Isoperimetric Dancing

It's glitchy 8bit chip sounds trying to dance. 

Created in Ableton Live (8)I also used/contributed a few sounds from/to the Freesound Project.

101 Dry Glide Drums

Glitch Beat

Browser Theremin Effects

Browser Theremin

Mangled Text

Powerpoint Slides for Everyone - 2014 - Week 11

Here it is, here it is - this week's free background image.  I make them each week and share them here.  Free. Use them at home, work, school, church, wherever. Use them on your laptop, or your smartphone.  Print them out and make paper airplanes, if you like.

I only ask that you share them freely and that you tell others that you found them here.

For those who might be interested, the photos that are the two parts of this picture were taken during my recent photo hike at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Prairie City, Iowa.

A Blessing for Transfiguration and Transformation

At the top of the mountain
where the air is clear
and the light of God transforms everything we see,
where that voice speaks loud
and clear from the cloud of his presence,

But also as we descend,
as we move down from the mountain
and reenter the everyday world
of normal routines and predictability,
as we leave the brilliant light of the mountain-side
and move back into the deepening gloam of the valley of shadows

May we see God.

In those ancient witness,
the Law and the Prophets
as they surround us on each side,
as they challenge us and prod us
to do better and to be better
may we see God,

In our leader, our teacher,
our savior and Lord,
Jesus of Nazareth,
may we see God.

And may we, in turn, be illuminated also
by the light of his presence,
transformed by the light of his glory

So that we may carry some of that light with us as we go
so that we may transform the places we go
lighting them from within
with the reflected light of his glory.

May we show God in all that we do.

See Also: A Blessing for Transfiguration Sunday

Iowa Landscape (Winter) - What I Saw and What I missed.

I went out to take some photos this afternoon, but I wasn't out for very long.  1) It was wicked cold.  The wind coming across these big open fields is fierce.  And 2) my camera battery was pretty low. (and the cold drains it even faster).  So I took pictures until I ran out of battery and started for home.

Thats when I saw a huge eagle just off the side of the road, perched in a tree, waiting out the snowstorm.  I know, I know... Pics or it didn't happen.  But it's true.

Iowa Landscape (winter) by Jeff Carter on 500px

Biblical Limericks: Woe to the Unrepentant Cities

Woe to the village of Korazin
(don’t pretend you don’t know what I mean)
for even gentile towns
would be quick to kneel down
and repent if they’d seen what you’ve seen.

And to you in Bethsaida as well,
for your citizens it will be hell;
in Tyre and Sidon
they would have sackcloth donned,
ashes too – they’d heed the warning knell.

And last but not least, Capernaum,
you think you’ll be raised when that day comes
but no, you will go down,
down  with the other towns;
it will be worse for you than Sodom.

Matthew 11: 20 - 24