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Super Stacking Event Tomorrow

My kids and I will be participating in tomorrow's STACK UP world record-setting event sponsored by the World Sport Stacking Association. According to Matt Reed at WSSA (World Sport Stacking Association), Guinness has officially titled this record as Most People Sport Stacking at Multiple Locations in One Day. This is part of the 2006 Guinness World Records Week. The goal is to have stackers engaged in stacking activity for 30 minutes anytime during the day or night on November 6, Monday.

I expect this to be a lot of fun, and that (along with thousands of stackers around the world) we'll set a record for sure. Since this is the first try, any number of people should be a record. Unfortunately, don't expect to see anybody's name listed anywhere in that record. The projected number of participants right now is around 79,000 stackers.

I am writing this on my way home from Boise, Idaho, while sitting at the Boise airport. I will go ahead and add two more stackers to the projected number, because I was able to recruit two more youth, Kayla and Caleb, to participate in the event.

MyVideos

Yesterday's appreciation program for me and my family was a blast! The slideshow by Jimmy Chueng was great--only problem was that it had too many pictures of me. Nobody else but me would probably want to sit through that long a show of watching pictures of the same person. 'Nuff said.

Staying on the topic of videos on the web, I recently found this video interview that was made in 2003, I think.

As for my video resume from my last blog entry, I uploaded it in chapters to Youtube today. Check it out.

Video Resume finally done!

Ah, the wonders of functionality when all your applications work together. That's a strong selling point for the Mac system.

It's taken the better part of three weeks, but I have finally finished my video memories DVD of my Fort Bend years. The DVD will serve as both memories DVD as well as video resume.

The process described simply has been like this:

Acquired a Mac Mini (1.6 GHZ, 512 MB RAM Superdrive)

Transferred my Photos Folder to the Mac Mini.

Imported pictures to iPhoto, and imported audio files to iTunes.

In iPhoto, went through the pictures and categorized them (slightly over 7,000 pictures)

In iMovie, selected pictures and put them together in a photo/movie clips montage DV movie, added some transitions and soundtrack from iTunes

In iDVD, created menus and sub-menus, and additional content for DVD-ROM section.

Burn DVD, watch, and go back to iMovie and iDVD to revise (several times)

Design DVD jacket for DVD case.

Have my wife Betty ask me to stop revising and be happy.

Mac Mini, iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, and IDVD are all trademarks of Apple Computer

Seeing Double

I've been a Kidology member for a few years now, and nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I do want to clarify that I'm not tooting my own horn, but it is a treat to see a reference to yours truly twice on Kidology. First on the Kidology August newsletter, and then on the homepage for the week (at least I think the homepage gets updated once a week).

Here are screenshots from the August newsletter and the current homepage.

Ten Apples A Day

Instead of an apple a day, what if God provides you with ten apples? And what if He asks you for an apple back everytime? Well, I've renamed the object lesson from One Cycle at Last blog as "Ten Apples A Day."

I've posted the object lesson on Kidology. Check it out here.

the last five years; ramblings & memories

disclaimer: i decided to forego the rules of grammar in this post.

5 years, wow! that's nearly a seventh of my lifetime. here are a couple of pennies' worth of reflection on this period of time.

anne finished 5 years of elementary school in one school district (actually 2 schools).
ellie-joy & nathan came to know Christ as Savior during this time.
joy was hospitalized & had surgery
nathan-now six years old, has doubled his weight in five years (from 26 lbs. to 52 lbs.)
betty and i got our green cards.
except for working part-time in different positions at dallas seminary, fbcc marks my longest employment term ever.
attended cpc (children's pastor's conference) 6 times

i'll keep adding as more random, trivial observations come to mind.