Digital circuits

So I am sitting in my digital class writing this blog because there is nothing else to do. My lab partner and I have already completed our 3rd lab and just waiting for others to finish. This particular lab was my favorite so far. We got to build a circuit that decodes the binary code and displays the decimal for that code on a seven segment display. For those who don't know what that is, it is a display like a calculator would show there are seven segments and it can be used to count from 0 to 9. It was cool once we got it to work and was able to observe how circuits decode binary. Which for me is pretty awesome, never knew how things actually worked when it came to computers and cell phones but I am definitely getting a better understanding on it all now and by the end of the semester I hope to know a whole lot more. I was overwhelmed at the beginning of the semester but things have slowed down and I am finally getting a grip on all this stuff, so it turns out I am beginning to like this class for now.

10 min writing How I Met Your Mother

I have recently just started watching the series on net flix. I really enjoy it, I am only on season 2 so i was not sure about wanting to watch it in class and take a chance of something getting spoiled. I like the series so far the characters are fun to watch and work well together. The episodes always have a good main story line. This episode was just as funny as the rest that i have seen so far. The story in this particular episode was about the three guys Ted, Barney and Marshal always would meet and see if they were in where they thought they would be in three years. It just so happens that you can plan life all you want but life is full of curve balls. The guys found that out. They were never where they had planned. You can plan your life how ever you want and sometimes things work out the way that you had planned and sometimes life has a different path but that is okay because things always seem to work out in the end. Just like in the episode things never seemed to go as planned but they were still happy with where they were. The characters work well together and seem to bring a common ground to us all everyone can relate to one of the characters in some way. Making the show easy to watch and relate to.

10 min writing Once Upon A Time body #2

The costumes or attire the characters wore fit the era in which they were in at the time. They were some what typical of your every day fairy tale. The men wore leather and the women wore dresses telling you weather they were good or bad. snow white wearing the white dress and the evil queen obviously wearing black giving you the since of good vs evil. Then they flipped back to reality and the costumes took a more up to date look with the evil queen in a more modern black suit and White in a off white leather coat. while prince charming took on the more rugged look with jeans and a carhart jacket. While the costumes fit the time so did the props used through out, they looked realistic, so no floppy swords in this fairy tale. There was a part in which a gun was used after flipping back to reality in which was a little off key but did bring a laugh. The one thing that stood out as cheesy was the computer animation but it was not that bad for a TV series, it's not like it's a million dollar movie with the top of the line animation. 

RR #4

Scott's essay was a little hard to under stand for me. He used some pretty big words, feels like not just anyone could just sit down, read it and understand it all. He also casts a lot of judgment but he has the evidence to back it. I feel though as if he just put his own personal opinion in, and just told us how he did not like the film compared to the other James Bond films. He how ever did have some good key features he talks about how the title ties in with the film and he talks about the opening song and how well it fit. He does a good job of comparing it to the other films building that common ground because the Bonds films have been around for so long, that most people have seen at least one of the films. He explains how the story behind Bond has been changing throughout the last few movies starting with Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. How ever I did notice that some what throughout the essay and at the end especially Scott started using "I" a lot, making it seem like he was just giving his own opinion and not an all around unbiased review.

10min writing

The hall the was silent until she heard the sound of the bell ring throughout the halls. It was the final bell of her last day of high school. The halls filled with students running and screaming in joy. It was finally summer again. As the halls filled, all she could think about is what college she was going to attend the following fall. It had been a very hard decision thus far. She had been accepted to two of the main schools she had picked. So she felt like there was no time for fun and games like everyone else. She had the biggest desertion to make over the next month. She had been thinking about it ever since she received the letters of acceptance. For her the summer was going to be the beginning of her new life. Either way she was going to one of the schools and both were top ranked and gave a lot of opportunities to join clubs and make life long connections. The only thing that stood in her way was the tuition which was not cheap with either choice. She had been doing her research on both, Her first choice did not really offer any kind of scholarships or student funding, on the other hand her second choice would pretty much pay her way. So in the end the choice was simple.

RR #3 "Juno"

After reading Ali Heinekamp's, evaluation on the movie Juno, I felt as if she had maybe said to much and gave a good portion of the movie away. She did how ever give good descriptions and good plots on the movie. I have also watched Juno. Ali did well by not being taking either side. She went on to say how the characters spoke in a non realistic dialogue, and that the movie never really hit on some of the realistic parts of a teen pregnancy like "mood swings and morning sickness" She stood with both sides never ranting or raving really about the whole film. She also talks about the good parts of the film like Juno showing her vulnerability and that making people feel that connection. And I like how she quoted to reviews at the end that were going in different directions on how they portrayed the film. My overall thought is that it was a very good evaluation of the film, but I still think that Ali may have given away a few bigger and important scenes possibly letting people picture to much of the movie, or that could just be the way I see it since I have already seen the film and being able to put it all together.

EET 1330

Last Thursday was probably the most fun I have ever had in my digital circuits class. I made a counter on my breadboard. It is for our third lab. So cool we used 11 resistors all together, a 7447 counter, a seven segment display, four LED's  and a lot of jumper wires. After hooking up everything as i saw it in the book, I encountered that it was not counting as it should so I kept playing with it, at first I thought it was because we didn't use a dip switch, we didn't use one because our instructor told us not to. So after a little trouble shooting I noticed that the LED's were lighting up but nothing was reading on the seven segment display. So I either had a bad display or something wired wrong. I pretty much ruled out the bad display seeings how I could have definitely wired it wrong, and I did. I had a power supply going to the led and counter but no power going to display. I grabbed a couple more power and ground wires and hooked up the VCC going into the display. Bingo it was working it was cool to watch it. As i flipped certain switches it would put out the decimal form of the binary code it counted 1-9. I was happy to see I could make something like that and get to watch it work. Best class thus far.