Archive for August, 2009

LOF#51 – Comeback

Author: lifeonfire

Aug 10

Hello All,

Well, finally, after a new house, a new baby, computers dying, mixer mess-ups and a whole line of other exciting events, the Life on Fire Show has returned.

On this episode we discuss our house, our 4.5 month old son Linus Isidore and tons of movies!  We’ve got the scoop on Coraline, Miss Potter, Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut and a brief touch on Surfwise.

We also discuss home-made bread and the new website.

Hope you enjoy our return to the podosphere and hope to see you again soon.

New feedback email: feedback@lifeonfire.org

Twitter: lifeonfireshow

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Universal Health Care Reform and Catholics

Author: Chris

Aug 6

As everyone knows, President Obama is pushing hard to reform the current healthcare system. This effort will help to reduce insurance costs and will also assist in helping those who cannot afford health insurance to be able to get insured. It is for this reason that the Unites States Conference of Catholic Bishops is also pushing for the change.

However, I was listening to the Catholics Next Door Podcast and Fr. Frank Pavone from Priests for Life was talking about the danger of abortion creeping in to the language of the health care reform act, under the guise of “comprehensive reproductive health care” or “comprehensive women’s health care”. This scared me a bit.

If abortion is forced to be covered by all insurance providers, this would mean that it implies that abortion is a right. However, I can’t see how taking the life of an innocent human being is a right. Murder isn’t a right. It wouldn’t be a right for me to go next door and shoot my neighbor, would it?

The other thing that worries me is the fact that if all insurers must cover abortion, this may mean that Catholic hospitals and care facilities, as well as pro-life doctors, could be forced to offer abortion as an option or to perform abortions, despite it being gravely immoral.

For this reason I wrote to my state representative and senators expressing that I wish that it be clearly stated that abortion not be covered in the health care reform act. I also requested that cord blood donation be better organized and covered by insurance providers, as the stem cells from cord blood are not only ethical, but, also have provided for great treatments for serious illnesses.

I strongly suggest that ever Catholic write their senators and representatives. You can find their information by going to Votesmart.org. Just enter your zip code and there are links to your state’s representatives and senators’ websites where you can contact them.

Health care reform is important, but, shouldn’t result in the further promotion of, and destruction of innocent American citizens.

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Why the podcast didn’t happen, a summary of the madness.

Author: Chris

Aug 4

Ok,

I feel much better than I did last night. Here is the story about what happened.

On Sunday evening I was trying to get my Sony camera working with my computer, for ustream purposes. For some reason, it proceeded to cause my computer to turn off randomly and I couldn’t get the computer working again. It wouldn’t boot.

On Monday I fixed the computer, luckilly it wasn’t truly dead, only to find that the firewire interfaces, which the mixer uses as an output, weren’t working at all. Neither firewire port did anything. I tried uninstalling/re-installing the drivers for the mixer and everything else I could think of to get it working, I think that the firewire control chip on the motherboard may be shot, but, I will need to try some other devices just to be sure.

Anyway, Tanya and I decided that we could make due with the laptop for one week. I installed the drivers for the mixer, for the 10th time during the weekend, onto the laptop and connected the mixer.

The computer saw the mixer! Yes! So I open Studio Rack only to find that it only picks up sound from the right mixer channel, not both. The drivers don’t work properly. The best news yet is that the company that made the mixer, no longer makes this model anymore so, I am stuck. No new drivers will be made for this model.

Now, the other great thing is that, I have never used Studio Rack before. I found that it doesn’t work quite like CastBlaster does. You select an input and it records ONLY from that input. It doesn’t record the bumpers and such along with it, like CastBlaster did. I have since figured out a way around this but, it was very frustrating as well.

There is also a static sound with the mixer. I’m not sure if it is the mic cables or something else…hopefully just the mic cables, which I can replace eventually. However, it was just the additional added frustration I needed to give up on the whole thing!

So, that was the weekend in short, and why the podcast didn’t get recorded. We have since ordered a USB audio interface to connect the line out on the mixer to the computer. I also have thought out a way to get everything to record almost like CastBlaster would. I never used CastBlaster and thought that Studio Rack would work the same way, but, it doesn’t.

Basically, we will need to run everything through the mixer, including the audio out from the computer. This will allow us to play the sound of the bumpers and such right through the mixer and record it through the USB interface, along with our voices.

So, anyway, that is the long, drawn out tale of the Life on Fire podcast fail. Please pray for us as we continue to work to get this going again.

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I’ve HAD IT!!! New podcasts soon!

Author: Chris

Aug 1

Ok,

I was driving to work and I have decided that I have HAD IT! Over the next 24-48 hours there is going to be some RAPID changes to the website and we will be moving it to our actual domain…hopefully.

If God is calling Tanya and I to do another podcast, then it needs to get done. I can’t keep making excuses about drop-down menus not working on the site, or me not having a new logo or opening theme. God has called us to action and, so help us, we are going to act.

The only reason I am posting all of this on my blog as opposed to the Life on Fire ID for the site is because nobody has the Life on Fire twitter account. However, everyone has my normal twitter account. The Life on Fire twitter account is lifeonfireshow . You will see any site-related updates or new episodes of the show on that twitter feed.

Anyway, what am I trying to say in all of this. With the exception of severe baby intervention, Tanya and I will be resuming our podcasting careers sometime Monday afternoon or evening. I am going to try to set up a ustream feed and may even invest in vidblaster so we can use multiple cameras.

I will post more details on both twitter feeds as to a more exact time for a recording but, at this point, we can’t hold this back any longer.

God Bless,
Chris

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