Today
Well, today I’m supposed to be working on a DVD to display at the upcoming East Japan conference we’re all attending. Problem is, it takes ages to download footage (which occupied the morning) and now my computer (one of the fastest laptops on the market today for this kind of stuff) is going to take a couple of hours to “letterbox” it all so it’s the right proportions.
So anyway. Um. Stephen Hawking is writing a kids’ book, I am now struggling with not playing my new Tetris clone all the time, and you should all read Ephesians 2:1-10 and tell me what to say in my sermon on it in three weeks time. (I think it’s three weeks. Far too close whenever it is.)
Having a built-in webcam is reasonably disconcerting sometimes. iMovie has this weird design flaw that means while it’s letterboxing it turns on the iSight webcam above my screen, so that whenever I switch to iMovie I see my face.
In other news, I have finished teaching myself hiragana, the first Japanese syllabary, so I can now read Japanese books written for five-year-olds (though I only understand one word in fifty). Next on the agenda: katakana, so I can graduate to books for seven-year-olds; and then kanji (of which there are three thousand in common use).
Currently letterboxing clip 44 of… oh, wait, iMovie doesn’t tell you. (Sort it out, Apple!) I think it’s about two hundred clips in total – three hours of footage.
Matthew @ 05:24, June 15, 2006 to Miscellaneous | Comments (6)
Comments:
Mr E
That Quinn game is pretty good. Now I have an alternative distraction as well as my Minesweeper widget.
Comment added at 12:46, June 15, 2006
Rory
Suggestions for your sermon: Talk about Grace. Talk about Faith. Talk about the purpose of God’s creating us. Talk about death in the material and transient, and life in Christ. (Actually, this concept reminds me of a Hidden Word by Baha’u’llah, “O SON OF MAN! If thou lovest Me, turn away from thyself; and if thou seekest My pleasure, regard not thine own; that thou mayest die in Me and I may eternally live in thee.”) Talk about what you think the symbolism means, and give several interpretative suggestions. Talk about Works.
I hope that helps.
Comment added at 11:22, June 16, 2006
Matthew
Well, seeing as you’ve pretty much picked the key words from the passage and told me to talk about them… :p
There no translations of Baha’u’llah in modern day English, then?
Comment added at 11:56, June 16, 2006
Mark
There are hidden words?
Comment added at 12:51, June 16, 2006
Rory
Matt: Erm, yeah, but I was rather meaning the religious concepts behind those words.
Mark: Erm, kinda. That’s just the name of the book. They are insights and wisdom, wrapped in “the garment of brevity”.
Comment added at 22:45, June 17, 2006
Matthew
I think you mean “doctrines”. Religion implies the opposite of what grace is. But we’re just getting picky now.
Comment added at 01:14, June 18, 2006
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