http://rickrussell.org Church Media Technology, Macs, Faith, and Me Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:05:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="M7CL-32 in GYM1"][/caption]At Sugar Creek Baptist Church we just opened a new Family Center. In this new building we have about four rooms with media support and the two larger rooms have Yamaha digital consoles. I was very excited about have features such as offline ... http://rickrussell.org/2008/10/05/yamaha-digital-consoles/ Today I got a call from one of the volunteers in the tech ministry. I love hearing from the team and I really like it when I can be of service to them. Most of the time it works the other way with them serving the tech ministry. ... http://rickrussell.org/2008/09/19/is-there-such-a-thing-as-right-place-right-time/ My friend and co-worker Brandon who for some reason likes killing baby seals (strange) posted about a new game coming out in a few weeks called Guitar Praise. Here is a link to Brandon's post. While I think this is a great idea and I have no ... http://rickrussell.org/2008/08/30/gutiar-priase/ Are you a Leopard user? You just got a free motion background for Pro-Presenter. We were sitting in production meeting last week and I had my laptop up and running. About midway into the meeting my laptop kicked in the screen saver and Stephen loved it and ... http://rickrussell.org/2008/08/18/propreseter-and-a-free-motion-background/ To be honest I don't have a clue.  Safari is fast, easy to use and well integrated into OS X.  Is it because I'm an Apple fan boy that it continue to use it?  When I first switched to a Mac I was a die hard FireFox user and it ... http://rickrussell.org/2008/08/11/why-do-i-like-safari-so-much/ No Fishbowl Originally uploaded by idatasys Decided to see what it is like in the room with the drum shield down. The results will not be in until Sunday, but the drums sounded much more natural. This is the first time that I ... http://rickrussell.org/2008/07/30/no-fishbowl/ We all know that stuff breaks at the most inopportune times.  Currently, I'm flying solo in the production department and my favorite video switcher decides to go on the fritz.  I don't know if you guys are like me or not, but I just can't leave well enough alone.  Just ... http://rickrussell.org/2008/07/26/un-timely-necessary-projects/ photo.jpg Originally uploaded by idatasys In the High End demo room -- Rick Russell http://rickrussell.org/2008/07/17/photojpg-2/ I was driving through Austin yesterday and there appears to be a sign on top of the stop lights that face up. To thin to be a solar panel.  Are they for airplanes to see what road they can land on?  Just found it interesting.  If anyone has any insight let me ... http://rickrussell.org/2008/07/16/stange-thing/       It is day three of Lead 222 at Sugar Creek. It is awsome to work with a great team!!!!   http://rickrussell.org/2008/07/08/photojpg/