Cons: Two small blemishes on the back side of the cutaway, and the large plastic plate that holds the battery compartment (on the back) is missing one of four screws. It’s around here somewhere. This doesn’t cause anything to be loose in any way, as the black plate fits in very tightly – and in fact barely fits in the defined spot. Line 6 cut that one close, I guess.

I have a Line 6 power supply to go with the included “XPS Mini” direct/power box that comes with it.

Honestly, I’d love to fetch a full $450 for it.

Let me know what you think. Humans: Use the contact page.

You can see this new, with reviews, on Amazon. It comes with a working Line 6 XPS Mini DI/Power box (example seen here) for powering over a TRS cable (rather than batteries). I also have a Line 6 Power Supply (optional), if you don’t have one.

Note: To use the power supply and XPS Mini DI/Power (instead of batteries) you’ll need to use a “Balanced, TRS” cable, instead of a regular “mono” style guitar cable. Something like this.

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This message was too big to post on Facebook, so here it is!

You may have heard that we’ll have a presence at this year’s International Goat Days Festival (http://www.internationalgoatdays.com/). The praise band will be playing on stage on Saturday, as well as at least 3 other Hands Team/performance groups, and I believe our Royal Rangers group will be participating in a camp-out (I’m fuzzy on those details).

Goat Days is September 10th and 11th (Friday, 5pm to 10pm, and Saturday, 7am to 10pm).

Lighthouse will have a booth at Goat Days with information about our Church, Revelation House, and even handing out some free water during the day on Saturday. The booth is *covered* and has electricity – so if it’s hot, there will be at least one electric fan blowing!

I’m trying to schedule some people to just be available at the booth on Friday, Saturday, or both, so that people can easily swap out, take breaks, go eat, leave, etc, without leaving the booth alone.

In addition to manning the booth, there is a need for volunteers that could periodically sweep through the Goat Days “Sit-a-spell” area (covered seating for elderly, eating, and just hangin’ out) and straighten chairs/remove garbage from tables. This is just a bonus,  but if you’re interested, that would be especially awesome, and the City of Millington will be very grateful. =)

If you know of a specific time slot (as few as 15 minutes) that you will be available on Friday and/or Saturday, please get in touch with me!

Also, feel free to pass this along to anyone that might be interested.

You can contact me via Facebook (send me a message!), emailing goatdays@tommygeorge.com, or by phone at 901-213-8669. If none of that sounds good, call the Church office at 901-873-3000 and let them know what time slot(s) you’d like to fill.

Thanks so much, I’m excited to see you there!

Tommy George

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“Why do you remain here even now?” She asked, sobbing. “Because, here is where you are,” the Lamb said softly, “And I long to be with you.”

A lyric from Showbread (@rawrock) from “The Beginning” on their album Nervosa.

I don’t like to be all poetic and such here, and therefore generally try to avoid posting lyrics and the like, but this stood out at the moment and I wanted to capture it right here.

On a side note, if you aren’t familiar with Showbread, I suggest you become that way. Their albums span a decent range of style, so I’m sure there’s something in their library for you.

Having the [legacy product] code to refer to is crucial to the database design work we’ll be doing on the new project.

It’s a bit like saying “Hey guys, obviously the old software isn’t meeting our needs, but let’s base our new, replacement idea on the old code”. That’s not going to be easy to do. In fact, I’d venture to say that the smarter, clearer way to go would be to take a good look at your current requirements, go over your use cases, and “user stories”, and start from scratch.

I’m willing to be 90% wrong here, in general cases, except for where my vagueness and ambiguity hides the real-life project to which I have direct knowledge.

Moving away from the technological view, and into your life -

Are you trying to compare your past to the present, in order to build the future?

Forgetting the past and taking a good inventory of the resources you currently have available is going to be the most stress-free way to move forward.

Of course you need to examine history to learn from your mistakes, and observe the way others have done things correctly. But when it’s time to move on to something new, it’s hardly ever good to use old material to build something new.

Old wine-skins, new patches, and all that.

[concerning the use of the internet, and social applications] … your users are already doing this, in your pews.

If they’re online, why aren’t they talking about you?

And one that ties it together, and prompts you to take this seriously:

The internet is a ‘web’ of links. With nothing to link to, even their mentions (of you) aren’t “sticky”.

Think about that.

I think I jotted those down while listening to an episode of Geeks and God.

And I remember, for some odd reason, the sound of someone stumbling to the bathroom in the middle of the night, fiddling around to find some noisy container, shaking something out of it, and heading back to whatever bed they crawled out of. (It was mostly the adults or grandparents – “the old people” – doing this).

Tonight, I found myself trying to quietly enter the bathroom, dig through the cupboard to find the headache medicine amongst the basket of once-used “pink stuff”, bug spray, allergy relief, etc; and to shake out just one of a crowd of those little pills, and quietly make my way back to the room.

Somehow, I found myself listening to all of these sounds from outside my own perspective and I realized what was happening: I now fully qualify for the “old person” award, given out by my 10-year-old self. Thanks, self.

I’ve never read any of his books, and very little of his blog, so I’m not here to vouch for anything he says. What I’d like to point out is the full title of this book:

Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc.

The title alone is worth thinking about.

I don’t use Perl for any personal or work projects, but stumbled upon a Perl Buzz post that contains a great quote:

If someone asks you about your project, can you explain its awesomeness, and why he should use it? If not, why are you bothering? And if you can, are telling everyone you can about it? If not, why are you bothering?

Obviously, this applies to not only a “project”, but almost any context you can think of. Essentially, if you’re not doing something worth talking about, is it worth doing at all?