least for me.
and... oh bugger, right, expect me to post something tomorrow.
Forgot to mention... actually come to think of it, this is the first time I've put a post up from my laptop since I got rid of vista... that's right David Gregory gave me a hand (More like he did most of the work while I sat and watched) but we rid my very nice machine from d4 3v1l that is vista and replaced it with XP. Yes I know a lot of you will be saying how I should get a mac instead of a pc, but for the price?
Normally I'm geeky enough to do this kind of operation by myself, but on those same lines, normally I already all the hardware in the machine because I built it myself. Not wanting to take a chance on the new machine that I do nearly all my work on I went to the expert.
Now I've got my machine with quite a few extras, mind you it's very stable (unlike Vista) very fast (unlike Vista) almost no bloatware (unlike vista) and takes full advantage of the dual core 64 (well as close as you can get without TRUE 64... and only the geeks will understand that) (oh, and again unlike vista).
So here's some of the 3rd part apps that make my machine run the way I want it to.
Launchy For someone who does a lot of typing, or knows a ton of keyboard shortcuts (IE my hand's not always on my mouse) this is a great little program. It's a program launcher you bring up the menu (via keyboard shortcuts) and then type the name of what you want to launch, it seems to be intuitive after a while.
Dexpot I never used this program on my old machine, it's a virtual desktop program and while it's not perfect... (honestly though, what is?) it does work extremely well. I have mine set to 4, and often will have illustrator open in one window, itune in another, reference images in a third, and firefox in the fourth, transition smoothly, rarely (if ever) hangs, and it allows me to have have different settings on the different desktops, thus I have 4 different backgrounds to help me keep them straight.
xneat really helps me set up my windows environment the way I want it to be, allowing for things like window transparency, minimize and show items on the taskbar it's not flashy, but very functional.
dexpose reloaded now there are some mixed reviews on this but I personally haven't had any problems with it. See there's this program on the mac's call expose which is a really nifty task switcher, (way cooler looking than alt_tab, and way more efficient then the stupid 3d thingy they tried in vista) this is a windows version of said program.
About the only thing I don't have that one would expect (well from me) is a dock bar, and while I've used them in the past, I have found Launchy to be mush more efficient, at least for me.
and... oh bugger, right, expect me to post something tomorrow.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Quick ReCaps...
Okay, Like Pick, I'm loving twitter... even when I don't have time to write a long post... or access to a computer (when I'm on the road... errr not literally!) I can send a tweet to my twitter account via a text message. Like last night I found myself at a Borders in Gaithersburg (sp?) Md. I found the OLD style of the plug by Koss, repackaged so it must be a new release.
To date I have not found a better set of headphones/in ears for the price. And it's cheaper now than it was 3 years ago when I last saw them.
The good: Great bass response, good high range, decent mid range. 15 bucks!!!! VERY comfortable (memory foam, instead of those little plastic thingies) in the ear portion.
The Bad: Let's face it these are consumer grade headphones, and they're only 15 bucks, you get what you pay for, or in other words, they're much less sturdy than say my old shure e2c's or my current Westone UM2s, so handle with care! Darn near impossible to find!
Overall: With sound quality that I feel rivals shure's entry level e2's or most other base level in-ears, I can't recommend this set of in ears fast or loud enough. Especially for 15 bucks, they might not replace my UM2's anytime soon (or the livewires as soon as I get some), but for the price I'm far more comfortable traveling with them or loaning them out. If you can find them I say grab a set, if you don't like them bring them to me and I'll buy them for you, but make sure you grab the right ones... (pics to follow eventually)
Oh, and if you're wondering what this last post was all about, all I'm gonna say is that it involved this, a fancy name brand of water, and a humorous fake note that may have contained a forged signature.
Oh and I just finished posting both last weeks and this past weeks worship notes on the (shameless plug)Lifepoint Worship Blog (/shameless plug)
To date I have not found a better set of headphones/in ears for the price. And it's cheaper now than it was 3 years ago when I last saw them.
The good: Great bass response, good high range, decent mid range. 15 bucks!!!! VERY comfortable (memory foam, instead of those little plastic thingies) in the ear portion.
The Bad: Let's face it these are consumer grade headphones, and they're only 15 bucks, you get what you pay for, or in other words, they're much less sturdy than say my old shure e2c's or my current Westone UM2s, so handle with care! Darn near impossible to find!
Overall: With sound quality that I feel rivals shure's entry level e2's or most other base level in-ears, I can't recommend this set of in ears fast or loud enough. Especially for 15 bucks, they might not replace my UM2's anytime soon (or the livewires as soon as I get some), but for the price I'm far more comfortable traveling with them or loaning them out. If you can find them I say grab a set, if you don't like them bring them to me and I'll buy them for you, but make sure you grab the right ones... (pics to follow eventually)
Oh, and if you're wondering what this last post was all about, all I'm gonna say is that it involved this, a fancy name brand of water, and a humorous fake note that may have contained a forged signature.
Oh and I just finished posting both last weeks and this past weeks worship notes on the (shameless plug)Lifepoint Worship Blog (/shameless plug)
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Twitch
Ever have this happen? You get a brain flash, you didn't keep that handy pad that goes with you ALMOST everywhere you go and you scramble to get it, you reach the pad and just when your pen or pencil touches the paper you forgot what you wanted to write down?
Well this is one of those posts. I had four or five things I wanted to mention and I can't come up with anything... wait I remember one thing I wanted to cover.
Rules of the Road, fudi version. (To be updated as I see needed): If you've got a red light and you're on a right hand turn lane it is okay to turn if no traffic is approaching, (and if there is No sign that indicates no turn on red).
HOWEVER, if traffic is approaching and you decide to go anyway it is NOT acceptable to pull out in front of an Alero traveling at 45.5 mph in a 45 zone. Furthermore it is even less acceptable to slowly accelerate somewhere in the neighborhood of 4mph a minute until top speed is reached. If that top speed is 10-15 miles UNDER the speed limit for the next 5 miles you should turn in the keys to your car/truck and go and buy a Vespa.
Right then.
Hopefully whatever interesting insight that I had wanted to share will come back to me soon.
Well this is one of those posts. I had four or five things I wanted to mention and I can't come up with anything... wait I remember one thing I wanted to cover.
Rules of the Road, fudi version. (To be updated as I see needed): If you've got a red light and you're on a right hand turn lane it is okay to turn if no traffic is approaching, (and if there is No sign that indicates no turn on red).
HOWEVER, if traffic is approaching and you decide to go anyway it is NOT acceptable to pull out in front of an Alero traveling at 45.5 mph in a 45 zone. Furthermore it is even less acceptable to slowly accelerate somewhere in the neighborhood of 4mph a minute until top speed is reached. If that top speed is 10-15 miles UNDER the speed limit for the next 5 miles you should turn in the keys to your car/truck and go and buy a Vespa.
Right then.
Hopefully whatever interesting insight that I had wanted to share will come back to me soon.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
umm wow?
Okay, the inner drummer in me drools at pulling something like THIS off at Lifepoint. This was apparently the opener at Willow Creek's Arts conference.
Also found this one that I had to share, (the last one has no streaming media, it's a couple of pictures on that post, but don't look at it while sipping coffee, you've been warned!)
Also found this one that I had to share, (the last one has no streaming media, it's a couple of pictures on that post, but don't look at it while sipping coffee, you've been warned!)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Relax!
Okay so I admit it's been a bit stressful last week, I had a lot going on at work, I had quite a bit going on at Lifepoint, and now I'm a bit behind on my blogging, but I found this little article on stress management and it was so helpful for me that I wanted to share it with you.
"Whenever you are having a rough day, try this stress management technique recommended in all the latest psychological journals. The funny thing is that it really does work and will make you smile.
1. Picture yourself lying on your belly on a warm rock that hangs out over a crystal clear stream.
2. You can feel both your hands dangling in the cool running water.
3. Birds are sweetly singing in the cool mountain air.
4. No one knows your secret place.
5. You are in total seclusion from that hectic place called "The World".
6. The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.
7. The water is so crystal clear that you can easily make out the face of the person you are holding underwater.
See? It really does work. You're smiling Already!"
Monday, June 9, 2008
See it's good for you!
For those of you whom I have gotten on the case about blogging, (ie, yo, you should blog, you would be good at it) all I have to say is here's more proof that YOU yes, YOU should be blogging.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Graphic fun
ok I'm not Josh by any Stretch of the imagination but I've enjoyed Working with graphics for years. Well I finally got around to installing my old Intous 2 Tablet and in point of fact this entire Post was written with the character image recognition software that comes with the tablet . And when you think about how bad my handwriting is that is very, very impressive.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
I am SO blogging this!
Last week Tuesday we had a meeting for the some of the volunteer leaders (ie unpaid staff) of lifepoint. Pastor talked about this topic, which we got from drive, the material is excellent so I can understand why he wanted to share it with the rest of the team, most of the high points can be found here (my first and until later tonight my only notes from drive that I have posted)
The quotable line from the night with pastor (and I'm not saying WHO said it) would have to be...
In other blogging news I really have gotten to like the wordpress interface... at some point (and I WILL let you know) I'm going to move my official blogging presence there... but I'll still update this page, (copy and paste, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to blog, because if it did then I wouldn't be doing it, now would I?) but there may be a time lapse between that updating and me getting around to updating here, I AM going to leave lifepoint worship on Blogger for now, although in all candidness I don't know how many people even know about that blog who would have any issues in... oh forget it that's random drivel for some other time, (And I typed 2/3 of this paragraph with my eyes closed... sad isn't it?)
The quotable line from the night with pastor (and I'm not saying WHO said it) would have to be...
"I'm not saying figure it out, I'm just saying... figure it out"
In other blogging news I really have gotten to like the wordpress interface... at some point (and I WILL let you know) I'm going to move my official blogging presence there... but I'll still update this page, (copy and paste, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to blog, because if it did then I wouldn't be doing it, now would I?) but there may be a time lapse between that updating and me getting around to updating here, I AM going to leave lifepoint worship on Blogger for now, although in all candidness I don't know how many people even know about that blog who would have any issues in... oh forget it that's random drivel for some other time, (And I typed 2/3 of this paragraph with my eyes closed... sad isn't it?)
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Did I mention?
I also contribute to the Lifepoint Worship Blog... okay I actually run the Lifepoint worship blog, mainly as a way to communicate to my team/staff and also to other worship leaders/music directors/etc...
If anyone on the Lifepoint Worship would like to contribute to that blog please let me know. I'd love to hear about worship from your perspectives, for now here's this past week's set list.
If anyone on the Lifepoint Worship would like to contribute to that blog please let me know. I'd love to hear about worship from your perspectives, for now here's this past week's set list.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Good Morning Mr. Phelps...
I disavow any knowledge of the actions of any individuals concerning this.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Wow
Today was amazing.
Despite several technical difficulties, it was still amazing. I'll be posting notes on worship on the Lifepoint Worship Blog in a little bit, but what a great Sunday, my personal highlights:
Awoke early for the LAST setup at Parkside!
Rehersal (despite some issues with video/loop volume went really smooth.
Played until my arms were numb and I was ready to collapse,
ROCKED OUT for the last week at Parkside, next week we move to CHS.
My Amazing worship team stayed late to help pack up, (Thanks, Ronnie, Anne, Elizabeth, Bill, Jeremy and everyone else).
Had a chance to chat (for a couple minutes anyway) to the new Mrs. Heather Jordan,
Had a great laugh with some friends.
Now chilling to "Hollywood Nocturne" by Brian Setzer Orchestra. (actually listening to the entire album)
Working on catching up on writing a bunch of blog posts.
Despite several technical difficulties, it was still amazing. I'll be posting notes on worship on the Lifepoint Worship Blog in a little bit, but what a great Sunday, my personal highlights:
Awoke early for the LAST setup at Parkside!
Rehersal (despite some issues with video/loop volume went really smooth.
Played until my arms were numb and I was ready to collapse,
ROCKED OUT for the last week at Parkside, next week we move to CHS.
My Amazing worship team stayed late to help pack up, (Thanks, Ronnie, Anne, Elizabeth, Bill, Jeremy and everyone else).
Had a chance to chat (for a couple minutes anyway) to the new Mrs. Heather Jordan,
Had a great laugh with some friends.
Now chilling to "Hollywood Nocturne" by Brian Setzer Orchestra. (actually listening to the entire album)
Working on catching up on writing a bunch of blog posts.
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