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11/08/2026

Week 7 Chautauqua Science Circle Lecture… “What will Chautauqua’s future climate look and feel like?
And how to talk to your neighbors about it” given by lifelong Chautauquan and Chautauqua friend Meghan Collins, who serves as an Associate Research Scientist at the Desert Research Institute. REALLY important stuff here, folks! I love listening to Meghan every time she gives a lecture, I always learn something good AND especially during this lecture as it’s about talking to our neighbors about what WE can do!

09/08/2026

Tonight’s office #1: recording the Shirley Lazarus Series weekly lecture for the Chautauqua Hebrew Congregation! This week: Lindsey Cormack, associate professor of Political Science at Stevens Institute of Technology talking about her book: “How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It!)”

07/08/2026

In between local IA 266 calls at the Amp and Norton today, I spent the better part of 3 hours rebuilding the Hurlbut livestream computer settings on my Mac Mini M4 that I usually use at home and for other remote productions. The faithful MSI laptop that has served Hurlbut UMC so well since 2020 has a swollen battery, which has pushed up the keyboard and other hardware on the machine. So for safety, it’s now been decommissioned and I’ll run everything off my Mac for the foreseeable future. This is good for a couple of reasons… 1) a machine that is capable of taking Dante and NDI feeds is now ready to go… 2) Restream is something I’ve been wanting to try out for a while now and 3) Qlab can finally be introduced into what I’m calling the Mark V Hurlbut Workflow! OBS will be sending the program feed to Restream, which will send to Facebook, YouTube, and the church website… as well as to page for the Chautauqua Hebrew Congregation and the YouTube channel for the Chautauqua Science Circle. Thankfully I have a Bitfocus Companion Instance running on a raspberry pi 5, so I just had to connect the OB: instance to that for automations to happen seamlessly between that, the x32, and EasyWorship. Not ideal to do this in the middle of the Chautauqua season, but hey… what’s life without a little chaos!?!?

31/07/2026

My morning office was the Amp running projections for the 10:45 lecture. This afternoons office: recording the speeches given by the folks who are at Chautauqua for the first time with the Chautauqua Scholars Program. This is connected with the non-profit “Community Compact CHQ”, which is a high-impact educational experience at Chautauqua for college students. This offers a fully-funded week at Chautauqua for each scholar, and it’s a FULL week for each of them! Today, they share their testimonies about their time in Chautauqua and what they have experienced and learned.

19/07/2026

Tonight’s Office: recording the week 4 Shirley Lazarus Series lecture giving by Robert H. Jackson Center Executive Director Kristan McMahan. Titled: “Justice As Memory” where we are encouraged to understand more of the memory of the Holocaust and all 6 million killed, the legacy of the Nuremberg Trials, and “the responsibility to not look away and the hope to repair.” Kristin is so well spoken and educated on the subject matter, you could hear a pin drop in the audience!

14/07/2026

High energy kick off for the Week 3 Chautauqua Science Circle. And I mean that literally! Catholic Mass ran a few minutes over, so the usual 20 minute turn around was actually closer 15 minutes. Which is why I set the projection gear up the evening before! Our presenter brought his own headset mic and receiver, but there are empty channels available on the x32, so a quick hookup, sound check, and we were in business! Also had to extend HDMI to a projection laptop, as a second laptop is in front of the presenter with notes. Never a dull moment!! This weeks topic is “One Song: The Song of Oneness” given by J.D. Stillwater

09/06/2026

Today’s office: running the AV experience for the 5th Annual Retool Conference hosted by the Jamestown BPU at the ! There are only 6 in house mic channels, so a few more from me needed to be added for the large sessions and the breakout sessions. I always enjoy working gigs here! Plus, you really can’t beat the location!

25/04/2026

Today’s rainy day project: upgrading and reconfiguring my set up for Media Digitization! I am currently able to slides, VHS, VHS-C, 8mm tapes (not reels at this time), MiniDV tapes, and audio cassette tapes to digital formats like .jpeg, .mp4 files, DVD’s, and CD’s. If you have some old family memories that you’d like to convert to a digital format, I’d be happy to help!

26/03/2026

Tonight’s office: running audio and projections for The Southern Tier Builders Exchange at Landmark Restaurant! I’ve been working the annual meeting with this group for 5 years now, and it’s always a blast!

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