Dec 07 2017
There are two versions of the Pumping Lemma. One is for context free grammars and one is for regular languages. This post is about the latter. The Pumping Lemma describes a property that all natural languages share. While it cannot be used by itself to prove that any given language is regular, it can be …
Dec 07 2017
I’ll be the first to admit that I am no military strategist, but if the First Order wants to have any shot of winning this thing, they really should arm their soldiers. Day 7 of the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar is a First Order Stormtrooper – a weaponless First Order Stormtrooper. I’ll let it …
Dec 06 2017
LEGO calls this a Stormtrooper Transport, which I guess it is, but since these weren’t around until The Force Awakens it is technically a First Order Transporter or Atmospheric Assault Lander if you’re nasty. I admit to finding this build challenging, even thinking at one point that all of the pieces weren’t included. I also …
Dec 05 2017
I have mixed feelings about today’s offering. It is a Resistance officer minifigure, and I generally like all minifigures. But it’s also about as generic as a minifigure can be. I don’t remember leaving the theater after The Force Awakens and talking with my daughter about how awesome the Resistance officers were. But then again he …
Dec 04 2017
Finally a build not from Rebels. Well, it’s not from Rebels per se because Day 4’s blaster cannon is generic enough that it could have been from any Star Wars movie or animated series. I remember seeing the the Snowtroopers lugging and setting up one of these when they assaulted the rebel base on Hoth, …
Dec 03 2017
I’m beginning to think that it might be Rebels all the way down. It’s day 4 of the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar, and we’ve got another spaceship from the animated series Rebels. Although it was eventually lost over the gas planet of Yarma, the modified VCX-series auxiliary starfighter known as the Phantom served Ezra Bridger …
Dec 02 2017
Am I sufficient? Am I even necessary? If you’re plagued by these existential questions and have ended up here in your quest for an answer, then I’ve got some bad news for you. The answer to both is no. I keed. I keed. Actually, the bad news is that this post is about necessity and …
Dec 02 2017
Day 2 of the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar is keeping it Rebels, and that is more than ok with me. Minifigures are my favorite, and Mandalorian warrior turned rebel Sabine Wren is a new one for my collection.
Dec 01 2017
Day 1 is finally here, and it was well worth the wait. The first build from the 2017 LEGO Star Wars Calendar is a mini version of The Ghost from the animated series Rebels. Piloted by Hera Syndulla, The Ghost has, in the three short years of the cartoon’s, run become as iconic as any …
Nov 30 2017
23 long days I’ve waited to open this box up, and in less than 20 hours I will find out what’s behind door # 1. For now my appetite has been whetted by the calendar’s backdrop: Starkiller Base hovering over a Jakku littered with Star Destroyers, AT-ATs, and Christmas trees. That’s not quite how I …
