Friday afternoon I picked up a 32gb, 3G iPad from the bookstore at Missouri State. I was a bit shocked when my friend Landon told me they had them available. Total elapsed time from awareness of them to having one in my hands was under two hours. Earlier I'd commented about how the iPad wasn't really powerful enough to fill …
Q Chicago #qideas
I'm wrapping up the last bit of work at the church before heading to the airport for a trip to Chicago. I'll be attending the Q conference. I went last year in Austin and thought it was one of the best, most thought provoking opportunities to explore the role of the church. Q is the brainchild of Gabe Lyons (coauthor …
Computers Without Files
There are some blogs in my RSS reader that I don't look at all that often but enjoy reading when I get the chance. One of those is Eric Sink. Eric and I have never met, but he was an influential boss/coworker for one of my business partners. Eric's always provided great wisdom into the software industry and tech in …
Three Weeks
IMG_1710Originally uploaded by kerner It’s crazy to think that it’s been three weeks since Josiah was born. Also a bit crazy to think this is the first thing I’ve posted about him on the blog. After three weeks as a new dad some things are becoming routine. I’ve come to the realization that I can swaddle anything. Josiah’s growing quite …
Ultimate Charades Death Match
One of the great parts of my job is doing ministry with college students. Wednesday nights always feature some sort of crazy activity and tonight was no different. It's always a challenge to balance more sedate activities with more energetic options . We try to balance more active games with less active games over the stretch of a month. Tonight …
Mac Netbook Adventures #hackintosh
We've been needing a small laptop for use in the college ministry – a way to do data entry on campus and not be dependent on my laptop (which I use to preach) or having students bring their own computers. A netbook seemed like the perfect solution – small, long battery, etc. The only problem was that I really wanted …
Sacrifice
We've been talking a lot about sacrifice over the past couple of weeks here at Schweitzer as we explore what it is God would have us do to support the growth of the church in our current stewardship focus, Growing God's Church. I'm amazed by the level of sacrifice we're hearing from members of the church. Every weekend Bob has …
Schweitzer Community Outreach Center
This past weekend we gathered people together to do the first project in the newly named Schweitzer Community Outreach Center. The building just to the west of the church that used to house luxury cars is already being used to make an impact in the community. Over the course of a couple of hours we packaged 400 hygiene kits for …
Haiti Click Track Video
We made a spur of the moment decision to put together a video to tie in the devastation in Haiti with worship this weekend. You can watch the video from youtube below (SUMC folks saw it tonight at 5 and will see it tomorrow at 9:45 and 11, sorry 8:20 – you’ll get live musicians and no click). This is …
Compositing
John Nack made a post about this video and I thought I'd pass it on. I know that a lot of compositing goes into almost everything we see on TV or film, but it's really interesting to see both sides of the shot. Some of the shots are clearly put together, but others could just as easily have been shot …
Christmas Worship Projection Sample
Saturday night I took a little bit of footage with the Flip cam during worship. Here's a sample from a few songs. The audio quality is really bad, the microphone on the flip really picks up the drums above everything else. It's also a bit shaky from being handheld. Next time we do this we'll need to setup a real …
Christmas Music Celebration
This weekend we celebrated Christmas in music. There was an amazing diversity in worship as our traditional services featured the annual choir cantata with an orchestra and the modern services featured our praise band, the story of Christmas told through Isaiah in video, lighting and architectural projection. I'm incredibly impressed with how well all of the teams worked to accomplish …