Tatas for Toys

Tatas for Toys (thomas chamberlain/Tatas for Toys)

Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Willamette Week has the story.

LEGO Sorting

A machine to sort a million pounds of LEGO
LegoSpencer and basically

LEGO enthusiasts have created like a parallel universe. It's kind of nuts.

Legos

How to STOP speeding Lego Cars
Brick Technology

Legos are out of control.

Pictures

Tsar Bomba

Donald Sutherland in Kelly's Heroes

Corsairs over San Diego

Sarah Gillis playing the violin in zero-G

B-24 & B-17 over Golden Gate Bridge

Matchbox Cars
What does 2'4 mean?

Reliefs of Indonesian history at Indonesian National Monument

A-10 Warthog

The Razorback, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia
No, those white blobs are not houses. Nobody lives there.

Roadkill's 56 Chevy & Mount Shasta

Big Loader

Meccano automated mine train system
electraglide1976

This mechanical fantasy showed up. I'm watching this and it occurs to me that we had a plastic toy that was basically the same thing. A little searching turned up the Tomy Big Loader. Do we still have it? I checked with the wife and we don't, it's gone away. Surprisingly, since her interest in mechanical things is practically nil, she remembered it. So while the physical toy has gone away, it has been memorialized on YouTube.

Tomy Big Loader Technical Review (for Grown Ups)
Julian's Shorts

Fx Bricks & LEGO Trains

Fx Track System Debut
Fx Bricks

We used to build all kinds of Legos here, but then the kids grew and the bricks got shunted off into storage. Then the Saturn V appeared on Christmas and I've been poking around in Lego land again. I keep threatening to set up our Lego train, once I find it. It's probably at the bottom of the pile.

Merry Christmas to Me

LEGO Saturn V, Bose Speakers

My kids showed me a little love this Christmas. I just finished assembling the rocket. Nothing like handling the pieces to give you an idea of the proportions. Note the 4th astronaut standing on top of the booster.

They also gave me a bottle of fancy sherry since I was curious about it. It's little stronger than wine which I like. Bourbon is like 45% alcohol. I can't drink it straight so I cut it water which makes it about 20%, which is about what sherry is. Strong enough to feel warm on the way down, but not so strong as to burn you.

My new toys are sitting on top of the 300 pound desk that oldest and I hauled back from Colorado many moons ago. I don't recall how we got it in the basement, but it's been sitting there, unused and unloved ever since. Until now. Now it makes a great workspace for assembling Legos.

Putting this kit together was so much fun I'm thinking about getting another one, maybe the lunar lander. If you ever watch Scott Manley's videos about space exploration, you may have seen a model of a Saturn V in the background. I never suspected it was a Lego model, but now we are brothers of the Lego!

BADASS LEGO GUNS