Noah Video

Noah Video
We're doing a Noah story in our Sunday School program, so I put the superb and easy video tools on my new Mac to good use and made this video for them.

This problem is, only the first minute and a half of Cosby's Noah routines were ever recorded on TV (and hence, video), so I've spliced sound recordings from the rest together with photos so the kids could enjoy the whole thing with some well-timed visuals.

A small 17mb downloadable version of the movie can be found right here.

Where, o where have my old web pages gone?

Well, I'm back after a month away. Church camp, church choir trip, and family vacation aside--it's good to be back and back in a routine. Lots to talk about, especially enjoying this new 20" iMac Intel that our family has been enjoying and using six ways to Sunday. (Where does this phrase come from, anyway?). We look at family picture slideshows, dance to music videos, play endlessly with Photobooth, and am I ever getting some serious synoptic tables up on this screen.

One thing I discovered upon return from being away is that my old web pages at my student space at TCU (where I'm a PhD candidate) have disappeared. They changed the URL location, so now my 3 years of lectionary sermon archives, and other hobby pages such as the astronomy sketches dropped to a couple hits a day. The sidebar here included some links to the site, but I'm thinking now of taking it all down. Some things may make their way back into another form. I'm considering putting the old "This Weaks' Hermeneutic" pages into a new blogspace.

I have very little time for such work. So, for now, I'm taking it all down (don't want it archiving in Google in a new space I don't plan on using).

List of Dead Sea Scrolls pieces coming to KC

And now Jim has posted and article detailed the anticipated success of the exhibit and the list of which scroll pieces will be making an appearance.

The iMac is in the Mail

Well, it has been 6 years since my last new Mac. That changes now, as my new iMac 20" Intel Core Duo arrives tomorrow. I needed a faster computer and wider screen to work with the parallel gospel texts I've been working with. I have been feeling guilty spending so much money when the world has so much need. To purge my guilt, I raised my Capital Campaign pledge to our church. It worked. :)

Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit Date Set for Kansas City

The Kansas City Star has an article reporting the official announcement that our Union Station will host a travelling Qumran scrolls exhibit, Feb. 8 to May 13. I still plan on taking a group from our church, but whew, $20? (I better get the tour guide rate.) The collection is described as:

In addition to pieces of six original scrolls, there will be replicas of four others, and more than 100 scroll-related artifacts such as pottery and coins.

It won't be as exciting as spending the day that Shrine of the Book scrolls exhibit in Jerusalem, or when I spent a day climbing in and out of caves in Qumran (It was Friday afternoon and not a soul around all day.), but it should be worth the trip and even the cash.

Kudos to KC. Update: See my review here.