Month: November, 2012

wood carvings

29 November, 2012 (12:00) | Geeked Out

Crazy.  These are just wood shavings beautifully arranged.   These have to take so much vision and time to produce. http://www.designswan.com/archives/incredible-wooden-chip-artwork-by-sergey-bobkov.html

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Harry Potter / Voldemort LEGO Lenticular Mosaic

28 November, 2012 (21:08) | LEGO© Creations

I’m a part of Steel City LUG, and we’re displaying at LEGO KidsFest this weekend, so I wanted to put together something special for it.  I was imbued by the Batman/Joker of Arthur Gugick, who was inspired by Christopher Doyle’s Dorian Bley.  I originally had a different idea, but it was my wife that came up […]

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Double sided MAN coaster

24 November, 2012 (12:00) | LEGO© Creations

This was an award for MAN Growth at a gathering of friends to give each other man awards.  The event focused on all of our unique talents; mine being LEGO creations. At first, I wanted to do a bonsai tree, but after seeing that a bunch have been done already, I lost some steam.  I […]

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In the house that was built by my grandfather’s hand

22 November, 2012 (12:00) | Memories

My mom didn’t know her biological dad right away. I think it was her teen years, but you’d have to ask her for the details. Anyway, when we were kids, we’d go visit Grandfather Warnick. That’s what we called him. We’d just go over for a few hours on a Saturday and sit around and […]

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Hall’s Rule of Social Order #94

19 November, 2012 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

User education is not an acceptable replacement for quality or good process.   Stop trying to pass it off as if it is.  We’ve all been there, I’m sure.  Someone is trying to sell you something, or give you something they don’t want, but you have to do something special in order to get the […]

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So, I’m 30.

16 November, 2012 (12:01) | Personal Update

And I’m fine with that. Honestly, I do feel a huge sense of ‘next chapter’ in my life.  I’m not sure that it was very gradual either.  I’m feeling like I’ve drawn a line in my mind; “Here are the thoughts, actions, desires, and goals of what used to be, and on this side is […]

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