jeff’s blog

check out jon miller’s photoblog at photoblog.liquidretro.net. some really good shots there… post some comments for him if you feel like it :)

a friend from online suggested i start a photoblog, which i have done here:

http://photoblog.wisch.org

i’ll add a link to it in a bit hopefully. feel free to comment in either place

i blew things up today. what did you do?

downed conductor arcing fault tests. lines like this can lay on the ground (energized) indefinitely in a high impedance fault condition. our lab is famous for doing the pioneering work in characterization and detection of these type events.

redemption.

sometimes we’re quick to write people off, to say thay’re beyond help and hope. we disregard the good they’ve done and say that because of some mistake or sin they are no longer useful or worth being saved.

how unlike Jesus.

the great Gospel message - the Good News that is for all people - is that no one is beyond redemption.

and when people stumble
and when people fall
we
like Jesus
are called to be in the business
of redemption.

i fear appeasement is a dangerous road. it is not unity, but merely the appearance of it. there is no more unity after today than before. we must take care, lest we find ourselves unified around an empty nothing.

took a few pics tonight at the bush library to unwind. here are a couple of them:

quick update: we’ll be running experiments on tuesday. it should be cool. stay tuned.

supposed to teach the high school class on sunday. topic of discussion:

My dear brothers and sisters, be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Your anger can never make things right in God’s sight.

So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the message God has planted in your hearts, for it is strong enough to save your souls.

And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to. If you don’t obey, you are only fooling yourself. For if you just listen and don’t obey, it is like looking at your face in a mirror but doing nothing to improve your appearance. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. But if you keep looking steadily into God’s perfect law–the law that sets you free–and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.

If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are just fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. Pure and lasting religion in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for orphans and widows in their troubles, and refuse to let the world corrupt us.

powerful stuff… thoughts?

so we went tonight to try and pull the starter off of jeff’s car. unfortunately it got dark and we only pulled the solenoid off. so sad.

anyway, since i didn’t have anything useful to do, i took pictures.

“As we enter into this week, I pray that you would contemplate with me the nature of Christ - the one who allows such betrayal, who opens himself to such betrayal and somehow manifests love in the most trying of circumstances. I know that’s easy for us to talk about, and it’s really hard when we’re in the trenches trying to love people who seem unlovable, whose words and actions cut to the very core of who we are - it’s the hardest time to love. Yet as we read the scriptures - especially as we walk toward the cross this week - it seems to define the essence of Christianity in so many ways.”

-Chris Seay (3/20/2005) listen here