Outline of Sound Tests on Vimeo, July 4th

The permanent link is here: 

Outline of Sound Tests, Rode (sound card plug) and Snowball (USB) Microphones.

The blackouts have been annoying. Yesterday, it was slight for one household, only a few seconds for another one. I now have it set up so I can see that happening and I can stop until the monitor shows it working again. Yesterday's blip was too short for me to notice.

Today I have a script, this post, to guide the combinations I am trying - only one at a time, to avoid getting all the wires crossed. There may some ideas from the camera manufacturer, but I will do these first. I will use the Tacoma hymns for the sound.

1. The white Logitech camera, with built in sound. Actually, this will be a later test, because that is a good but inferior camera.

2. HDMI zoom camera, the way we usually have it. We get a warbly sound from the organ. I understand this is problem with Vimeo. We had that problem with IBM/Ustream but found a solution in how the plug was used in one slot or another - and it varied. 

3. Moving the mike around, which is plugged into the sound board.

4. Using the big white mike, which will be plugged into a USB slot.

I do not assume these alternatives will work, but we have the equipment to try it out. I have read that compression of the sound is the cause. I will consider local help after discussing this with Vimeo.

An Amusing Thought or Two

 Theodore Letis

Theodore P. Letis

“Moreover, those clergy who have obediently fallen in line with the New Tradition have sent a clear signal to their parishioners and colleagues that, unlike William Tyndale, they no longer find the verbal view of inspiration compelling.”

The Ecclesiastical Text: Text Criticism, Biblical Authority, and the Popular Mind, 1997.

H. L. Menken, Famous Journalist and Agnostic

“It is the most beautiful of all the translations of the Bible; indeed, it is probably the most

beautiful piece of writing in all the literature of the world. Many attempts have been made to purge it of its errors and obscurities. An English Revised Version was published in 1885 and an American Revised Version in 1901, and since then many learned but misguided men have sought to produce translations that should be mathematically accurate, and in the plain speech of everyday. But the Authorized Version has never yielded to any of them, for it is palpably and overwhelmingly better than they are, just as it is better than the Greek New Testament, or the Vulgate, or the Septuagint. Its English is extraordinarily simple, pure, eloquent, lovely. It is a mine of lordly and incomparable poetry, at once the most stirring and the most touching ever heard of.”—H. L. Mencken

My Amusing Thought

I have heard many theologues defend bad paraphrases gleaned from a butchered Nestle-Aland Greek text. 

They are always so haughty. Their paraphrases (not qualifying as actual translations) are superior to the King James because they are superbly clear in their language.

Answer - That is why they change their wording every few months? They do not even wait for a new edition. Changes happen more often that the stipulations on our online credit accounts.

Some faux-conservative Lutherans say in a superior tone, "I do not use the NIV. I use the ESV."

Answer - No one should use the NIV, but the ESV is simply another flavor of the Marxist National Council of Churches' apostate RSV.

"Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus are the oldest Bibles in the world!"

Answer - If they believe leather can burn and the oldest Bible was used to heat up the library in a monastery dedicated to ancient manuscripts, then it is no surprise that they rely on Vaticanus, which comes from the Mother of All Frauds - the Pope. When was the last time Lutheran "scholars" said a good word about Luther or a bad word about the Antichrist?

I will be posting more KJV quotations from The King James Version: Apostolic Texts, Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translation. Look for them in the masthead or in the book.

 Voelz, the grammarian, produced the gigantic Mark commentary - based on Vaticanus! - at Concordia Publishing House, CPH. Seminex won and their leader sits on his throne at the Purple Palace, worshiped as a god.

No Rain, No Prediction of Rain. The Skies Opened Up a Powerful Thunderstorm

I was watering the drying hostas, coconut daisies, Poke, and Joe Pye. The phone rang and I had an enjoyable conversation with a member. That lasted about an hour, so it was time to turn off the sprinkler. I looked out - "What broke? Where is this coming from?" The rain came rushing down in a cloudburst that stayed in place. To turn off the spigot, a few feet from the back door, I had to get soaked, but that was a great feeling of relief. 

Tons of water were coming down, slackening a bit, then pouring down even harder on wilted plants, dry grass. Even the weeds look pitiful, but they were coming to life and greening up.

I got on dry clothes, then looked out the front. Was the rain-barrel filling up? My brain said, "Of course!" but I had to check. Getting wet again, with a little roof coverage, I found the rain-barrel filled and overflowing. All my barrels and buckets in the back were lined up - but had to be filled up in the rain. Why rush in hot humid weather when rain was not expected for another week? Put not your trust in meteorologists! They do not make little mistakes but shock us with their enormous mistakes, severe weather warnings instead of another sultry day, 95 degrees.

Here is the funny part about a line of full rain-barrels and buckets. They are not needed for some time, maybe not until the next rain. When each container is absent water and has only a bug or spider at the bottom, rain is on everyone's mind. Each day our clay soil gets whiter, and we ask each other, "What is your info on the next storm?"

Surprise! We had 50 mph winds, some reports of hail. Ranger Bob came back later because an enormous fallen tree was across a country road. Now I have brimming buckets and barrels with no compelling need to water anything. 

As Luther wrote, when we have an abundance of God's blessings, which come from the Gospel, we begin to take those blessings for granted, as if everything will remain the same, no matter how much we neglect the Scriptures and teaching faith in Jesus Christ as access to God's grace and forgiveness, KJV Romans 5:2 - the verse they dare not quote.

KJV Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Although God patiently waits for us to turn away from apostasy, the tools of Gospel learning are largely scattered and unused, replaced by alarming Scripture frauds (NIV, ESV, RSV) and Management by Objective phonies, recycling the gaseous wastes of Peter Drucker.