Thursday, August 07, 2003

ok, so my obsession with lego and the system thereof has renewed itself. i pursue it with an ardent passion that knows few parallels in my life. things started innocently enough ... "reading" instructions from famous sets of days gone by, and checking out the ideas of fellow lunatics come to fruition on brickshelf. well, such a thing can only go so far before you discover something really incredible that someone with a lot of fucking bricks on their hands has created.

whoa.

of course, this inspired me to start tinkering around with the sets that i had lieieeeyiyeing around the house -- snowspeeder battle droid and destroyer droid. needless to say, these were not nearly the resources necessary to create a breathtaking work of staggering genius. alas. fortunately i happened upon some lego cad tools.

well, that was quite nice. an unlimited supply of virtual lego pieces. so i started to designing. well, that didn't work as well as i expected. i got the hang of the editors with relative ease, but found them somewhat unweildy, and not without drawbacks. you see, the bricks are virtual. that means that i can't later play with my creations. that is not cool. also, i had some qualms with the program -- no collision detection, for one, and general usability problems. it's just not everything a cad program could be. what are you gonna do?

so i tempted fate. i went to the lego shop at home deally-o. luckily, i am so unbelievably poor right now that i could do little besides create a (again) virtual collection. a long list of random stuff that i'd like to magically appear in my house. anyone out there who knows of any such magic, please contact me.

yet my will was not quite strong enough. i went to the forbidden outlet mall and found my self in one of the lego comany's nefarious outlet/retail centers. i escaped with a bill totalling a mere 28 dollars american. and this and this. not too bad. and now i have some additional chunks of plastic with which to amuse myself. that fix actually did more than i expected to quell my lego thirst. although i find myself disassembling the main model, creating something new and reassembling the original from memory daily, and while i still check out some of my favorite brickshelf haunts, lugnet users homepages, myriad ebay auctions and the recent updates at brickshelf, my urge to buy has been abated somewhat.

yet i yearn for more bricks. this will be satisfied somewhat when i next visit a parent. whichever one will have me first will find his or her household several pounds of lego lighter when i leave.

hmmm...

well, i've only scratched the surface of my mania. maybe i'll post more about this shit later. but you get the point.

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