Author Archives: Joey Day

Quadcopters

I’m evidently behind the times, but autonomous quadcopters are apparently quite the rage in University robotics research these days. The quadcopters in the following videos were designed and programmed by the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and the Flying Machine Arena at ETH Zurich. According to Wikipedia, MIT’s Aerospace Controls Lab has also [...]

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Like a vain woman who wants compliments

John Piper on C. S. Lewis on praise: Lewis says that as he was beginning to believe in God, a great stumbling block was the presence of demands scattered through the Psalms that he should praise God. He did not see the point in all this; besides, it seemed to picture God as craving “for our [...]

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Sins of ignorance

J. C. Ryle on sins committed in ignorance: But I do think it necessary in these times to remind my readers that a man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty. I fail to see any scriptural warrant for the modern assertion that: ‘Sin is not [...]

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A cow. Wut?!

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Fifteen

The university I work for, Western Governors University, is celebrating fifteen years this year, and it just occurred to me I’ve been around for nearly half those years (the last seven). It started out a pretty amazing idea by some pretty amazing people, turned out to be a pretty amazing university, and I consider it [...]

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Two

My wife wrote a lovely happy birthday message to our recently-turned-two-year-old this week, and toward the end she remarked, “I am curious what your daddy would add to this list…” So here I am adding to her list. Happy birthday, E. You have no idea how much you are worried about, gushed and cooed over, [...]

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Coco plays with crayons

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Caine’s Arcade

This made me smile today.

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On consistency between Biblical authors

I was explaining to my wife the other night that whenever I encounter a difficult passage in the Bible, I try to look for related information from the same writer. I don’t immediately jump over to passages in other books of the Bible, pitting one passage against another and letting them duke it out to [...]

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The one where E destroys a bookshelf

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    Joey Day is a thirty-something IT professional (read: big nerd) living in Salt Lake City, Utah. When he grows up he’d like to be a Seminary professor (read: even bigger nerd).

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