Money Answereth All Things....

And if I had more of it, I'd buy one of these.

It's a 30 inch monitor from Dell, that rivals Apple's 30 inch cinema display for quality, but when it comes to price, is a much better unit for the likes of me.

Warning: Beginning tech talk.

Cool info on this. With a screen like this, native HD resolution field monitoring is capable with a camera like the Panasonic HVX200. Because HD has been primarily designed for digital, this monitor is completely suitable for the cause of monitoring without worrying too much about ranges and light. At least, according to one report by a lead guy on an HD software development team. I may be wrong though.

End of tech talk.

Cool info. With a computer like the Mach V from Falcon, I can hook up FOUR of these 30 inch displays, resulting in over 100 inches of display width! (no, it's not 120, because of the diagonal line thing).

Also, this screen natively displays WQXGA, which is much higher resolution than even my CRT monitor.

End of even more Tech Talk.

More info on Books.

Currently going through some more books.

I'm reading 'Entebbe' by Iddo Netanyahu. I started it a long time ago, but never finished it. It looks like it'll be really good. I'm only on page 11, with it sitting here open before me as we speak.

Over to my right, is 'A Table in the Presence' by Carey H. Cash, which I'll read when I'm done with Intebbe. It's a story of Marine Chaplains in Iraq, from what the cover says. :-P I've heard excellent reviews on it.

To my left is 'The Art of Leonard Knight', which I'm reading for the fourth time, trying to expand my general knowledge and feeling about this guy I've never met, but am supposed to interview for four days straight. It will be interesting. I've gotten an email from one person asking how on earth I managed to get interview time with him, when he's recently denied many major networks the right to document his story.

I suppose God just loves his people working with each other, for each other.

Also a course of current study, is 'Cinematography: Theory and Practice' by Blain Brown. Wow, this book is a manual. It's deceiving in that it doesn't look very thick, but in truth, it's crammed with technical data. There is no way a person could read this book and retain even an 1/8'th of the information. I have trouble making my way through it.

So far, I've thoroughly enjoyed his knowledge of light and optics, but it's been work to get through. It's definitely a 'learners' book. Not a 'readers' book. A learners book, you open it, read the contents list, find out what you need to know, and read it.

A readers book you pick up, start and the beginning and the author carefully and skillfully pulls you one way or the other, keeping you on your toes, making it interesting.

Sadly, we're in a culture filled with more 'readers' than 'learners' Ask Tait. Really interesting stuff is available.

Had a great day at church yesterday. Learned a lot. Ate a lot. Had a good conversation with Jeff Reins and with Pastor Bacon, as well as John Reighard. Just a lot of good people.

Well, I must go read some more. You all have a wonderful time, and God Bless!

~ In Christ, John.