the good donut

Time to Say Goodby...

2007-12-20T08:39:00.000-08:00

Alas, I have decided to leave Blogger. I will now be posting on Wordpress. I was trying to re-design my blog and was running into difficulties. I have found that Wordpress allowed me to do some of the things I wanted much easier.

By all means check out the new sight at:

http://thegooddonut.wordpress.com/

Video of the Week 12/14

2007-12-14T12:35:00.000-08:00

World Water Crisis

2007-12-06T20:06:00.000-08:00

According to the United Nations 1.1 billion people lack adequate drinking water and 2.6 billion people are without adequate water for sanitation. Without water for sewage disposal, cross-contamination of drinking water by untreated sewage is the chief adverse outcome of inadequate safe water supply. Consequently disease and significant deaths arise from people using contaminated water supplies; these effects are particularly pronounced for children in underdeveloped countries, where 3900 children per day die of diarrhea alone.²

The global water crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. In fact, diarrhea kills six times more people than armed conflict. Of the people around the world who lack access to water, 720 million are in Asia. There are 2.6 billion people who lack access to sanitation, of whom 1.9 billion are in Asia.²

I am a professional Water Treatment Technician. I work to purify water for industry—electronics specifically.

Over the last several months I have been increasingly burdened by the fact that every 17.6 seconds a child will die from water related illnesses.²People are dying for want of something most of us take for granted. I feel I can no longer stand by and do nothing.

Over the next few months I will be seeking out what God is doing to meet the needs of people in this area and how I can be a part of it. I would ask that you be praying for discernment and wisdom on my part as I follow His prompting and lead my family into this area.

If you would like to be kept up to date on what God is doing in this critical ministry please feel free ask. You can e-mail me at:

patrickkeener[at]netzero.net

or just ask me as our paths cross in every day life.

“Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you? Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.”

Matthew 25:44-45 (NIV)

1. http://www.nrdc.org/international/summit/summit3.asp
2. http://www.undp.or.id/press/view.asp?FileID=20061109-1&lang=en

Evel Knievel (October 17, 1938-November 30, 2007)

2007-11-30T16:32:00.001-08:00

As a kid in the 70's I would watch Evel Knievel on Wide World of Sports. I rode with cards in the spokes of my bike. We jumped everything we could. Today with the common place eXtreme sports we forget that Evel was a true pioneer and icon. I will likely never forget the Snake river jump. It makes me more than a little sad to see the passing of a childhood hero.

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. Evel Knievel

Photography Portfolio 9

2007-11-29T17:30:00.001-08:00

This was an old abandoned truck that somebody tried to push over the bank.

Photography Portfolio 8

2007-11-27T12:33:00.001-08:00

For this assignment we were supposed to feature one color of our choosing.

When I get around to it--I am going to change this blog's appearance and us this picture as the banner.

Photography Portfolio 7

2007-11-26T15:29:00.001-08:00

The assignment here was "dreaming". I took this in front of the Oregon Convention Center. The sculpture is called "The Dream" and it was done in 1990 by Michael Florin Dente.

Photography Portfolio 6

2007-11-25T14:14:00.001-08:00

...so where the river flows everything will live. Ezekiel 47:9b (NIV)

This is the third in the series. I took it at Dugan Falls on the Washougal river. There was a fish jumping in the pool but I was never going to be able to predict/time it correctly to get the thing in the picture.

Photography Portfolio 5

2007-11-24T12:25:00.000-08:00

This is number #2 in the series.

It was taken here in Washougal. I was lucky to get it. I happened to have the camera with me in the truck while I was going someplace else.

Photography Portfolio 4

2007-11-23T13:03:00.000-08:00

This picture is #1 in a series of 3.

It was taken not to far from where we live. I set up a tripod along the highway before sunrise and took 1 picture every 10 seconds until the sun had fully come up.

Video of the Week 11/20

2007-11-22T10:01:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving!

Quote of the Week 11/22

2007-11-22T09:49:00.000-08:00

"Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles."

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)

Photography Portfolio 3

2007-11-22T09:34:00.000-08:00

The assignment here was to illustrate texture.

Photography Portfolio 2

2007-11-21T15:16:00.000-08:00

This was my first submission for my photography class. The assignment was eggs. It is inspired by the quote by C.S Lewis:

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it, hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”

Photography Portfolio 1

2007-11-20T16:03:00.001-08:00

One of the assignments for the term was take a picture that represented our "Concept of Photography".

I wanted to go with a retro feel. I took some pictures on our families annual trek to the pumpkin patch. In Photoshop I put boarders on the pictures to make them look like Polaroids and put them on a wood grained background.

Digital Photography

2007-11-20T15:52:00.000-08:00

I have been taking classes in order to finish my Industrial Water Treatment degree. One of those classes is digital photography. It has been a conundrum as to what digital photography has to do with water treatment but I have enjoyed the class.

I have been putting together my final portfolio and decided to post the pictures here... Enjoy.

Please feel free to leave feedback.

Quote of the Week 10/21

2007-10-20T18:57:00.000-07:00

God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.

John Newton (1725-1807)

Video of the Week 10/19

2007-10-19T13:35:00.000-07:00

Quote of the Week 10/15

2007-10-15T14:01:00.000-07:00

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."

James Dean (1931-1955)

Sunam is bride-to-be... aged 3

2007-10-13T08:07:00.000-07:00

Little Sunam is among the 16 per cent of Afghan children married before they reach 15.

Her dad Parvez promised Sunam to her seven-year-old cousin Nieem. It was a gift to the lad’s mum, Parvez’s sister, who wanted a daughter.(link)

At least she's 3. If she had been 2, THAT would be outrageous. ~Pat

Rocket-Powered 21-Foot-Long X-Wing Model Actually Flies

2007-10-13T07:49:00.000-07:00

Andy Woerner and his crazy rocketeer friends have built a 21-foot long X-Wing model that can actually fly. Yes, this is a real X-Wing powered by four solid-fuel rocket engines complete with radio-controlled moving wings. (read entire story)

...alas--sadness.

Progress...

2007-10-12T08:33:00.000-07:00

Underground Video Of Tyranny In China

What's That You Say?

2007-10-12T07:37:00.000-07:00

Artist implants 'third ear' on his own arm

Performance artists are known for pushing the bounderies, but one Australian has astonished his contemporaries by having a third ear implanted onto his arm.

The Cypriot-born eccentric Stelios Arcadious spent 10 years searching for a surgeon willing to perform the controversial operation.

He got his wish after working as a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University's Digital Research Unit. The ear was grown in a lab from cells and implanted into the 61-year-olds left forearm in 2006. (read entire story)

What more can I say than ...ick!

I am not sure what would posses a man to do this but I'm guessing it was to impress the ladies. It always comes back to impressing the ladies.

1. Buy a Camaro... No, not cool enough.
2. Grow a mullet... Ahh, that's the ticket. No wait...
3. Implant an ear in forearm. Welcome sweet, sweet lov'n!

Is it more than a coincidence that he looks eerily like Peter Boyle from Young Frankenstein?

Video of the Week 10/11

2007-10-11T09:16:00.001-07:00

Some things transcend spoken language. Enjoy...

Quote of the Week 10/2

2007-10-02T14:42:00.000-07:00

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference”

Rachel Carson (1907-1964)