http://erinkelley.net/journal Erin Kelley's journal Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:00:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/02/07/helicopter-in-lego-duplos/ http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/02/07/helicopter-in-lego-duplos/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:30:53 +0000 Erin http://erinkelley.net/journal/?p=3245 I remember this one being particular fun for Lana because of the spinning rotor on top – placing the block on top gave a handle for spinning the blades. Several different Lego Duplo sets have some kind of spinning piece which could work for this, I think this one used here (a red square) came [...]]]> http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/02/07/helicopter-in-lego-duplos/feed/ 0 http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/02/01/hearts-in-lego-duplos/ http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/02/01/hearts-in-lego-duplos/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:00:01 +0000 Erin http://erinkelley.net/journal/?p=3166 Maybe you want to give your love a unique valentine, or maybe you just need to pump a lot of blood out of your basement* – hey, I won’t judge. Whatever the reason, you’ve decided a Lego Duplo heart is for you. However, you can’t quite figure how to massage those chunky bricks into a [...]]]> http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/02/01/hearts-in-lego-duplos/feed/ 0 http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/01/23/spaceships-in-lego-duplos/ http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/01/23/spaceships-in-lego-duplos/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:00:52 +0000 Erin http://erinkelley.net/journal/?p=3111 Yes, we’ve built many Duplo spaceships. Some of them were specifically based on ships in particular shows, but they’re not faithful replicas or anything. You can see where the concept came from, or where it was going, but that’s pretty much the extent of the faithfulness.  They were all fun to play with, though, which [...]]]> http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/01/23/spaceships-in-lego-duplos/feed/ 0 http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/01/21/wild-wool/ http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/01/21/wild-wool/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:00:04 +0000 Erin http://erinkelley.net/journal/?p=3097 I really wanted to try out one of the Lego Games. While several of the more complicated ones looked like great fun, with a toddler I suspected they wouldn’t get much play.  So after carefully looking through the possibilities, we wound up with one called “Wild Wool.” Sean and I put together the pieces, and [...]]]> http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/01/21/wild-wool/feed/ 0 http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/01/18/the-day-the-lolcats-died/ http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/01/18/the-day-the-lolcats-died/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:00:32 +0000 Erin http://erinkelley.net/journal/?p=3088 Stop piracy without stifling creativity, without limiting utility, without forbidding parody and other lawful uses of other people’s intellectual property, and without pushing the onus of enforcement onto service providers. Drafting that law will take time and a significant understanding of the Internet.  Don’t rush that or we’ll be losing so much more than most [...]]]> http://erinkelley.net/journal/2012/01/18/the-day-the-lolcats-died/feed/ 0