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Long Love Affair with Lego

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

In Toy Stor­ies, James May­built a life-size house out of Lego. It was awe­some. On the DVD of the TV series, he skulks around the base­ment stor­age of Lego HQ where there is a box set of every box set Lego has ever made. He pops open 1973 and shows this Lon­don Bus set, which […]

LEGO +Mobile Phone Mashup">LEGO +Mobile Phone Mashup

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/02/i-for-one-welco.html I have some­thing to do! A remote con­trolled cat-chasing LEGO bot!

I just missed out on Halo 3: 7 days in Seattle.

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Run­down of a week in Seattle, and sadly a week too soon. Halo 3 ships this week world-wide, and I missed it. How­ever did buy some Halo 3 T-Shirts for the fam­ily. Meet­ing up with my fel­low Enthu­si­ast Evan­gel­ists, prod­ding VP’s and see­ing all sorts of cool things almost made up for the lack of Halo […]

Ferrari Enzo

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I’ve had a long, long love with Lego. As a Geek, this love is not unique. Thank­fully, most of my Lego sur­vived my child­hood and I passed the thou­sands of well-worn, well-loved bricks to Liam. Each brick had a second life with Liam as he build planes, trains and more planes. In a rush of […]

Origins of Mindstorms

Friday, March 30th, 2007

I’ve learnt some­thing today: thanks to the new Geek­Dad blog. The ori­gin of the phrase “Mindstorms”

The Lego Nano-factory Singularity

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Leg­o­mind­storm­sauto­fab­rik I won­der how far we are away from a von Neu­mann Uni­ver­sal Constructor?

Lego

Wednesday, December 18th, 2002

This is prob­ably indi­cit­ive of my Christ­mas plans, but I have always been a major fan of Lego. Today I found a list of build­ing block toys on the web. My post­ings of late have noth­ing to do with Adobe at all. Sorry.

Me as a Minifig

Saturday, November 30th, 2002