I hate deadlines. There's a conference that my adviser wants my lab group to go to in June. Understandable. What's not understandable is that the deadline for abstracts to present at said conference is tomorrow (it was originally Friday, but got bumped back over the weekend). This means, of course, that I have to have enough data to write an amazingly short paragraph about what I'd be presenting at the conference by tomorrow. At 5 p.m. Now, I'm not one for stress. As my brothers and roommate
So, as you all may have noticed, I have disappeared off the face of the Internet for a time. But now I'm back at my college (classes don't start until next week, so I'm mainly doing research), which means I'm back on the Interwebs! Christmas was very nice; I got Tabasco sauce from my mom, Virtue's Last Reward (beat it in a week...and didn't realize that there was nothing more to the game after the end was over. XD) and the LEGOLAND exclusive set Forbidden Island from KopakaKurahk (both aweso
Saturday: Received final. Four questions pulled from Jackson and Griffiths' textbooks. Finished one problem (the Griffiths one). Sunday: Finished two more problems. I am on fire! Worked on the fourth problem. Way uglier than the other three. Monday: Woke up at noon. Haven't continued working yet. Hungry. This has been a look into the life of a grad student during finals week! Tune in next time where we see whether said student has eaten in the last three days!
I made it in GIMP. A cardioid is the envelope formed by a set of circles whose centers lie on a circle and which pass through one common point in space. This image shows the circle on which the centers of the circles in the above image lie. A cardioid is also the path traced by a point on a circle which is rolling along the surface of another circle when both circles have the same radius (here is a cool animation of that). What is the cardioid's significance? Well, it looks like a heart, which
You look really cool, and I'm sure I'd enjoy your features and such, but you're $15. For a Pokédex. If you had 3D battling capabilities/games that would work in tandem with BW/B2W2, I'd probably get you, but you don't. Sorry.
SUCH A CATCHY SONG ZOMG!! Also, the CMC were very adorable in that episode. (I watched it the other day, but just listened to the song for about the fifth time.) EDIT: Also, apparently typing in darkgoldenrod as your font color doesn't work anymore.
If you're building something and want to tell other people how to build it, it's useful to show the dimensions of said something (how big it is) relative to other things that people are familiar with. However, there are very few things in this world that are exactly the same size as other similar things (e.g. not all apples weigh the same or have the same volume). So, some smart people once upon a time decided to make standards of measurement for various properties of matter (which I think we
I know most of you aren't physicists, but it's very important to me that physics education be designed to effectively teach physics to any and all audiences. After all, if you want people to have some inkling as to what you do, you want to be able to come up with a way to explain the necessities without getting bogged down in all the details. When you do this, it prevents the person you talk to from feeling like a moron and also allows you to talk about yourself and what you do to someone who
These villains are getting less and less backstory development as we go, huh? In terms of development: Sombra < Chrysalis < Discord / Nightmare Moon That said, though, I enjoyed the episode quite a bit. The songs were okay, but I've only listened to them once, really. However, it was nice for Spike to get a role as Twilight's supporting vocals. Cathy Weseluck amazes me. I did think Rainbow Dash was a bit over the top, but I enjoyed everyone else. También, sombra = shadow en
While I technically beat the Elite Four on Tuesday, I thought I'd share my team here. Anubis (Lucario) Tornadus-T Vanessa (Emboar) Zoroark Tesla (Magnezone) Golduck - HM slave I couldn't nickname Zoroark due to it being N's originally, and Tornadus I just never got around to nicknaming after I got him from Dream Radar. This was actually the first time I've ever raised any of these Pokémon for a team, so it was a very different game experience this time around. I wish Lucario were ju
(Click for larger image) The one on the left is my roommate's; the one on the right is mine. Happy Halloween, BZPower. (Also, check out my Haunted House review if you haven't already! It's full of awesome haunted house pictures!)
(12:43 p.m. EDT) So, Sandy is currently doing his/her (its?) stuff outside my apartment. LOTS O' RAIN! No snow or high force winds yet, though. I think that stuff is being saved for later. In other GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE, I'm technically still alive. UPDATE 2 (3:40 p.m. EDT): Winds have been picking up, rain is unrelenting, and my apartment is cold. This calls for hoodie & blanket times! 8D Wow, it's really raging out there... UPDATE 3 (10/30/2012 at 2:29 p.m.): Things have calme
So, school for me has been cancelled Monday and Tuesday due to some sort of sandy storm that is also full of winds and snow (and may or may not be caused by Spongebob's rodent friend). The details aren't really clear. So, after removing things from my porch and storing lots of water in my fridge (at least five gallons worth, maybe more), I feel I'm ready to bunker up and watch it from the comfort of my living room. My roommate is thinking of going into school to do research. I am not terrib
Just so everyone knows, I obtained the awesome LEGO Haunted House over Fall Break and have pictures that will work wonderfully in a review. You can probably expect that next week at some point (I hope). For now, let's go over another fun physics equation! This one is probably very familiar to you, though you may not have any idea what it means. I give you mass-energy equivalence: Where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light. It's a very simple-looking equation with only
I had a wonderful time today; I got to see old friends from my undergrad today and went exploring a corn maze; it was a lot of fun. Also, equation of the day: Newton's Second Law where F is the net force, a is acceleration, and m is the mass of the object in question. It's such a simple-looking equation, but it contains so much physics. Want to know the path of a free-falling object subject only to the force of gravity? You use this equation. Want to know the attractive force and c
