LEGO My House!

Posted on June 14, 2013 by wellsdc

Hypothetical LEGO structures are much more fun for me now, as a grownup, than actual LEGOs. I learned this at LEGOLAND in San Diego a few years ago, as I stood impassively, or at least unimaginatively, in front of a quantity of LEGOs that, had I been 8-9 years old, might have inspired the early onset of puberty. (Don’t get me wrong: LEGOLAND was all kinds of awesome, but it just didn’t inspire youthful creativity in me the way it might have in the ’80s.)

LEGO technology has advanced considerably since the pinnacle of my LEGO constructions, which was around 1985-86. Back then, if you wanted a horse, you built a damn horse out of bricks. If you wanted a cave troll, you sure as shit didn’t have this:

Anyway, in the realm of hypothetical LEGO models, I can’t think of anything cooler than my own house, built entirely out of LEGO bricks.

Okay, that’s not true. A full-scale LEGO model of the Star Destroyer Executor would be much, much cooler than my house.

Kraken optional (Ochre Jelly [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], on Flickr)

As it currently stands, though, I’m stuck with the hypothetical model of my house.

Lego My House by Movoto

I don’t have access to 11,647,240 LEGO pieces, nor to the roughly $1,164,724 I’d need to procure that many pieces. I’m definitely never getting that Star Destroyer, alas.

Photo credit: Cave troll © LEGO, via amazon.com; Release the KR-KN! by Ochre Jelly [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], on Flickr.

Monday Morning Cute: I sense much fear in you…….

Posted on December 10, 2012 by wellsdc

His kittychlorian count must be off the scales!

(h/t Coco Puffin, in whom the Force is strong.)

The Robot Apocalypse begins here

Posted on July 14, 2012 by wellsdc

This may be the coolest thing I have ever seen:

According to Ray Walters at Geek.com:

Morphex was created by Norwegian Engineer Kare Halvorsen who has a passion for creating hexapod robots in his spare time.

Probably one of his more impressive pieces of work, he has recently updated Morphex to not only have the ability to transform from a ball to a robot, but also to be able to roll about while in sphere form as illustrated in the video above.

To create the aforementioned locomotion, the six-legged robot uses the motors on one side of its body to push itself along while contracted into a ball. The result, while not optimal, is a method of travel that moves Morphex in an arc rather than a straight line. Because of the asymmetric design that results from the hexapod moving itself across the floor, it’s impossible right now to straighten itself out. Still though, this is a pretty impressive upgrade that Halvorsen has incorporated.

That’s pretty damn amazing, but something about this is troubling me….

Yup, that’s it.

Monday morning geek-out

Posted on September 8, 2008 by wellsdc

Star Wars and cockatiels (h/t io9):

Never get into life-threatening danger in front of a geek

Posted on July 9, 2008 by wellsdc

Especially a Star Wars geek:

Up yours, George Lucas

Posted on May 27, 2007 by wellsdc

Thanks to Atrios for reminding us that this exists: The Star Wars Holiday Special.

I was four years old when it aired for the first and only time ever, and for the longest time I couldn’t quite remember if I imagined the whole thing after drinking some bad juice as a child.

Then I found it on ebay (VHS, of course). It took about six non-consecutive days to watch the whole thing, because I could only handle 20 minutes at a time. I urge you strongly to watch the five-minute clip linked above–it pretty much shows you everything you need to see, and you HAVE to stick it out to the end, when Carrie Fisher sings.

George Lucas supposedly hoped that this never see the light of day after its one airing. While it has its fans, I must say that is one decision by George Lucas I wholeheartedly support, at least in principle.

On the plus side, the special gave us Boba Fett for the first time.

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