You did know I was a comic book/Lego geek, yes? ‘Cuz I would hate to have misrepresented myself. Custom Justice League & Harley Quinn Lego minifigs — click to enlarge So I may have mentioned a silly Lego minifig customization project a few posts ago. It started out with deciding that the current line of official Batman [...] » Read more

It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrrrr. That’s little enough excuse for today’s digression about Lego string, specifically: the thicker cord used to rig pirate ships, like the Black Seas Barracuda or the Skull’s Eye Schooner. Lego isn’t just about acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. There’s a few string and canvas elements, particularly in the Pirates line used [...] » Read more

Last week, Lego started selling their new Castle kits on their online store. Someone in Denmark must have missed the memo about Harry Potter being a bad influence on kids, because by golly they’ve one upped them. Instead of bandits or rogue knights as villians, they’ve gone for an Evil Dead theme this time around. [...] » Read more

I’m in the middle of seven days off work that I took after shipping beta. Not like I didn’t have enough to do around the house (carpentry and the like), but nonetheless in anticipation of some free time, a few weeks ago I ordered a FPGA board to play around with. Now my exposure to digital [...] » Read more

Just finished The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell – you may know her better as the voice of Violet in the Incredibles. It’s a good read. In her essay on Al Gore’s nerdiness, she references an anonymous commentator on slashdot. Furthermore, geeks tend to be focused on very narrow fields of [...] » Read more

A co-worker and I were discussing Lego, there being plenty of bricks of various colors and shapes scattered about within a few feet of where I sit at work. As such conversations do, it turned to custom Lego creations of the Star Wars variety, and then to B-wings. “What an odd ship. Was [...] » Read more

evil Skeletor extra degree of freedom? what a crappy toy [...] » Read more

There’s thunder and lightning outside at the moment, and I can’t watch TV – taping Black Adder for Mimi – so it’s back to updating. Spent some idle time last week building a juice can-powered trebuchet out of Lego bricks, of course, from the collection that I hauled back from Vancouver. The first prototype pictured [...] » Read more