Two amusing LEGO stories to start your weekend

[Deviant Ollam]

Classics Photographs done in Lego - an artist has re-created nineteen famous photos in LEGO and done a very nice job of rendering them in period style using modern photo equipment. Examples...

Artist Repairs Walls In Italy With Lego Bricks - as a public art project (part of a larger happening) an Italian fellow plugged up some holes in decaying public relic structures using LEGO blocks...

I have so many fond memories of LEGOs when i was a child. Damn, they rule.

K, we're off to ShakaCon for the week. Here's to one long-ass flight out over the Pacific. (Then again, as some other folk have said... after that trips to the far reaches of southeast asia, just about anything on a plane doesn't seem so bad)

[TheCotMan]

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I have so many fond memories of LEGOs when i was a child. Damn, the rule.

LEGOs provide great things for kids: (none of these ideas listed are new or first suggested by me about LEGOs. Other people have suggested these before me.)
* The advantage of modular design
* The advantage of very small, specialized parts, which individually are inconsequential, but when combined together, provide something greater that the sum of its parts
* Recycling
* Fast Prototyping
* Fast development cycles and re-versioning
* Engineering (durability of structures and design) (Build a car and smash it against a wall, or against other people's cars to see which one lasts the longest)
* Gears and Electric motors help to show gear ratio, power vs. speed, friction on moving parts, critical failure, and more

Yes. LEGOs are awesome. What is this, "rule," of which you type? Something about them only being for kids? I thought many hackers don't really care much about such social norms. ;-)

Of course, this might explain why the exceptions (people that do care about social norms) have chosen to fork child processes.

[Deviant Ollam]

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What is this, "rule," of which you type?

hah. nice.

i always comment on people's grammar and typos in that fashion. my biggest criticism happens with "your" vs. "you're"

someone will say "that's why your awesome"

and i'll reply "what about my awesome? have you seen it?"

[TheCotMan]

Re: Two amusing LEGO stories to start your weekend

hah. nice.

i always comment on people's grammar and typos in that fashion. my biggest criticism happens with "your" vs. "you're"

someone will say "that's why your awesome"

and i'll reply "what about my awesome? have you seen it?"

Crap. Did I make a mistake again?

Also, I forgot to mention that the LEGO images were pretty cool.

Now that we are on this subject, when did you give up playing with LEGOs? Want me to add a poll?

[Edit: Addition below here:]
Ah! I see your edit. I wasn't making fun of any grammatical error or typing mistake. I thought when you mentioned, "the rule," that you were typing about some rule about them being only for kids.

[barry99705]

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Crap. Did I make a mistake again?

Also, I forgot to mention that the LEGO images were pretty cool.

Now that we are on this subject, when did you give up playing with LEGOs? Want me to add a poll?

I've never given up playing with legos. Though at the moment I don't have any. I gave away my first gen robotics invention system right before the move. There's just too many cool things you can do with them to ever really give them up.

[Thorn]

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Contrary to Barry, I never started. Legos didn't really catch on in the US until I was well past playing with toy bricks. By the time they really caught on here, I was more interested in cars, computers and chasing women. Cars and computers still hold my interest, and I caught the woman I want and need.

[barry99705]

Re: Two amusing LEGO stories to start your weekend

Contrary to Barry, I never started. Legos didn't really catch on in the US until I was well past playing with toy bricks. By the time they really caught on here, I was more interested in cars, computers and chasing women. Cars and computers still hold my interest, and I caught the woman I want and need.

We all know the truth. You didn't get legos because you didn't put your first set of building blocks away. You just left them out in the rain in Wiltshire.

[Deviant Ollam]

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I have the strongest memories of going into the city with my parents around Christmas time where there were these huge pieces of LEGO art. Some of which were concept-based grand-scale replicas (like a "LEGO man" made out of thousands of regular rectangular blocks, standing 8 feet tall) and some were LEGO-scale worlds but done massively large (one i distinctly remember was a space-station type of affair, which even included some men on short poles which were affixed to motorized elements... so that when looking down corridors or through windows the astronauts would be seen to "float" around, attending to their tasks)

I suppose i wound up not playing with LEGOs as much maybe when i was about 13 or so. I just was spending more and more time outside and with friends. (Or inside with friends playing video games, etc)

I was an only child so that's why i loved LEGOs and Construx and Erector Sets, Capsela, etc. Tinker Toys were probably my first foray into this sort of recreational building, when i was very young. LEGO kicked in close to the early years, as well. The others I all outgrew, save for LEGO which held my attention the longest until everything went into the closet and eventually my parents' basement.

P.S. - CotMan... no worries, amigo. I knew you weren't making fun of me, but i wasn't sure if you were just humorously pointing out the grammatical mix-up or not. Hah.

[mouseling]

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[QUOTE=TheCotMan;95394]LEGOs provide great things for kids: (none of these ideas listed are new or first suggested by me about LEGOs.
Yes. LEGOs are awesome. What is this, "rule," of which you type? Something about them only being for kids? I thought many hackers don't really care much about such social norms. ;-)

Of course, this might explain why the exceptions (people that do care about social norms) have chosen to fork child processes.[/QUOTE


There is *no* age limit for legos. At one con i know, where the average age of attendees is 50+ , the first thing that appears in the common room are boxes of legos and K'nex dumped out on the table, so people can play while chatting.

-mouse

[TheCotMan]

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Ok. Poll added.

[lil_freak]

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You can never be too old for LEGOs.

I still break out my castle (The older cooler version (I think 1985)) set every once in awhile. I still have all the pieces to it and it makes me smile.

I might have to make a LEGO Castle case now, however I will not use my old set. I don't let others near that set, so I guess I'll have to buy some more LEGOs.

[Greyhatter]

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hah. nice.

i always comment on people's grammar and typos in that fashion. my biggest criticism happens with "your" vs. "you're"

someone will say "that's why your awesome"

and i'll reply "what about my awesome? have you seen it?"

Oh, how fun, the proper grammar thing again... You like potato and I like potahto, You like tomato and I like tomahto Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto, Let's call the whole thing off ...

BTW, I'm sure I'll get my butt kicked, however, I've always thought Lego's were for girls and Tinker Toys and Erector sets were for boys because of the pretty colors, wooden, and shiny parts respectively:

pretty

wooden

shiny