January 9, 2008

Lego-O-Me!

MAKE, the magazine, just pushed this item on their blog -- LEGO organizing tips

Here's something that had never occurred to me: organizing your LEGO brick collection by creating same-size blocks/stacks and then just removing the number you need during a build. Kind of obvious, but...
Kind of obvious to me that there is a whole zombie army of grown, otherwise normal, men hanging out in various basements and attics and shops around the world with large simulacra of Bobs Big Boys trying to explode out of their skin.

(Yes, I know, that's hardly news. Indeed, most of MAKE magazine is targeted directly at the eternal barefoot boy in us all. In a way, that's why I like it.)

Still, I just don't get this Lego fetish.

(Yes, I know the Web is awash in various manboys touting their amazing constructions in Legos -- from the frozen Hans Solo


....to the 100% Lego-made car factory that produces mini Lego cars!.)

Still.... still... what gives with this bizarre obsession to make very large objects out of masses of teeny-tiny plastic blocks? Is this where all the excess production of our many fine trailer-park meth labs is going? Help me out here.

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Posted by Vanderleun at January 9, 2008 8:20 PM | TrackBack
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Well, if you can't control the big events of your
life, you can certainly kick butt down at the lego
convention. Remember, the metheee guys and gals
only talk a great game, actually doing anything, well, that's another day.

Posted by: the timguy at January 9, 2008 9:06 PM
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