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Yesterday…

I’d like to congratulate Bukas Palad for a well executed Choir Convention yesterday. A pat on the back for everyone is very much deserved.

The facts:

  • Easily over a thousand participants. 700 pre-registered, and 600 or more additional registrants showed up on the day itself.
  • We started promptly at 12 noon, and the “convention” part ended at 8:30pm, then we had a mini-concert with special guests, which ended 10-ish. I hope Les (our photographer) was able to get a picture of the people at the the very end of everything because I kid you not that there were still a lot of people who stuck with us till the very end.

What does this imply? It’s obviously a successful 10-hour event! What are the other “extremely long” Catholic gatherings one can think of? World Youth Day would be one of them hahaha. Which is why we’re so proud of pulling it off.

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FutureSonics EM3

Intro

Ok, I’m convinced that USPS (United States Postal Service) is a good mail courier. My headphones arrived yesterday… the same day I tracked the package and found out it arrived in the country.

Though it was priority mail, it wasn’t nearly as pricey as the normal known couriers (FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc.) Shipping it via FedEx et all would range from 70-100USD, which was like 70-100% of the price of the item itself – this was unacceptable. Fortunately my friend’s relative decided to go the much cheaper USPS, which at first I was apprehensive only because of the “safety” aspect (it is a small package and can easily get lost/stolen).

Anyways, there’s quite a backstory involved: On the 16th of June, I had asked a friend to purchase the EM3s for me since his dad was coming home on the 23rd of June. He completed the transaction on the 16th, while at the end of the business week, we figured it was still enough time to get to his dad (since a 3-5 day shipping schedule is pretty much reliable in the US). To cut a long story short, it didn’t make it (it arrived the day after he left). One thing led to another and we ended up agreeing that his relatives ship it internationally, and which is what the initial paragraphs were about.

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iTunes 4.9 design flaw

One of the obvious additions (or probably the only addition, save for some bugfixes) of the iTunes update is the explicit provision to handle Podcasting. I’ve never discussed it before like I did with RSS, and I won’t today.

Suffice to say, it’s a great thing to have, and either you’re down with it or not. Obviously I am 😉

What this post is about however is not about Podcasting per se, but some design/UI flaws I saw with the iTunes interface when it comes to the said feature. No life-threatening stuff at all, but still quite irritating… and I hope they fix/correct them on the next update.

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Intelligent Design

From an open letter to the Kansas School board.

I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design to be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they can choose for themselves the theory that makes the most sense to them. I am concerned, however, that students will only hear one theory of Intelligent Design.

Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.

You can read the full letter here – with nice pictures an all. I for one dig that Coffee mug with the midget (or as they call him/her, “midgit”) hahahaha.

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Scientology

For some odd reason, I found myself wiki-ing the religion which is called Scientology. I guess I saw an RSS feed somewhere discussing how it’s founder was a lunatic, but since I was on the subject, I figured to finally find out what this “Scientology,” which a bunch of high-profile Hollywood people were converting to.

At first I really thought it was the belief in technology or Science (duh). Like how everything can be explained Scientifically (e.g. no invisible all-knowing man who lives up in the sky), that sort of stance. But what I had found was totally different. And I actually had fun digging and searching for more info about it.

Not because it made sense, but quite the opposite: it was utterly ridiculous.

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