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There is a free Microsoft Plug-In for PowerPoint 2002 & 2003 called Microsoft Producer that can help integrate video better into a PowerPoint show. Download it from Microsoft's PowerPoint page. If you want video editing on a budget, Pinnacle Studio 9 is the way to go. Best Buy had the Studio AV/DV package on sale last week for $79, including an analog capture card. The software itself usually retails for $99, although you can usually get it for less. If you need to capture video off of a computer screen (and the program doesn't support AVI capture) then look at the screen recorder called CamStudio. Right now, I'm in the process of helping some guys on the Net do a fan-video off of a videogame. Should be fun.

For those who don't know, Ana is Mrs. Grizzy, and has been off and on this site and Waydale since before I started. She knows good and well what type of site this is, and the next ulterior motive she has in asking for something here will be the first. Welcome back, (((Ana)))! :D-->

A broken clock might be right twice a day, but a broken record is always annoying. You can guess to which object I find Mike most similar.

Long Gone: Oooooo. Heavy, dude. A branch in a juice glass--that's a groooovy miracle! Do you have, like, a class or somethin' I can take?

The telling statistic is this one: Agree with Mike - 0% Disagree with Mike - 100%

Cute, Tom. Inappropriate, but cute.

Dot: Interesting Trivia Dept.-- 28 Days Later was shot entirely with commercial digital video cameras and then the finished print was transferred to 35mm film. That's why the rain shots look so bizarre--video cams have faster exposure than film. Just Watch The Trailer Dept.-- Along Came Polly is the latest victim of "all the funny bits are in the trailer". It's not that it's a terrible movie, but save your money. If you've seen the preview, you've seen the film.

Refiner: You make a good point, but may I add that it's usually the case that agnostics hate the idea of "church" more than the actual idea of "God"?

Hope: Looks like you called a bunch of the bits in the finale correctly. Good eye! Never really got into 6FU, though. TV is getting kind of empty now that the seasons for 24, The Shield, The Sopranos, and Deadwood are spent. (Ok, so there's one more ep of The Shield but that's tomorrow night.) At least nip/tuck starts Season 2 next week! :)-->

Geez, I'm not all that bad, am I? :)-->

house: I remember when I was in that those Official Lift List™ sheets had a long list of people to pray & SIT for, but "Yourself" was at the very bottom. Immediately after POP hit, they changed the sheets and put "Yourself" at the top. Talk about a Band-Aid on a blown-off limb...

It just doesn't wash. Look at the dozens of times Jesus referred to "God" in the Gospels, instead of "me". Look at Gethsemane. Why in the world would God need to pray to God, especially if the "person" he was praying to was "of the same substance" and "co-equal"? Look at Matthew 19:17: Two things leap out from this verse. First, if this were any other book, it would be obvious to all that Jesus is correcting the questioner's mistake, yet trinitarians have told me (with a straight face, even) that what Jesus is really doing is affirming that the questioner has correctly indicated him as God. Think about that for a minute. If that were the case, the first 15 words of Jesus' response are completely irrelevant unless Jesus is speaking from pride. The word "pride" is used 46 times in the KJV, none of which in a positive light. If the questioner knew Jesus was God, and presumably Jesus knew Jesus was God, then the first part of the response is nothing but a boast. That's not something a sinless man or god would do.The second glaring problem is that after Jesus establishes the sole good as God, he says only "keep the commandments." Not "my" commandments, not "our" commandments. If Jesus had just established himself as God, and everyone knows the commandments came from God, there's little reason to use the definite article instead of a personal possessive pronoun. If the Christian fathers really knew Jesus was God all along, why on Earth would there have been 300+ years of debate over it? No one questioned the resurrection or the virgin birth enough to convene an ecumenical council, why would something so supposedly concrete as the bedrock of all orthodox Christianity even be questioned? Another thing--does the trintarian "Father" have a human form? The traditional "old white-haired man on a throne" model of God, in other words. Wouldn't that make the Father "fully man and fully God" just as the Son is supposed to be? Well, why did the Holy Spirit get the short end of the stick then, if the Father and Son both got something it didn't? It just doesn't add up. It diminishes nothing about Jesus to have him be Number Two to God Almighty. There's certainly no shame at all in "only" being the Penultimate Entity in all Creation! But since he didn't go around demanding worship, and since he certainly spent a lot of time praying to some higher Person, trying to force our Lord into also being our God makes about as much sense as gilding a lily.

In my opinion, one of the main strikes against trinitarianism is that, while it claims to treat all "three" "persons" equally, in practice it usually results in the Son being exalted over the Father. They're so involved in a Jesus-cult of personality that they HAVE to elevate him to godhood so they won't consider themselves idolaters. While I have no doubt that God entrusted Jesus with all of His power and authority, I also have no doubt that if Jesus had eaten the Eden fruit (so to speak) while he was here, he would have found himself taking the dirt nap next to Adam's. In other words, a strong case can be made that God could veto Jesus, if necessary. (cf. Gethsemane) Therefore, God > Jesus, and subsequently Jesus <> God. But that's just my opinion.

You know...if GOD were as all hot & bothered about the "Way Korps COMMITMENT™" as the leadership was, don't you think He could have altered the mother's ovulation time juuuust enough for it to avoid all those debbil-spurt sperm? I mean, it's obvious He knows HOW to do it, (*cough*Jesus, Mary*cough*) so how dare He screw with the all-important COMMITMENT™? After all, those Corpsling ladies had all these people,er spiritual partners, praying for, er, believing with them to fulfill their COMMITMENT™, so He should have been FORCED to deliver up on the receiving, cuz we all know it's a Law™... Or didn't He get that memo from Der Reichstag, er, the Way Corps Office? Geez, no wonder the ministry went into the crapper. The Way Korps develops this Perfect Training Program For Gin-U-Wine Godlyish-ness, and the Creator of the Universe has to come along and fork the whole thing up! Way to go, God. If You hadn't dropped the ball, The Way would be Uber Die Welt, er, Over The World™ today! Gee, thanks, God. Thanks a whole LOT...* Zix (*In the wonderful and powerful name of Jesus Christ!)

Tom: About the map, I'll give you a big hint. Why was it that Lupin knew how to operate the map, but Snape didn't? ;)-->

I swear I saw that horse twitch. Hand me that two-by-four.

Tom: Shooting at some Blue guy. ;)--> (www.redvsblue.com)

The armchair quarterback never misses a pass on Monday morning.

So you're basically calling Rascal a liar, despite the fact that you have neither firsthand knowledge of the incident, nor any demonstrable evidence to cast that aspersion upon her.Nice.

Win98 is not an inherently-slow operating system--it runs like a bat out of hell on a 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 with 256MB of RAM. Mark: The slowdowns are probably a combination of an older, slower hard drive, just 128MB of RAM, and only minimally the speed of your CPU. A Pentium III should be more than enough for 98. However, you're at the point where it's cheaper overall to buy a new machine like one John pointed out than to patch-fix the other problems. You may not be able to find compatible RAM at a cheap price for the old machine, and by the time you sink $100 in RAM, $89 for WinXP, and another $100 into a new hard drive, you're in the whole-new-machine general ballpark anyway. Best Buy's weekly wonder-special is about $389, if memory serves.

The point is that TWI publicly taught that abortion was not murder, and it was up to the woman to choose whether it was right or not for her (according to a pad of belief sheets TWI gave me when I went out WOW), yet PRIVATELY reneged on that "choice" and required Rascal and others to abort pregnancies for no legitimate reason. Therefore, it was two-faced, manipulative, and coercive--the exact opposite of a ministry supposedly based on godly love and moral principles. That you or I were not personally privy to this coercion does not mean it did not exist, especially in the face of Rascal's first-hand testimony. One can't say TWI was innocent of forced abortion just because it wasn't preached from the Big Tent.

Tom: No, that's Filch.

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