Happy Easter / Birthday

This past weekend was my daughter's 4th birthday. My wife and I took her to see the Wiggles in concert at the Rose Garden in Portland. For those who have never heard of them, you can find info about them by googling "Wiggles." Anyway, they are middle-aged men from Australia with backgrounds in music and degrees in Early Childhood Education / Development. They are very entertaining, and I have never seen a bigger smile on my daughter's face. There was a lot of singing and dancing, and a couple of the guys came out into the crowd, walking inches from us. Their songs are very catchy, the characters are very colorful and entertaining, and the whole show was educational. If you have younger children you, should really check them out. They even have a show on the Disney Channel, as well as plenty of DVD's and CD's. The weekend ended with my daughter saying, "This is a great birthday!"

School is going okay. I am keeping busy with homework, labs, recitation assignments, and some studying. Computer programming is probably the most time- and thought-intensive class I have. That's not to say the others are any easier...just less intense.

It is getting late and I really should get some sleep so I am awake for my recitations and labs. Have a wonderful weekend...I'm sure I will.

School's back in full-swing

Someone's been having too much fun creating these. I am now in my second week of Spring term. I had to enroll in a physics recitation which was not attached to my class, so I am now taking 17 credits this term. If I survive, I'll be happy. Right now in Java II we are programming an applet that could be used to order pizza on the web by checking boxes next to toppings and having your total computed instantly. In Digital Logic Design, we are doing mathematical operations in binary, octal, and hexadecimal systems as well as analyzing logic circuits. In Physics, we are still going over vectors and starting to get into kinematics. In Vector Calculus II, we have finished reviewing vectors and are now reviewing polar, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates. Our homework for this week was to solve a differential equation:

We were given a circuit with two resistors( 3 ohms and 5 ohms) and a current of 2 amps. We were told that the 3 ohm resistor increases by .5 ohms per second and the 5 ohm resistor decreases by .1 ohms per second, and the current increases by .01 amps per second. We needed to find the rate at which the voltage is changing (which I solved to be .381 volts per second.

Well, I think I am going to nap for awhile looking of my Java assignment and ECE lab for tomorrow.