>> << Normal - Togekiss Fighting - Lucario Water - Milotic Grass - Breloom Fire - Chandelure/Volcarona Electric - Rotom Poison - Haunter Ghost - Shedinja Psychic - Lugia Bug - Galvantula Flying - Zapdos Dragon - Zekrom Rock - Tyranitar Ground - Steelix Ice - Lapras Steel - Magnezone Dark - Zoroark Gen I: 3 Gen II: 3 Gen III: 3 Gen IV: 4 Gen V: 4/5 (if you count both Chandelure and Volcarona) I couldn't decide between Chandelure and Volcarona, because they be beastly.
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
So, this past week was my Fall Break, which allowed me to enjoy the comforts of home and gave me the opportunity to say hello to people who are still at my undergrad. I also received and played intensely Pokémon White 2, hence my lack of blog posts. I just beat the 8th Gym today (Marlon is weird...) and now have to prepare lecture for Wednesday. :\
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
So, I've decided to do one of those daily-like blog entries, though I can't guarantee that I'll be able to do this every day (being a busy grad student and all). I figured that, being a physics grad student, math might be one of my stronger suits (next to reviewing LEGO sets), so I'm going to try and share an equation with you and see if I can explain it well enough for people to understand. 8D Tonight's equation: The wave equation. This says that the sum of the change in the change
I went for a couple walks yesterday and today, and everything feels perfect. The air is crisp, the hoodie/jeans combo is perfectly comfortable, and the smell of fallen leaves permeates everywhere. Now if only all the trees decided to finally change color to match the rest of the mood.
Or, so some of my students in my Intro Physics lab think. Hopefully when you read the title you were ready to get your typing fingers ready to disprove me. You probably would have made an argument akin to the following mini-lecture. Gravity is a force between objects/particles proportional to the objects' mass. Newton's universal gravitation looks like this: Fg = - G m1m2/r2 where G is a proportionality constant, the m's are the masses of the two objects in question, and r is the d
And it was glorious. I was going to work on my E&M homework, but my body decided to rob me of all focus and initiative. I then ended up in my bed and slept for about three and half hours with no homework progress. Hooray? Also, I've realized that I haven't finished my Time Cruisers/Twisters reviews, and I kind of want to retake the pictures for them (I have the pictures on my computer of when I first built them and planned to review them, but they're sub par...). Then I'd like to do so
Hey, guys! Come over here and see the new comic this random yellow guy just posted! It's sure to make you LOL (or at least facepalm). Also, my Halloween Accessory Set review is feeling rather unloved. Pay it a visit, won't you?
Just posted a review of the new Halloween-themed Minifigure 3-pack, so go check it out! Also, a lot of "Ask X" blog posts have been surfacing. Do I hop on the bandwagon and start my own? Hmm...
Science is awesome. I am currently reading a journal article about how people are making the acoustic version of iridescence. For those who don't know, iridescence is what certain insects, jewels, soap bubbles, and CDs exhibit as that rainbow effect that changes color depending on what angle it's viewed. The sonic or acoustic version of this is creating something that varies in pitch depending on the angle at which you stand relative to it. Awesome.
Yes, you read that right. So, today our physics department had our Journal Club, where one of the professors/grad students get to share a journal article or two that they found in the vast amount of physics literature available to academia. Today our resident dark matter-seeking professor gave the talk, and boy was it awesome. The researchers whose papers he found were bouncing neutrons on glass and looking at their quantum states due solely to the potential energy caused by gravity. Quant
Today I went to my local LEGO Store to plunder some Series 8 Minifigures. I reviewed the 8 Series 8 minifigs (clever, ain't I?) over here, so check it out for pics and entertaining descriptions. I posted a teaser below: Also, while at the LEGO Store, I noticed some new sets. Remember the recent beach set that contained the Hula Girl, Surfer, and Surfer Girl from the Series Minifigures? Well, two new similar sets are now in the LEGO store, and I snapped a quick pic of them. Click for
So, today was the first official day of school at my grad school, but I didn't have any classes. Today was lab orientation for Monday and Tuesday lab sections (since we had yesterday off). Having nearly 50 students crammed into a room only able to seat 32 is rather entertaining. Also, I have a talk to give on Friday on my research I did over the summer. This wouldn't be so much of an issue if I knew which part of the research to discuss, as I worked with two undergrads, and we have to split
