The Oceana Times: August 2005

How to mow the lawn "western" style!

The Airsoft War

Hitler and his sidekick.

Mean lookin' aren't they?

All together on the battlefield.

Playing music at the Papacs, L-R- Rebecca, Me, Kendra.

The Butterfly Bride Tea (No boys were allowed) This is what happens when girls are banned from airsoft wars and left to their own devices.

Foosball: Butterfly's vs. GI-joes

Watch out, he's loaded!

With the Vawsers

Staying with the Vawser family has been an interesting and informative experience! :) While Mom and Andy edit, the rest of us have been having fun hanging out and playing:)

The "Matt-in Man"

Jeff about to punch Matt out

Tyler playing guitar

At the Shropshires for vollyball,music and games.

Stayin' with the Vawser Clan

By Leighton- I like this one.

It's off to the Vawsers we Go!!!!

We'll we're off to spend a week of editing and undoubtedly pleasant times with our friends the Vawsers. Everybody say a prayer and cross your toes that we will be able to submit the film on time in the San Antonio Christian Film Festival! Tooo-da-lou!

E=Mc2

The Albert Einstein 100 Year Anniversary:

"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details." --

Albert Einstein

Around town we always have something of interest going on. Last Friday, while I was at the library, I saw a flyer for a lecture on Einstein being held later on in the evening. I attended the lecture and was fascinated by the sheer abstract quality of his concepts. I mean, I knew his ideas were abstract but I didn't realize to what degree. The fact that time is altered by speed and gravity is intriguing. Doesn't it say in the Bible that 1,000 years is but a day to God? I wonder if heaven is so far out of any gravitational pull that this is realistically possible...Hmm...sets your brain to thinking:)

*tick* *tick* *tick*

The one thing that I hadn't known, and impressed me greatly, was the fact he conceived a majority of the earth shattering ideas for which he is now well known, during his teen years. Then he published his theories, (Five very thick works all in succession. One after the other every month) while working as a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland. These works included E=Mc2 (the theory of relativity). He was only 26 at the time and didn't even have his degree. Later on he won the Nobel Prize for these ideas (but of course we all knew that:)The most amazing part? He never did any of his own experiments. He just reasoned conceptually and let others figure out why and how it worked.

E=Mc2

Fascinating. Basically it means we now know, that we never knew, what we thought we knew. And what was it we thought we knew? That time is consistent, uniform and unvaryingly measurable. So, from what I understand, if you have a clock, moving above the earth at a consistent rate of speed; gravity, (or the lack of it) causes time to slow down. The clock will lose minutes, while a clock on the earth(affected by a greater gravitational pull) stays constant.

(Yay! The principle of time travel may really be a viable option!!! *snicker* ...okay everybody put your tape recorders away...)

This phenomenon is unexplainable except for the theory of special relativity. GPS would be a wreck were it not for this lovely principle.

Hats off to Albert Einstein; an interesting case study.

Albert Einstein as a patent clerk in Bern.

Music Column: A Concert in Review

"While Sam Bush Concert Bombs: Darlin's Achieve Unparalleled Success!"

On Friday last, hundreds of individuals gathered round the signature white canopy of the music festival. The acclaimed Sam Bush was doing follow-up performance to "Left-Over Salmon".The concert was attended by the prominent Vawser and Hollinger Families respectively. Mrs. Hollinger, wife to the world famous Brian Hollinger of "Hardwoods Camo", declared the concert "unfit" and upon unanimous agreement from the Vawser clan, the gracious support of these two distinguished families was withdrawn, as they left accordingly half-way through the performance.

We will not say that Mr. Bush has no sense of music. However, whatever his success as a musician, it is quite obvious that he is only masquerading as a bluegrass artist. The sounds coming from that stage could not have been labeled bluegrass in good taste; it was some sort of unpleasant noise. In short, his name is much better suited to a beer can than a concert program.

The concert in question was followed later by a short performance by Seanna and the Darlin' Brothers on the lawn in the park. They had just finished their last gig on 1st street downtown and decided to stop off at Memorial Field and grace the multitude with their astonishing talents.
As to the overwhelming reaction to their exceptional skills? Well, we will let the crowd speak for themselves. Seanna and the Darlin' Brothers found their tin cup overflowing with dollars. An offering which the adoring crowd thrust upon the appreciative group between video camera takes and flashing cameras. To quote one admiring fan:

"That was much better than anything on that stage [Sam Bush] tonight! You guys should apply for a spot [give a concert] in the festival next year. You deserve it!"

A quick synopsis? This columnist suggests that Sam Bush leave the bluegrass to the Darlin' Brothers and tell his drummer to stay home!

S.M.H. -The Oceana Times