Archive for the Education Tag

Rainy afternoon Robotics, or the “Frankentruck FT-5”

So, the day turned rainy and there is a somewhat rigorous moratorium here on desktop computing.  I decided that didn’t include supervised robotics.  Full details, more pics and movie mayhem after the break.

Regex for Java in Unicode…

Think The Producers‘ “Springtime…  in Germany” when reading the title, it might make slightly more sense… A friend of mine was recently posed a challenge by hir instructor in an introductory Java class.  The challenge was (sic.) “I was recently writing a program to generate usernames from the first seven letters of a student’s last name and their first initial,
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Ert Þu að læra ͍slensku?

🙂 That’s Icelandic / Old Norse for “Are you learning Icelandic?” If you really want to know more… you can learn Icelandic for free (registration required) online courtesy of University of Iceland.

Finally beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel…

In between my school paper and clean-up from the painting and bookcase project, I managed to get my bookcases and storage shelves loaded. You can almost see the dining room table now (not pictured) and I only have a few more boxes to go through, two of which are destined for the filing cabinets. It’s beginning to feel “done,” even
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Rinky Dink Online Schools?

I’ve heard a lot of criticism of online universities. I’m sure the rinky dink outfits exist, but University of Phoenix Online is not one of them. I’m taking one 3 credit hour class and putting in about 14 hours a week. I’m getting 0wned, here. I’m doing well, but its taking a lot of effort, at least 33% more than
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I’ve got class

Carly is sending me back to school. It looks like I’ll be getting a BS in Business/Information Systems from University of Phoenix sometime in 2008. The timing will depend a lot on how much credit I can transfer in. I’m looking forward to it. I’m not sure that I wouldn’t get more out of a degree in Astronomy, but HP
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