For Christmas, I decided to make a nice cutting board for Shanin because, you know, who doesn’t like a cutting board? After looking around for a while, I finally found a pattern which was close to ...

Timelapse time again! This time, it’s the massive Crawler Crane (#42042), complete with various actions! This moves forward, pivots, and the crane… picker upper thingy goes up and down, and the ...

Hey all, finally did another timelapse of LEGO assembly. Today’s treat is the venerable Coruscant Police Gunship (set #75046) from the Clone Wars flavor of Star Wars. My buddies Jordan and Angel...

See, Python has a fun interpretation of scoping. Let’s say I define a variable and a function at the same level, then access the variable from the function; the function will read the variable just...

What to do, what to do? That’s always the question, isn’t it? Let me first qualify: I recognize that I’m lucky that I have the luxury of enough time that I have to deliberate on how to spend it. B...

After I posted how much purchasing a console and ALL the sets for LEGO Dimensions on Facebook, my buddy asked “Yes, but how many hours of entertainment will it provide? If you completely neglect al...

We had some ugly sliding doors on the closet. I mean ugly. Nice and 70’s brown. Top that off, the doors swung back and forth very easily and fell off even easier. Every time Cora would open the do...

So, for Mother’s Day, Mom wanted some spice racks. Well, the plastic ones on Amazon weren’t very good looking (in my humble opinion) so I decided I was going to build some for her instead. Of cours...

I have a tragedy to report. Last month, one of the bastions of history has melted away. Southern Lumber, the most awesomest place to go for wood in San Jose, has closed its doors after 110 years in...

TL; DR: Interesting, thought-provoking, philosophically deep. Worth a watch So, for reasons unknown, I feel like I really don’t like Jared Leto. I have no idea why. I mean, I really like many of...