My brother and his church just released a new CD and DVD. It's great! You can check out some information on his news blurbs page and some song and video clips on his music page.
On a technical note, I did all the clip editing and encoding using Linux. Yup, even the Real Media clips. Real has an encoder for Linux.
I wrote a paper for my algorithms class summarizing the 3 key techniques for converting deterministic finite automata to regular expressions. I spent quite a bit of time in the last couple of weeks wrapping my head around this problem. If you are interested in reading my paper, maybe you can benefit from what I learned. In particular, you may find the Brzozowski method interesting. Of course, if you are like me, you find great entertainment in just trying to pronouce Brzozowski. My only dissappointment is that I never got a chance to present my paper and say Brzozowski a bunch of times.
You can find the paper here.
At 8:35 this morning I walked out of Owen hall, having just taken my graph theory final, thus marking the conclusion of this term. And, oh boy, it was just in time! The last weeks have been a blur of grading, writing, programming, and studying. I have gone from being sick to being sick and tired to being sicker and more tired to simply being sick. And now, with some rest, I can put it all behind me.
So here's to the end of the quarter.
Here's to spring break.
Here's to a new beginning.
'Cause I've had all I can take.
Lisa was watching Emily when Lisa noticed Emily was playing with something on the floor. Lisa stopped reading and went over to investigate when Emily said "go read a book."
Peering inside Emily's brain we see: I know what reading a book is. Mommy was just reading a book. Ergo, Mommy should go back to reading a book instead of bothering me.
It's amazing what can go through the head of an almost-2-year-old, and it's amazing how conscious she is of what we do (see previous post too).
While Emily was watching Sesame Street today, she saw Ernie singing a wake up song to Bert but Bert didn't want to wake up. She kept pointing to Bert and saying "Daddy". Am I really that tired in the morning? I guess so. :-)
Yeah, I know I haven't posted for a while. This quarter at school is wrapping up, so things have been insane. Why does it always seem like everything happens at the same time? With only three important things remaining before the end of the term, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope isn't not a train. ;-)
On another note, I was wating outside of Dr. Quinn's office (he is my graph theory professor) to talk to him about the homework due tomorrow. Two other students were also waiting outside. I asked them if they were in Graph Theory. (I sit near the front. I don't see many other people.) They reacted with an emphatic "no way." They asked, "Isn't that class really hard?" I said that I have been enjoying the class and thought it to be one of the most fun and straightforward classes I have had taken thus far in grad school. They said, "oh, you're a grad student" and just looked at me like I was crazy. At that moment I realized my transformation is complete. I am truly a grad student now.