Archive for the ‘geekery’ Category
Hearts in Lego Duplos
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 [...]
Spaceships in Lego Duplos
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 [...]
Wild Wool
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 [...]
The Day The LOLCats Died
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 [...]
Birds in Lego Duplos
One of the things we often make out of Duplos are birds. We’ve made everything from penguins to chocobos, with varying levels of stability. My duck on legs from Kid K’Nex pieces was less stable than some. Since you can’t get the same level of precision in Duplos as you can with standard Legos, birds [...]
