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I am a writer, developer, futurist, and one-half of the Knotty Geeks podcast.
Interests: Astronomy, newLISP, Science Fiction.
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Lego Space Ships
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| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Thu Sep 29 10:22:56 2011 | |
 Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 |  I was Googling around the other day and came across this site: http://www.brickset.com/browse/themes/?theme=Space Suddenly I was transported back into my childhood. My parents bought me all sorts of Lego Space sets including the Command Center, one and two-seat Space Scooter, and the holy trinity of awesome space ships: The One-Man Space Ship (shown above), the Transporter, and the awesome Galaxy Explorer. Looking at these classic Lego Space Ships filled me with overwhelming nostalgia. It made me remember how amazing my parents were to me, which made me happy (for the memories) and sad (for their passing) at the same time. For a few moments it was hard for me to breathe. My heart was beating uncontrollably. I still have all the pieces for all these sets, stored away safely in clear plastic bins. Maybe I’ll build one again. | |
| AllYorBaseRBelong2Us | Posted on: Tue Oct 25 00:41:37 2011 | |
 Joined: Sun Dec 5 06:23:12 2010 | AYB fondly remembers Legos. He used to play with them *all* the time when he was younger... ...then last week AYB’s wife told him she was tired of stepping on them constantly, so she made him put them away  | |
| AllYorBaseRBelong2Us | Posted on: Tue Oct 25 00:45:29 2011 | |
Joined: Sun Dec 5 06:23:12 2010 | "Maybe I’ll build one again. " You should. One thing cool AYB has found about being older is there is far less prejudice against engaging in childhood persuits than when we were actually children. | |
| AllYorBaseRBelong2Us | Posted on: Tue Oct 25 00:52:03 2011 | |
Joined: Sun Dec 5 06:23:12 2010 | Here’s one AYB had: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6940-1 Good to see it was considered a good set. had lots of fun with that 
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| Ajar | Posted on: Mon Nov 7 16:13:46 2011 | |
 Joined: Tue Dec 14 17:53:33 2010 | I made so many cool spaceships out of this bad boy: Edit: Screw it, I’m too drnka to make the HTML parse right. But here’s a link. http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/5466/iceplanetvn8.jpg | |
| OscarWilde | Posted on: Sun Nov 13 04:48:17 2011 | |
 Joined: Wed Jan 5 12:25:56 2011 | I never understood legos as a kid. I’d build things, but then get frustrated afterwards at the little I could do with it. I had more fun taking the monopoly car and pretending I was driving around different locations on different maps in the atlas. And the thing is, I actually do like building things with my hands. | |
| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Mon Nov 14 14:50:30 2011 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | I had a friend who was similarly frustrated by Lego. He didn’t like that you couldn’t do ANYTHING you wanted with it (ie; you didn’t have infinite granularity on the pieces) For me, that was half of the fun, figuring out how to work around the limitations of the medium. You only had so many pieces and they were of limited type, so, given those constraints, what cool things can you make? Turns out it was a LOT of cool things. Mostly I made space ships though. I often wonder if the "infinite possibilities despite strange limiting constraints" mind-set draws a lot of people to programming. You have all these weirdly-shaped pieces and with them you can make anything you want. | |
| Harby | Posted on: Thu Dec 22 16:49:43 2011 | |
 Joined: Mon Nov 29 16:45:16 2010 | Yes. | |
| AllYorBaseRBelong2Us | Posted on: Fri Feb 24 04:45:23 2012 | |
Joined: Sun Dec 5 06:23:12 2010 | AYB is now infatuated with GI Joe of all things. This is something he hadn’t given a second thought to since 1988, but now he just dropped about $300 on it.... Too bad it’s not StarWars. Tons of #@#$% on clearance for starwars collecters/army builders. You can’t find @#$%@#$% for Joe, however.. | |
