Lab / due dates / grades

Right! My being out of town for nearly a week means I am behind on this thing, and a few updates are in order. They get less urgent as you go down the list, precipitously.

Item the First: we have a shiny new lab for Wednesday, which is all about induction. Basically, we are making a transformer, though the lab doesn't just come right out and say that.[1]

Item the Second: your next exam is not, in fact, this Friday (Halloween). It has been moved one week forward, to Friday, 7 November 2008, during the recitation period. It will be entirely problem-based, and not cruel. It will go something like this: I give you 6 problems, and you pick any 3 of them to solve. The values of "3" and "6" are subject to change as the exam approaches.

Item the Third: your current homework set is due on Wednesday (formerly, this past Friday). Don't get so excited about the extension that you forget to do it ;-) Of course, since we did the remaining problems in class today, this is not so much a problem I suppose.

Item the Fourth: by Wednesday's class period (probably by Tuesday evening) your up-to-date grades will be posted on Moodle. Just in time for Drop Date, on Wednesday. If you think you are in some danger, come see me and we can discuss things.

Item the Fifth: before your exam comes, I will have the missing homework solutions online. I have actually solved all the problems, it is the typesetting that I am a bit behind on ...

Finally: for some reason, I am listening to The Cure as I type this. Did it just become 1992 again? Is this savage time warp localized to my particular living room, or is it widespread? Check your wardrobes carefully before going out ... this could get serious. [2]
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[1] Parenthetically, we are usually doing something much more clever than it looks like at first sight ... this is one case where I think utility of what we are doing will be more apparent however. This is more due to the writeups not being all that clever sometimes, less than it is because you are missing something. Given more time, we should really go back after each lab and make sure why we were doing it was clear.
[2] This is mainly here just to see if you read the whole thing.