Baggas' Blog » Video http://www.baggas.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:56:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Wright Wisdom http://www.baggas.com/posts/2010/06/13/wright-wisdom/ http://www.baggas.com/posts/2010/06/13/wright-wisdom/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:37:54 +0000 baggas http://www.baggas.com/?p=2516 Discovered this great video on Vicky Beeching’s blog. My favourite theologian, N T Wright gives his advice to the next generation of leaders. It’s about as succinct as you’ll ever hear from Tom, but it’s top stuff.

Tom Wright: message to the next generation from krish kandiah on Vimeo.

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]]> http://www.baggas.com/posts/2010/06/13/wright-wisdom/feed/ 0 Worship humour http://www.baggas.com/posts/2010/06/07/worship-humour/ http://www.baggas.com/posts/2010/06/07/worship-humour/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:21:25 +0000 baggas http://www.baggas.com/?p=2491 Thanks goes out to John for sending me this video. It’s a pretty funny rendition of what happens when corporate advertising mixes with Christian worship :

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I’m not sure about the rest of this guy Tim Hawkin’s clips though, “Cletus Take the Reel” might appeal to fans of Carrie Underwood, but at all costs avoid the “I Don’t Drink Beer” clip – it’s just plain bad on so many levels ;P

On a similar topic, this reminded me of another great worship related “info-mercial” : Me Worship…

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And to round out this triumvirate of worship related humour, how could I neglect this classic song “Jesus is a friend of mine” by Sonseed! (the thing is I still can’t decide whether this was intended as a joke or not? but it’s hilarious nonetheless)

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Patrick Park – yet another artist I’ve discovered recently. Thanks to Deano for the tip. This guy is great!

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]]> http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/08/16/mia-and-her-brothers/feed/ 0 Mia Laughing http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/07/20/mia-laughing/ http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/07/20/mia-laughing/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:47:33 +0000 baggas http://www.baggas.com/?p=1973 Here’s a video from yesterday of Mia and her cousin Seth, who is just a few weeks older than her. We have never seen her laugh as much as she does here – one of those moments I’m really glad to have captured on video…

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So I was pleasantly surprised with my first listen to the band Casting Crowns. I’ve heard their name plenty but never felt compelled to listen to their music until I picked up their CD Lifesong at Koorong recently (partly due to a recommendation in a recent book I read by Roger Olson). Well it’s a great CD. Musically very tight, melodic and interesting. The main male vocalist sounds a bit like Neil Diamond in places but that’s not necessarily a bad thing :P And the lyrics are honest and original and generally down to earth. Only a couple of lines in one (otherwise very cool) song I didn’t quite see eye to eye with theologically, but at least the fact that I have listened that intently shows how much the music and lyrics have otherwise got me hooked in. I keep intending to take this CD out of my car and play something different, but after at least 5 times through I’m still keen. Well worth getting hold of.

Here’s one of my favourite tracks – Praise you in the storm

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Here’s the lyrics to just one of the good songs on the album, Stained Glass Masquerade. I love the realism and honesty here :

Is there anyone that fails
Is there anyone that falls
Am I the only one in church today feelin’ so small

Cause when I take a look around
Everybody seems so strong
I know they’ll soon discover
That I don’t belong

So I tuck it all away, like everything’s okay
If I make them all believe it, maybe I’ll believe it too
So with a painted grin, I play the heart again
So everyone will see me the way that I see them

Are we happy plastic people
Under shiny plastic steeples
With walls around our weakness
And smiles to hide our pain
But if the invitation’s open
To every heart that has been broken
Maybe then we close the curtain
On our stained glass masquerade

Is there anyone who’s been there
Are there any hands to raise
Am I the only one who’s traded
In the altar for a stage

The performance is convincing
And we know every line by heart
Only when no one is watching
Can we really fall apart

But would it set me free
If I dared to let you see
The truth behind the person
That you imagine me to be

Would your arms be open
Or would you walk away
Would the love of Jesus
Be enough to make you stay

More lyrics from the album here.

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Here’s the preview which I just found at Hello Internet. As Ben points out it’s a bit strange seeing Lucasfilm and Star Wars with a Warner Bros intro instead of 20th century fox

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]]> http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/06/17/mia-movie/feed/ 0 Kung Fu Baby http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/05/22/kung-fu-baby/ http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/05/22/kung-fu-baby/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 06:35:08 +0000 baggas http://www.baggas.com/?p=1866 I walked into the study this morning to find our two boys Owen and Luke sitting at the computer laughing their heads off. The video below, which they had discovered themselves on YouTube, was the reason. See what you think…

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]]> http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/05/22/kung-fu-baby/feed/ 0 Mia at 7 weeks http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/04/27/mia-at-7-weeks/ http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/04/27/mia-at-7-weeks/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:09:34 +0000 baggas http://www.baggas.com/?p=1809 Here’s the latest video of our baby Mia – now nearly eight weeks old. My how she’s grown! :)

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]]> http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/04/27/mia-at-7-weeks/feed/ 0 Windows Software http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/04/26/windows-software/ http://www.baggas.com/posts/2008/04/26/windows-software/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:47:52 +0000 baggas http://www.baggas.com/?p=1808 As I mentioned yesterday, I had to rebuild my PC this week, which included a clean install of Vista and all my other software. So here’s my list of some essential programs for Windows. Anyone have any other suggestions they would add to this list?

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird (email)
  • Office
  • Google Picasa (photos)
  • Exact Audio Copy (CD ripper) with LAME (MP3 encoder)
  • Tag & Rename (MP3 tagger)
  • iTunes & Quicktime

This next one is not essential, but I wanted to test out a game on the new PC and ended up downloading Trackmania Nations Forever. This has to be one of the best free games in history – basically it’s a racing game with a range of extreme tracks and online racing – all for free. I enjoyed the previous version of this game but it wouldn’t run on Vista so it’s nice to have an updated version that works. If you like racing games or just want something to help you waste a few minutes then definitely download this game. Here’s a YouTube trailer for it…

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