How to make the best Halloween costume this year.
1.Get Flatscreen TVs.
2.Wrap them in fabric.
3. Add iPhone.
4. Enjoy costume!
Archive for Miscellaneous
Auto-Tune for iPhone
Disclaimer: iPhone post below.
So with the Itunes App Store passing 2 Billion downloads, I thought I’d show off one app that looks pretty neat. It is called “I am T-Pain“. This app uses Auto-tune to make your voice sound like a rapper. Yo. Apparently this auto-tune technique has been around some time, but until recently hadn’t been used alot. It wasn’t until the country song hating, video bashing, my dad is better than your dad, Kanye West started using it that people started to recognize the sound of Auto-Tune. Go figure. This app can make anyone sound like a star. Did you get to watch the Presidental address about healthcare that was on TV about a month or so ago? President Obama talked forever about universal healthcare and all that jazz. The video below is the skinny of the healthcare address, plus some Auto-Tune.
Word to tha Youth MiniStarz
Friend of mine sent this video to me…show it to every Youth Minister you know, it’s so true. Peace out. Word to yo’ motha’, dogg.
Flying with a guitar?
Are you soon going to be traveling by plane with your guitar? You may want to think again!
What will they think of next?
Remeber those days of taking notes in a classroom? You would hurridly jot down some notes as you’re trying to keep up with the proffesor that talked 90mph. After class, you’d go and look over those notes and wonder what you had written. If I had taken notes in school, this is what would’ve probably happened to me. My handwriting is terrible…but that’s another blog post.
Enter Livescribe Smart Pens. This product is absolutely phenomenal. I only wish that they had came out with this while I was taking Physics II. This pen records everything that you write and when you wrote it. You can tap the words that you’ve written and it plays back the audio that it recorded at the time that you wrote the words. Confused? Here’s a 7:00 minute demo video.
How flippin’ sweet is that? This thing would have saved me a lifetime of wondering what the chicken scratch on the page was. The actual prices from Livescribe are as follows: 1GB pen – $149.95, 2GB – $199.95. That’s a cheap way to understand what you were writing, and even translate the English words into Spanish for that terrible Spanish exam. For more info, head to www.livescribe.com
Here, Have some laughter.
Here is a pointless, yet hillarious video. The guy sings of Star Wars to the tunes of Famous Movies. Watch the time at the bottom of the video for the movie tune he is singing.
If you think this is flippin’ sweet (or stupid) and hillarious, check out more of their songs at www.moosebutter.com. If you live in Oklahoma, I suggest you check out their song “I Hate Mosquitos”, which is wickedly awesome.
P.S. – Nobody cares if you upset a Droid. ‘Cause Droid’s don’t tear your arms out of socket.
You. have. Got. to. be. Kidding. Me.
Just when you think the Presidental election has reached the ’weird’ status, Cabbage Patch Kid’s introduced the Presidental Candidate Dolls. Seriously.
Okay, Picture this:
You are 5. You want a doll….What is a President? Do most five year olds even know their own address? Phone Number? Nonetheless, who is running for President.
Anywho, if you want to help the Toys For Tots this Christmas, why not spend 10 grand on a Sarah Palin Cabbage Patch Doll? I’ve already been outbid. I’m bummed.
Maybe I’ll be able to pick up the Barack Obama, John McCain, or the Joe Biden dolls. Hopefully they will make a ‘Joe the Plumber’ doll. Now that sucker would sell for some serious bank.
Licensed.
As of October 25, I have received my ’License to Preach’ with the Assemblies of God. What does this do for me, you ask? Well, there are some privileges it comes with. Below, are a few of the more exciting benefits.
- Wanna get married of renew your vows?
- Want me to preach your funeral (please, no)?
- Want me to Pastor your church?
- Need a Worship Pastor/Children’s Pastor/Youth Pastor/Everything else Pastor?
All of these things, (and many, many, more) I am now Licensed to do as an Assembly of God Minister. It’s just another step in my journey to get to where God wants me to be. I do realize that if God has called and appointed you, that this is merely a nice looking piece of paper with your name on it. The Assemblies of God makes it clear that they do not call you, but they help to equip you. I must say that I have learned quite a bit about the legalities of the church while taking the courses to reach my ‘License to Preach’ level. I now know why some things are done the way they are done in our churches.
Please continue praying for me as I strive towards the highest level of achievement with the Assemblies of God, starting in January. This last tier of learning is called the ‘Ordination’ Level. Hopefully this time next year, I will have completed everything to obtain my Ordination with the Assemblies of God. However, there is a 2 year wait until I can actually complete the Ordination level. Here are some of the Benefits of Ordination as defined by the Assemblies of God. Learn more about the Berean Bible School here!
I know that God is preparing Amy and I for great things!
Transposr.com
The kind guys and gals at Planning Center Online have done it again. First, they created the ultimate time-saving site to help you plan your Worship Service. Now, they have expanded their boundaries and added another dimension to Worship Planning… www.Transposr.com.
Ever hear a song and went to practice it and found that it was in a weird key like C#? Transposr.com is the answer to your problems! Simply go to the website and upload the MP3 file. Tell transposr what key the MP3 file is in, then the key that you want it in. Then transposr takes over. In about 2 minutes or so, it produces the song in the key that you specified. Purely Sweet!
At transposr.com you can also transpose a text-based chord sheet to any key also. It works just like the MP3 section, upload, specify keys, and hit change. Viola, a brand new chord sheet that is customized to your key.
If you find that www.transposr.com is the tool you’ve been looking for in Worship and haven’t yet been to www.planningcenteronline.com, you definitely have to check it out also. For my Review on Planning Center, you can go here to read about it.
Countdown to Iphone (for me)
If you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m addicted to technology. Techno-junkie I think is the right term, or something like that. Anywho, I’ve been counting down the days when my cellphone contract is up for renewal so that I can buy myself one of them there Iphones without giving my left arm, right leg, kidney and DNA sample for it (Without a contract renewal the Iphone will run you about 500 bones!). October 7th is D-Day. Unless something dramatic happens between now and then, I should (fingers crossed) have an Iphone. Finally. I’m embarrassed to be so far behind technologically. I mean geez, the Iphone has been out for almost 3 months. 
After all who in their right humanistic mind wouldn’t want an Iphone? You can do virtually everything with it. Surf the web (with either 3G network or WiFi), check email, use it as GPS, play games, organize yourself with some planning applications, check stocks (which aren’t going so great as of late), use it as a remote control, watch Youtube vids, take pictures with the built-in camera, check the weather, access your home computer from anywhere with Internet access or even play the guitar. I’ll say it again: even play the guitar. There’s a certain app for the Iphone that allows the user to play the guitar on the touchscreen of the phone. And, underneath it all, it’s an Ipod. If you can think of it, there’s probably an application available to do it on the Iphone. Did I mention the accelerometer?
Apple has an Application Store (App Store) in which you can find applications to download to your Iphone to use. The really neat thing about the App Store is that most of the games are made by independent programmers, not Apple. So your cold hard cash spent at the App Store goes mainly to those geeky 12 year old computer gurus sitting in their boxers eating Cheetos in their parent’s basement. Kinda makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
