Note: The Featured image today is the pulpit from Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, VA. The “ceiling” of pulpit is what’s known as a sounding board. It’s several layers of different density wood, with the grains in alternating directions. When sound waves bounce off the board, the wood vibrates and actually helps to amplify speech….
Author: Wes Allen
Wes got back in to Role Playing Games during the pandemic and it’s blown up into a wonderful mid-life crisis. He runs the DM Tales YouTube channel and website, GMs two campaigns, and plays online in another with some old friends. His “day job” is a Baptist Pastor in Philadelphia’s Jersey suburbs.
Going Neutral – Part I
I pastor a church in the Baptist tradition. A key element of the Baptist tradition is it’s independence in the calling of the it’s pastors. The congregation, and the congregation alone has the power to call its pastor. This has both obvious benefits and downsides. If a congregation is reasonably healthy and self-aware of it’s…
Agent Carter – an Important Mid-Season Journey
I’m now three hours in to Marvel’s mid-season spy show, Agent Carter. I am quite enjoying it thus far. Agent Carter is a fascinating look into what eventually became SHIELD, and I’m hoping we’ll also get a peek at the way Hydra infiltrated the organization in the post-WWII era. It also makes me glad to…
Back to the Video!
I’ve been fascinated with digital video ever since I first played with pulling on to a Blueberry iMac from a Mini-DV Tape. It didn’t matter to me that iMove took forever to render transitions, or that the audio stunk, or that the Blueberry iMac had a laughable amount of storage to work with digital video….
1Keyboard to Rule them All
My workspace tends to be a multi-device environment. I am often performing a task on my Mac, chatting with someone on my iPhone (often about my current task), and researching a topic on my iPad. For a long time I “suffered” 1 with switching between these devices by moving my hands from device to device…
Workflows brings Automation to iOS
Computer Automation has been something that geeks have known about for a long time. The ability to create a script to run a backup at a particular time each day, pull down tagged information from a text file or database, or set up a template with customized information has been an incredible time-saver. Still, for…
