{"id":27,"date":"2005-11-30T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/ohhh\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:49","slug":"ohhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/ohhh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohhh&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not every day I screw up as badly as I did last night.  That problem I was working on?  Definitely didn&#8217;t read the statement closely enough.  My 10 equations would have been great, except that at least 3 were based on a component of the circuit that I was supposed to remove, per the problem. That kind of thing makes me feel <strong>really stupid<\/strong>, especially given how much sleep I lost over it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On a better note, here&#8217;s a humorous quote from my ECE 230 prof. just now, as he introduced reactive power (aka imaginary power):<br \/>\n&#8220;With all the government regulation of power recently, more and more economists are getting involved in power systems.  The problem is, economists don&#8217;t understand why they should have to pay for &#8220;imaginary&#8221; power.  If we call it reactive power, they don&#8217;t know what it is, so they&#8217;re willing to pay something for it.  Economists aren&#8217;t real good with complex numbers&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  This is the 4th time I&#8217;ve edited this message to try to get it formatted decently.  Lessons learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogger.com sucks at HTML.  Use real tags, less &lt;span&gt;ing just to make things bold.\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use mail2web.com to send a post to Blogger via email.  It adds advertising.\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t try to do anything on a PocketPC.  Are you listening Microsoft? Internet Explorer 4.01 should have died <em>years<\/em> ago.  It should not ship with Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not every day I screw up as badly as I did last night. That problem I was working on? Definitely didn&#8217;t read the statement closely enough. My 10 equations would have been great, except that at least 3 were based on a component of the circuit that I was supposed to remove, per the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}