We’re still in Portland, sitting in a coffee shop. Are we out enjoying the city? No, of course not, we’re sitting here working on our laptops! (30 sec.)
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Category Archives: vlog
General Assembly update #6
I manage to break away from my volunteer job at General Assembly long enough to go to the closing worship service, where Ysaye Maria Barnwell sang a couple of her songs. Dr. Barnwell is one of my favorite songwriters (and do I have to remind you that she is also a Unitarian Universalist and member of All Souls Church in Washington, DC?). (48 sec.)
I have to admit that I skipped out of the worship service soon after Ysaye Maria Barnwell sang, so I didn’t have to hear my least favorite Unitarian Universalist hymn, “Spirit of Life.”
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Interview with the purple space alien
For this fifth General Assembly update, I interview Peter Bowden and the purple space alien. We talk about using online video as a means for spreading the word about Unitarian Universalism. A pink space alien joins us, and offers his/her/its own, umm, visual commentary. (3:07)
Watch the original purple space alien video….
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30 sec. GA update #4
Over 6,000 people have registered for General Assembly. What’s an introvert to do? (45 swec.)
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30 sec. GA update #3
In this episode, I ask three people why they are attending General Assembly, and get three different answers. (55 sec. — yes, I know it’s over 30 seconds….)
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General Assembly 30 sec. update #2
Tied to a laptop, I experience the opening celebration of General Assembly. (45 sec.)
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General Assembly 30 sec. update #1
Tomorrow I’ll be on a plane headed to Portland, Oregon, to attend General Assembly, the big annual denominational gathering. I’m going to try to do thirty second updates each day of General Assembly, along with written posts. In this first update, I talk about how I hate traveling.
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Live coverage
Hey, you thought CNN was on top of breaking stories. Here’s my live coverage of my participation in the 3rd annual UU bloggers picnic. (30 seconds)
On the rooftops
The rooftops of downtown New Bedford host a Herring Gull nesting colony. Yesterday and today I went searching for gull nests. I climbed up onto the roof of First Unitarian church, roamed the top deck of the Elm St. parking garage, stuck my head out of one of the skylights in our apartment, and poked around into a small urban park, and the video has footage from all four places.
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Yesterday while I was shooting video up on the parking garage, I wound up talking with one of the people who works at the parking garage. Last year, they had a dozen nests up there, and the Herring Gulls made something of a nuisance of themselves. This year, he’s up on the top deck every day, sweeping out nesting material before the gulls get a chance to get settled in. “Just call me an apex predator,” he said.
One final note to those of you who are birders — I’m pretty sure I saw nesting Great Black-Backed Gulls from the roof of the Elm St. Parking Garage, but they were far enough away that you’d need a scope to be sure. They were on a building just about due east from the parking garage.