I'm very sorry I haven't put this online sooner, but I've been a bit preoccupied lately... The Kenrick-Glennon Lions have begun their Fall 2008 soccer season with both a victory and a defeat; one game we beat the opponent 2-1, and the other game, well, we lost. Don't ask the score.
You can find the schedule for the rest of our season on this CYC web page, but it basically says we have a game every Sunday from now until November 30 at 2:45 p.m. on the Seminary's soccer field. There is no bye week this year, so you're bound to see a game if you come out on any given Sunday.
I just posted an article on this site concerning the insanity known as converting high-definition movies from HD-DVD or Blu-Ray to Quicktime compatible files. The most annoying thing about the process of doing this conversion is the immensity of the data involved. Typically the process will gobble up 40-60 GB of hard drive space per movie, until you're finished. You can compress down to about an 8 GB file if you want, keeping the surround sound and very good quality video, but I've decided to keep the original video tracks so I can re-convert them in the future, if need be, to a better format.
I'm still working on the end result, though. I want to be able to playback the uncompressed source files in Quicktime, but so far the best I can do is a stuttering playback using Perian—it will try playing the VC-1 encoded video, but do a fairly poor job at it. The best program I've found for doing this is Plex (a media player/interface, like Front Row), but Plex isn't the perfect solution for what I want to do...
I've yet to buy any Blu-Ray movies, simply because the movies and players for them are too expensive; $25 for a movie that I could get for $5-10 on DVD doesn't work for me, and there aren't that many that I'd be interested in anyways. I bought the Bourne Trilogy, Planet Earth, the Mission: Impossible Trilogy and a few other HD-DVDs for a bargain-basement price, and bought an Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive (uses USB 2.0 and plays nice with Mac/PC) for less than 1/10 of it's original price, and I have to say, once you go High-Def, you cringe every time you look closely at DVD playback!
I have posted pictures from the Solemn High Mass held during a day-long workshop on the Extraordinary Form of the Holy Mass, which was celebrated in the "Old Kenrick" St. Vincent De Paul Chapel. Now the Cardinal Rigali Center (housing the Archdiocesan offices), the chapel used to serve the students and faculty of the Kenrick School of Theology, the Archdiocese's major seminary. The chapel is built using choir stalls, and is ornately decorated with wood carvings and beautiful stained glass. Click here to see all the pictures.
A list of 28 priests of the Saint Louis Archdiocese was released today, indicating those who were given papal honors. A more detailed explanation of what all this means is given on the Archdiocesan Website. Here's a replication of the list on that website of those receiving the different honors:
