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Our cats have so completely taken over my desk chair that they are collapsing into one another into a sort of feline snuggle singularity, an adorable two-headed mass of sleeping fur so dense that only cuteness can escape. This makes it somewhat difficult […]

A day of bush-pruning and art-show-wandering has left me in the mood to close some browser tabs and have a happy little link-o-rama for June. Joy!
First off, how about 101 versions of “Stairway to Heaven”? And if your ears aren’t bleeding too much from that, let’s chase that down with the best 50 […]

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Saw this at the grocery store today and had to document it for posterity: waffles you can connect like LEGO bricks! Truly, a concept both utterly brilliant and at the same time deeply frightening.
LEGO my Eggo!

Mood:amused
Music:Firefly soundtrack - “Cows/New Dress/My Crew”

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Finally got off my butt (and promptly back onto it) and built my LEGO AT-AT. That kind of says it all, I think.
There are a couple of other photos over at my Flickr account that give a better overall representation of the thing, […]

For ages, I have pooh-poohed Joss Whedon’s “Firefly”, thinking it a silly trifle of network TV, the kind of thing that can’t stand up to “real” sci-fi. “It’s no ‘B5′,” said I, despite how my coworkers tried to change my mind. Then the trailer for the movie arrived, and I started to wonder […]

The lovely folks at LEGO have brightened my day with what is a strong contender for Best Thing Ever: using their software, you can design and order custom LEGO models! The icing on the cake? There’s a Mac version as well as Windows. (Sorry, no Linux version, but two out of […]

Here’s how I spent (wasted?) the end of 2003.
I finally built my LEGO Star Destroyer. While listening to the BBC Lord of the Rings series.
It took the better part of two days.
The third day, December 31, last day of 2003, was spent producing this:

The Small Version [QuickTime, 04:02, 9.0MB]

The Large […]

I hate being materialistic…
But Lego makes it so damn easy!!
Behold, and weep for my hopelessly bourgeois soul.
Sigh.

Mood:quixotic
Music:John Williams - “The Battle of Hoth” (Caution–irony alert!)

It’s time for an update, since I haven’t posted in a few days. Let’s see…Had a nice little early birthday party thing on Saturday night. There were twelve of us once everyone arrived — Jim, gieves, Mandy, Don, Liz’s friend Talitha (or however she spells it), AG.com’s Julie (sort of like “TV’s Julie”, […]

Reasons to be happier than usual:

I had actual useful stuff to do today at work! And I might even have enough to keep me busy tomorrow too!
It got above freezing yesterday AND today, and tomorrow should be even warmer!
Today was SUNNY!!
My car is clean and beautiful again!
Had a wine tasting dinner last night at […]