Local TRU had them.
I was standing there for at least 30 minutes feeling the bags. Sooner or later we'll have an official list of barcodes to just match up, but for now here are mine. Someone on Flickr has posted an American barcode list...and recently removed it. Huzzah, however, for Brickset.
Luckily I got the ones I initially wanted. Later I'll pick up two ninjas (one for a friend), a cheerleader (for my sister), a nurse, and maybe the caveman, Indian and/or robot.
-CF
What's that? Halloween? Oh, yeah!
Gallery
Lens Flare (Taken with cell phone. Interesting...)
One of my CCM friends was holding a small "party" of sorts, so I was able to dress up! No one else did, though. (But one of my friends attended who is both a redhead and Doctor Who fan, so if need be she could have been roped in to be Amy. )
I would go buy a fez (and mop), but I do not know when I shall be wearing this next. (I am not going to Katsucon (anime con) in February, but if I c
A rant on bley. *fears the evil eye from Aanchir*
First, IMO. Please keep that statement in mind and remember that this is a blog based on opinions. There will be a rift and void between our ideas, but I think I can back up my opinion and I hope we can all remain friends and enjoy Lego together.
Now, as some of you know, I have a certain thing about the Bionicle piece color known as "Bley" or "bluish grey." The color that was introduced with the Metruan arms/joints and the Toa Metru join
Well, I hope to bring this guy to my event on Saturday, but I need some advice.
This MOC isn't the best, but I like him and want to display him. But he needs work before I'll reveal him to the BBC (if I ever do) so I want your advice on improving him. I already made the green piraka legs hordika, and experimented with a metruan body instead of the claws and vissie feet. But I'm not too happy with him, so I might just scrap him.
Any tips?
-CF
It's good to have AFOL friends.
Free Bionicle pieces!
(Those are from a 2006 Playset)
Also, this past WAMALUG meeting, I finally got my hands on the 2007 City Advent calender. Pretty much for the pieces that come with it. Half off, too, for $12.50.
Figs
Models
Highlights include:
About 22 1x1 tiles (!)
Life Preserver
Trash Can
Clock
3 Briefcases
Police man (and other figs I don't have)
Other cool pieces
-CF
Quote of the Day: Proofread carefully to see if you any words ou
Just like past years...same themed entry, except this year I can't make the March....
Today marks the 36th anniversary of Roe v Wade, 1973.
-CF
I'm drafting this because I feel it is too politically themed. Especially with that last comment down there.
~Makaru~
Oh, I see. I went to bed before that one was posted. So...I'll edit this, lock it, and, finally, say that I wish it would have worked out, but I guess it can't even though other similar blog entries have been handled perfec
Why is it that I must press FN+insert for the Print Screen function, when I use Print screen 100% more of the time than I use the insert function?
Srsly, ppl.
Can I change this? Dig deep in the coding and switch a portion of it?
-CF
Quote of the Day: Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried nailing jello to a wall.
Everyone else it listing out what they got, might as well focus on the getting part of this holiday too.
Money
Hand-sewn pillow from my 9 year old sister (and family)
Portable laptop mouse
Cargo pants (my second pair. I had an epiphany that I don't want to wear jeans anymore.)
Spirited Away (Everyone should see this movie.)
2009 Astronomy Calender (With some really good pictures this year.)
Something from my dad which I'll blog about later with a "now what?" entry. Seems to be part of
So they were all like "matrix of leadership" and I was all *facepalm* really? C'mon!
Saw Transformers 2 at 7 PM Tuesday evening, to brag to those who had to wait until midnight. (Apparently my managers saw it Monday at midnight!)
T'was cool. I can't say much more than that. But taking it as simply an action flick, it was very cool! And hey, there were some cool/clever parts, and a ton of more Transformers.
I was tempted to get the soundtrack score but I realized it's a lot like the
I am so glad I brought my Bionicle Encyclopedia to college with me! (Along with the other guidebooks. In hopes of using them for reference when writing my epic, and we all know how well that's been going.)
Anyway, I think we should cause the data loss the BZP Time Slip, based on a similar six month period in the MU where nobody can remember anything. (BS01 link.)
Granted, it'll never be presented to the masses, nor greatly accepted, but that's what I'm going to call it.
-CF
Quot
(Figured I should just give you the picture first, then a description.)
June 19th was Reston Town Center's annual Taste of the Town (or I think now it's called Taste of Reston) Festival. Local restaurants set up tents and you sample food by exchanging your tickets which you bought.
They have a kids section, in which WAMALUG (WAMALTC) is invited to. We set up a little town display with a train going around it (people like things that move!) and it's cool and fun. We also had a table with
I know at least a few of my readers here like the Alex Rider book series (though I fear I might have outgrown it, as I am not excited for Crocodile Tears*) by British author Anthony Horowitz. Upon realizing that outgrowing feeling, I started to wonder about his other works. I've done a little digging on Amazon and Wikipedia, but the only thing I can find that is not geared at the teenage audience would be a novel of his called Mindgame. Sounds like a cool story, so I might consider picking it
I built this after being inspired by Eric Sophie's ZRX2.
It's not my best work, so I'm not posting it, but it was fun to make. Plus, it barely stands up.
I bought 20+ technic/Bionicle balls just for this.
I also made this in LDD. It requires forty 1x3 curved slopes in black. That'll cost me about $10 from you-know-where (once I add in shipping and other random pieces.) But I'm pretty much out of money, so I won't get to make this in time for a display in April. Maybe I'll come back
Are you a ninja in a pirate kind of way?
Or...
A pirate in a ninja kind of way?
I'd say I'm a ninja-pirate in a Jedi kind of way.
-CF
Quote of the Day: It's a story about a ninja who couldn't climb a wall...but became a big pop star.
I have a small obsession with collecting books.* Working in a bookstore, my employee discount makes for tempting impulse-buys, leading to having about 100 books but having only read about 40% of those.** A full bookshelf looks nice. It's impressive. It's a finish line goal; me always knowing I'll have something to pick up immediately upon finishing a book. But it does seem like I should slow down my book-buying until I actually finish a lot of these. Especially when a handful of these are borr
I played Apples to Apples for the first time last night. Tons o' fun!
My adjective: Visionary
Someone's winning noun: Hellen Keller.
If you have not played this game I recommend you do so the next time you have a group of friends around. (And after someone gets to about 5 or 10 adjectives collected, don't draw anymore nouns.)
-CF
Currently rockin' out to: Appleseed OST
Here I go again, stating my opinion of the 2008 Bionicle sets. I've given some thoughts in other people's blogs, so perhaps you know what I think. But I will also give extended thoughts and reasons, opinions, mind you, about these.
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «I am really liking these Makuta sets. Perhaps it's the wings. Bat-like, they can strike fear from up high and swoop down to attack. (But the summer ones might not be in the air)
In general, I'll aim for the re
Blog entries, term papers, even news stories sometimes. I just do not go back and reread what I wrote and check for errors.
Is that bad?
I trust spell checker too much and I trust my writing well enough the first time around.
Now, I know that Stephen King's editor said that the first draft, he is writing for himself, and the second draft he should be writing for his audience, so you then take out all the little things you felt like inserting. However, I remember once my editor said he
I was so excited about ordering a new laptop that I really should have told you all that "Hole in the Wall," a game show based off a Japanese one, is making an appearance on Fox Sunday night at 8.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can search videos of "Hole in the Wall" and/or read my description: A big foam wall has some sort of cutout(s). Contestant(s) must then shape themselves to this cutout or be pushed into the water behind them, for the wall is moving towards them and the
Yes, you read that title correctly. Need I say any more?
(Pic via the internet.)
My school had a Relay for Life (raising money for cancer research) yesterday/today, and during the event groups sell baked-goods to participants to raise more money. I baked something I felt would be irresistible: a delicious cookie inside a delicious cookie. The mere thought sounds amazing.
So I baked a batch and they turned out amazing. Delicious, ridiculous, incredible.
Here's the recipe I grabbed onlin
That is how tall my ceiling is from the floor.
The HHGTTG poster is 9 feet tall.
My bed is about three feet above the floor.
And let us also take note that putting a sticky 3M hook on the wall would "lower" the ceiling 3 inches.
In the end, the string is too stretchy that the poster lowers another foot, annoyingly.
This is what it looks like.
I was expecting to only be able to see the top two thirds, but that extra foot is making hanging it not worth my while. I'd try extra hooks but
Hello BZPower,
Let me tell you a story of a Boy Scout who got lost in the woods
Ok, let me try this again...
Hello PZBower,
Let me stell you a tory of a Scoy Bout who got wost in the loods. Cow Hum? Cebause he wasn't using the studdy bystem. What a mupid storon! Now he found bimself heing based by a chair. This chair was muhongous! The Bout wasn't ratching where he was wunning, so he ripped over a troot, lell into a fatrine, and now he smells like a dile of pung.
woh ell.
The s
There are, apparently, two choices to life:
-Learn history
-Be doomed to repeat it.
I think I'll take my chances if it means not having to take history class...
-CF
But I could be, no?
Fedora, wide-brimmed like Indiana Jones.
Oh so tempting to buy.
I'm not one to wear ball-caps around. I'll wear one camping, absolutely. It's necessary. But I didn't even wear my geeked-out cap with a BrickFest patch on it at BrickFair.
But a fedora? Now that is something that appeals to me. I like to think that if I had one I would wear it around often.
I don't know what I'm worried about. Most of my IRL friends would accept it (and some have already said the
