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Since teewee hasn’t posted any new SOTD for a while I thought I would share a song. But this is quite a different genre than what he has been sharing lately.

So heard the new The Fray song on the radio and thought it was pretty good. Looked up what the song meant and apparently:

You Found Me is a tough song for me. Its about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you’re let down, sometimes you’re the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on… It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest.

Thought that was pretty cool… I always knew The Fray were Christians, so I decided to look up more on them. Apparently Christianity Today did an interview with them in 2006. What they said was really cool and inspiring. Apparently the band was largely formed in Denver churches where the band led worship (so they weren’t just “Christians” but they actually served in worship too!). And “The band avoided Christian record labels, saying God called them to the secular market instead.”

I always wondered what Christian secular bands (like Switchfoot or Lifehouse per se) would say for people saying why are they doing secular music. I think they gave one of the best answers I have heard – read the interview if you want the full details, but basically the answer is their jobs are musicians – they are not pastors, not preachers, not missionaries – just like a Christian painter does not have to paint Jesus in every picture, a Christian musician does not have to sing about Jesus in every song. Paint (or sing) well enough and people will ask you why and how you do it.

Anyhow just thought all this was very inspiring and wanted to share. The song’s arrangement was also very inspiring on how I can incorporate it into worship too…. hehe.

Whilst browsing the net, watching some youtube video on a getty photographer, I thought of this article I remember coming across several months back. At first I thought YFA posted it here but cant seem to find it, so here it is

The Ultimate Setup

Basically discusses the photography setup in gross detail for the final games in the NCAA. Pretty cool, cos they talk about the strobes that are all mounted overhead, and how the photographers have to take their turns in using the strobes, due to the flash recycling. Definitely would be a dream job to be an assignment photographer for Getty or AP or National Geographic. Check it out!

This christmas marks the first time (in many years) that I’ve come home for the christmas holidays without a desktop. Due to lack of transport, I was limited to no more than my MEC backpack and my camera bag (which I had to bring). After attempting to play TF with sadd3j the first night, at a whopping 6-7fps (the only class I could play was engineer), and trying my brother’s desktop that had no dedicated video card, I decided, it was time to make things happen. And that meant, going to look for a video card. Because the computer is new (and not so old) I couldn’t use JasonC’s old card that Jon had as it was AGP. So I landed on this 2600XT, it’s the card sadd3j is currently using for in his macpro. Coming in at just under $70, it will be my christmas gift to my brother as he’s bored out of his mind without much to do.

(You’ll have to excuse the crappy iphone quality of the photo)

Anyway, first impression of it, it was definitely a bit step up from having no card. Comparing the performance to my imac is a better comparison. Not having the imac with me, I can only review based on memory. The card is smooth, but only when details are set to around medium, video looks noticeably better in Left4Dead than TF2. There were a few instances last night when TF2 frames dropped to 15, and began to slug down. But I’m not sure if that’s the card’s performance as it maybe more attributed to the 1gig ram in the computer. Perhaps I’ll be able to get better performance if I throw in 2 more gigs. We’ll have to see…