"How Excellent" - by Brooklyn Tabernacle

Posted on February 26, 2018 by timlyg

Finally, after waited for one week, they posted their last week's worship service online in the WebCast:

https://www.brooklyntabernacle.org/media/webcast

Under Sunday February 25, 2018 (For the service of 2/18/2018)

The song I loved is in the time frame 21:50 - 28:20, titled "How Excellent" - is Your Name. It appears to be a black gospel favorite. Originating from, it would appear, an older hymn: O Lord, Our Lord, How Excellent.

Here's a lesser quality of the same from an earlier time:

Since when was a gospel choir such as Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir interested in counterpoint?

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Vocab from SPG: rejoinder

Posted on February 26, 2018 by timlyg

Kathy's Word of the Week (2/12/2018):

rejoinder

NOUN

1. A reply, especially a sharp or witty one.

'she would have made some cutting rejoinder but none came to mind'

1.1 Law: A defendant's answer to the plaintiff's reply or replication.

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Vocab from SPG: penurious

Posted on February 26, 2018 by timlyg

Kathy's Word of the Week (2/5/2018):

penurious

 ADJECTIVE
formal 

1. Extremely poor; poverty-stricken.

‘a penurious old tramp’

  1. 1.1 Characterized by poverty.
    ‘penurious years’

2. Unwilling to spend money; mean.

‘a tight-fisted, penurious boss whose wage scale is well below other bandleaders’

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Vocab from SPG: taciturn

Posted on February 26, 2018 by timlyg

Kathy's Word of the Week (1/29/2018):

taciturn

ADJECTIVE

(of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.

‘after such gatherings she would be taciturn and morose’

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Vocab from SPG: Rapacious

Posted on February 26, 2018 by timlyg

Kathy's Word of the Week (1/22/2018):

rapacious

ADJECTIVE

Aggressively greedy or grasping.

‘rapacious landlords’

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Vocab from SPG: Recalcitrant

Posted on February 26, 2018 by timlyg

Kathy's Word of the Week (1/16/2018):

recalcitrant

ADJECTIVE

Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.
‘a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds’

NOUN

A person with an obstinately uncooperative attitude.
‘a stiff-necked recalcitrant and troublemaker’

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Vocab from SPG: pernicious

Posted on February 26, 2018 by timlyg

I think it's kind of cool that SPG does this, especially when I realized that these big words are actually very useful.

Kathy’s Word of the Week (2/26/2018):

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pernicious

Pronunciation:
per-ni-cious

Definition:
Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

As used in a sentence:
The pernicious influences of mass media

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HP ELITEDESK 800 G3 DM 65W

Posted on February 23, 2018 by timlyg

Learned some new trick with these brands: Ctrl-Alt-S will show you system information such as Product model, system BIOS version, and many more.

I've received the error message a couple of times now about the 90D-System Temperature Message at boot time since I set it to boot up automatically in the morning at 6AM to run the Printer/Copier meter reading server.

Looked it up, looks like a common issue, that the error maybe shown in error. All that's needed is just to do a BIOS upgrade (from 2.02 to 2.07 in my case).

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Greatest Andromeda Photo with landscape I've seen yet

Posted on February 23, 2018 by timlyg

2018-02-23 Andromeda

www.facebook.com/cosmicartphotography/posts/1159629520807293

"HOW DOES IT FEEL"

It has to be love if you freeze your ass at night while you are doing nothing sensible next to the camera and looking up at the sky! You could think that. And for a few moments that is completely true. But in winter, the biggest part is to demand everything from yourself. Picture by picture, you fight with the desire to go home in the warm room! The cold slowly creeps into your body, the joints become stiff, the movements slow down.

But after hours in the cold, when you press the first time on the button on the camera and see on the display what you have just recorded, then you feel after the first cry of joy only love and heat! So also last night when I photographed the setting Andromeda, my personal favorite subject in the night sky. Until today Nothing fascinated me more and made me dream like this picture which offers us here in Vals winter after winter. Sateltilöckli and the Andromeda, a true love story

Tech specs:
D500, 200-500mm f5.6 @ 200mm Eq-6pro M-Gen
20 x 300s iso800 (sky)
24x60s iso1600 (earth)
8h (Andromeda close up / Ts 70mm APO )
Lr & Ps
Vals, 1300masl
-11 ° C
© Sandro Casutt February 14, 2018

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Billy Graham Tribute 1918-2018

Posted on February 23, 2018 by timlyg

Despite his theological disaster in his later years, I consider him a great man of God. And moreover, his wife Ruth, whom I admire more than him, was the unsung heroine known only to a few, minus Billy himself and the feminists. Here's the tribute from Franklin Graham's FB page to both of them:

There are those who are still adamant that Billy's a false teacher. My response to that is easy: attack where the error lies, attack fiercely, but spare a man's history, spare him fairly. No doubt all would admit that he was a great man of God in his younger days.

Therefore, learn to boldly pursue, catch and crush all false and slippery doctrines, however, be not unctuous for nor against a person's achievement in admiration or in jealous damnation, lest when you fall in his weakness and he repents suddenly and by God's command, rebukes you like that old prophet in Bethel (1 Kings 13).

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