Well here I am. 20 some years old, a comp sci major, and finally got around to blogging. Does that mean I am a blogger? Or simply that I get to make odd comments about life and then read about it once my short-term memory is purged and I forgot to load the STM into my long-term? Either way, I feel this is good idea to keep a running list of my activities.
I went to physics class yesterday and realized that I am clueless to electronics. I mean utterly clueless. I am amazed that I haven't electrocuted myself more times. Our prof showed us this diagram of a circuit, and we just kind of stared at it like it was Egyptian hieroglyphs. The greatest part about the whole thing was that our prof acted like we should know how to do this. I would draw an analogy to sitting a newb down with Textpad and asking her to write a for-loop in AOC assembler code - you need a semblance of verbal guidance. After I irritated the prof by asking questions like "What is a resistor?", he told to me to read the book "There are no electrons" by Kenn Amdahl. I was throughly ticked with the whole idea of learning about electricity and how a computer works at a logic gate level. I really don't think that circuit design is in my future. After sleeping on it, I decided that though it does not directly influence how I key in a J2EE app, it would be fairly interesting to apply myself and see what happens. I bought the book he mentioned, and it is turning into a light-hearted explanation of what until recently was a subject even more confusing then the English language rules. So far I have learned about voltage, and how the concept is like the Little Greenies urge to join the party of the Rock 'N' rolling female Little Greenies. You have got to love college-level reading. ~Peace
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