In a city of 5+ million people it can be surprisingly hard to meet new friends. Fortunately we live in the future and there are helpful social tools on the web . Meetup.com has been useful to me in the past for professional networking. Perhaps it could help me meet some new folks that are [...]
While poking around on RailBricks I came across a treasure trove of LDraw files for LEGO roads. LDraw is an open format for LEGO Computer Aided Design (CAD) software useful for designing and rendering models. This work is a superb example of on the Studs Not On Top (SNOT) building technique. It includes files all [...]
Lately I rediscovered my love of LEGO and turned it into my hobby. Everyone needs a hobby and, while somewhat expensive, LEGO is as good as any. It seems to stimulate the same part of my brain as coding. My first project was a new Christmas train to ring the Christmas tree in the living [...]
Though LEGOs are cool as heck the unfortunately reality is that they are a mess. This issue has become acute the past few weeks while balancing the frustration of mess and disorganization while trying to build stuff. More time can be spent digging through LEGOs as actually building cool stuff with them. Fortunately I found [...]
A couple months ago I was stressed out and needed a hobby. It occurred to me that downstairs, in my garage, was a gigantic tub of Legos. It was a big tub and one night, while my friend Pete was over playing video games, we went downstairs and dragged the tub upstairs. This box was [...]
