church planting, crossroad baptist, holidays, media, music, stephen

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Our church’s Christmas cantata this morning was entitled “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” Stephen had the privilege of writing the narration, which was read by a couple in our church. The narration went line by line through the familiar carol explaining the doctrine within its text. From there, Stephen wove in scripture verses that were… Read More Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

family, media

Moving Day

What a whirlwind! After we signed the lease for Charis’ apartment, we went to the City Building to have the water transferred to her name, and we called the gas and electric company to do the same. Then we headed back to Anderson so we could pack up her belongings Tuesday night. Again, the Lord… Read More Moving Day

media, web stuff

3D morphable faces

This is really cool. Some German scientists have created a 3D face modeling program that allows them to map any face to a digital model and then manipulate facial expressions and other details. There’s a good bit of technical jargon at the beginning, but later they illustrate by manipulating some actual famous faces.

media, web stuff

Fun for Friday

“Here’s”:http://www.pepsi.co.jp/special/game.html a mildly entertaining flash game from Pepsi Japan that’ll take up a Friday afternoon. It’s actually quite a bit harder than it looks (I did beat it though–see the attached screenshot for confirmation 🙂 ).

media, web stuff

Zarqawi video

Here’s the Zarqawi ‘outakes’ video: As you can see, certain folks wasted no time posting the video to YouTube, parodying it, and generally making a fool of Zarqawi. The original file can be found & downloaded “here”:http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom1/Video/DOD_N06050411.wmv. Thanks to CENTCOM for making it available.

current events, media, politics

Indiana on the Move

I’m a little late to find out, but there’s some good economic news coming from “my home state”:http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/swanson200603280801.asp for once. Based on what I’ve seen and read, Governor Mitch Daniels has far exceeded my expectations so far. I didn’t follow the 2004 Indiana governor’s race very closely since I’m not living in the state at… Read More Indiana on the Move