The evil king orders the beheading of his disappointing court jester. #LEGO

The evil king orders the beheading of his disappointing court jester. #LEGO

I wish they'd get away from IP-based specialty bricks and go back to making really interesting and innovative...

I wish they'd get away from IP-based specialty bricks and go back to making really interesting and innovative general-purpose bricks in generic sets.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/13/167055503/why-legos-are-so-expensive-and-so-popular

Ha ha....terrific.

Ha ha....terrific.

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LEGO The Battle of Helm's Deep.

This is absolutely brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WflM7m343k

Ho. Lee. Crap.

Ho. Lee. Crap.

This is fracking amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3PXYvuxivg

"Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment...

"Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought."
-- Ernst Mach (physicist, 1838-1916)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mach

"To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery."

"To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery."
-- Abraham Pais (physicist, 1918-2000)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pais

"First.

"First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it."
-- William James (psychologist, 1842-1910)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James

"Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties."

"Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties."
-- Edmund Beecher Wilson (zoologist, 1856-1939)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Beecher_Wilson

"The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us."

"The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us."
-- Ernst Kretschmer (psychiatrist, 1888-1964)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Kretschmer

"There is only one nature—the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one.

"There is only one nature—the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole."
-- Sir William Cecil Dampier (food scientist & agriculturalist, 1867-1952)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cecil_Dampier

"All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured."

"All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured."
-- Edward Thorndike (psychologist, 1874-1949)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thorndike

Holy cow! That. Is. Amazing!!

Holy cow! That. Is. Amazing!!

Originally shared by Beyond the Brick

The LEGO MOC (My Own Creation) of the day.

The detail of the castle is just incredible!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38575412@N08/8048446421

"Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they...

"Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it."
-- Louis Agassiz (geologist & paleontologist, 1807-1873)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz

"Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles,...

"Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist."
- Clyde Kluckhohn (cultural anthropologist, 1905-1960)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Kluckhohn

"[In] the realm of science,

"[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that is the very meaning of scientific work. ... Every scientific 'fulfillment' raises new 'questions' and cries out to be surpassed rendered obsolete. Everyone who wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this."
-- Max Weber (sociologist, 1864-1920)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber

"Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design."

"Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design."
-- Oliver Sacks (biologist & neurologist, 1933- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sacks

"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."

"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."
-- Johannes Kepler (astronomer, 1571-1630)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler

"Life is not a miracle.

"Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth. ... [My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life."
-- Harold Urey (chemist, 1893-1981)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Urey

"Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

"Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
-- J.B.S. Haldane (geneticist, 1892-1964)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane

"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump.

"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."
-- Willard Van Orman Quine (philosopher & logician, 1908-2000)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine

"The progress of science is often affected more by the frailties of humans and their institutions than by the...

"The progress of science is often affected more by the frailties of humans and their institutions than by the limitations of scientific measuring devices. The scientific method is only as effective as the humans using it. It does not automatically lead to progress."
-- Steven Zumdahl (chemist, 1942- )
http://www.chemistry.illinois.edu/events/alumni/index.html

"The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative,...

"The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit, where all the powers of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed by the task. One feels oneself in contact with something that is infinite and one finds joy that is beyond expression in sounding the abyss of science and the secrets of the infinite mind."
-- Florence Bascom (geologist, 1862-1945)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Bascom

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty.

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."
-- Richard Feynman (theoretical physicist, 1918-1988)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman

"There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of...

"There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. ... Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness."
-- Michio Kaku (physicist, 1947- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku

"Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the...

"Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth."
-- Jules Verne (author, 1828-1905)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne

"By doubting we come to enquiry, and through enquiry we perceive truth."

"By doubting we come to enquiry, and through enquiry we perceive truth."
-- Peter Abelard (philosopher & logician, 1079-1142)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Abelard

"Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty.

"Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome."
-- Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist & evolutionary biologist, 1941-2002)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

"The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as...

"The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them."
-- Tacitus (historian, 56-117)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus

"Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity.

"Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it is not easy to retain just one trait. A scientist has to be curious like a child; perhaps one can understand that there are other childish features he hasn't grown out of. "
-- Otto Robert Frisch (physicist, 1904-1979)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Robert_Frisch

"Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African...

"Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps already living in Europe while we emerged in Africa... In other words, we are an improbable and fragile entity, fortunately successful after precarious beginnings as a small population in Africa, not the predictable end result of a global tendency. We are a thing, an item of history, not an embodiment of general principles."
-- Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist & evolutionary biologist, 1941-2002)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

"An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has...

"An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand million years of existence. In many ways we are a biological accident, the product of countless propitious circumstances. As we peer back through the fossil record, through layer upon layer of long-extinct species, many of which thrived far longer than the human species is ever likely to do, we are reminded of our mortality as a species. There is no law that declares the human animal to be different, as seen in this broad biological perspective, from any other animal. There is no law that declares the human species to be immortal."
-- Richard Leakey (anthropologist, 1944- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leakey

"Genius is patience."

"Genius is patience."
-- Isaac Newton (physicist & mathematician, 1643-1727)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."
-- William Lawrence Bragg (physicist, 1890-1971)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lawrence_Bragg

"In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever...

"In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
-- Paul Dirac (theoretical physicist, 1902-1984)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac

"Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility.

"Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries."
-- Vannevar Bush (engineer & computer scientist, 1890-1974)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush

"Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are...

"Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles." (1970)
-- James Watson (biochemist & geneticist, 1928- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
-- Herbert Alexander Simon (sociologist, 1916-2001)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon

Not a quote, but share-worthy all the same.

Not a quote, but share-worthy all the same.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AhmedZeeshan/posts/X7r7oGQUvta

"At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes—an openness to new...

"At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes—an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense."
-- Carl Sagan (astronomer & astrophysicist, 1934-1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

"I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to...

"I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life."
-- Michael Faraday (chemist & physicist, 1791-1867)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday

"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."

"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist, 1958- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson

"The Church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture."

"The Church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture."
-- Elbert Hubbard (writer & philosopher, 1856-1915)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbert_Hubbard

"If I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it...

"If I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."
-- William Kingdon Clifford (mathematician & philosopher, 1845-1879)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
-- Albert Einstein (theoretical physicist, 1879-1955)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

"Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

"Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both - by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it beyond, and so on in unending alternation."
-- Robert Millikan (physicist, 1868-1953)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Andrews_Millikan

"I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."
-- Marie Curie (physicist & chemist, 1867-1934)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it.

"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things."
-- Hippocrates (physician, 460 BC - 370 BC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
-- Galileo Galilei (physicist & mathematician, 1564-1642)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke (author and futurist, 1917-2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."
-- Louis Pasteur (chemist & microbiologist, 1822-1892) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
-- Carl Sagan (astronomer & astrophysicist, 1934-1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his...

"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
-- Charles Darwin (naturalist, 1809 - 1882)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

"To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend...

"To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer."
-- Hermann Joseph Muller (geneticist, 1890-1967)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Joseph_Muller

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
-- Adam Smith (economist, 1723-1790)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not.

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
-- Arthur C. Clarke (author and futurist, 1917-2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."
-- Edwin Hubble (astronomer, 1889-1953)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble

"All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds...

"All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction."
-- Konrad Lorenz (zoologist & ethologist, 1903-1989)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz

"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."

"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."
-- Niels Bohr (physicist, 1885-1962)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

"The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me.

"The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
-- Carl Jung (psychologist & psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

"The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind."

"The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind."
-- Nikola Tesla (physicist & engineer, 1856-1943)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
-- Richard Feynman (theoretical physicist, 1918-1988)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-- Isaac Asimov (author & biochemist, 1919-1992)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls.

"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys."
-- Sally Ride (physicist & astronaut, 1951-2012)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride

"The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them.

"The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion."
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist, 1958- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
-- Isaac Newton (physicist & mathematician, 1643-1727)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity."

"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity."
-- Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist & evolutionary biologist, 1941-2002)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

"Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than...

"Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house."
-- Henri Poincaré (mathematician & physicist, 1854-1912)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9

"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of...

"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness."
-- Carl Sagan (astronomer & astrophysicist, 1934-1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_sagan

"An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer."

"An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer."
-- Max Planck (theoretical physicist, 1858-1947)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck

"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence."

"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence."
-- Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biologist, 1941- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
-- Stephen Hawking (theoretical physicist, 1942- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_hawking

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
-- Marie Curie (physicist & chemist, 1867-1934)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
-- Albert Einstein (theoretical physicist, 1879-1955)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because...

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
-- Max Planck (theoretical physicist, 1858-1947)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck

If LEGO doesn't make this a set pronto, they're stupid.

If LEGO doesn't make this a set pronto, they're stupid.

Originally shared by Scott “marsroverdriver” Maxwell

Now this is a LEGO Curiosity. It's made of 1000 LEGO pieces, and they can drive it using Bluetooth. IwantitIwantitIwantit.
http://mashable.com/2012/08/06/curiosity-mars-rover-lego/

Olivia rescuing her cat from the apple tree.

Olivia rescuing her cat from the apple tree.

A LEGO creation inspired by my daughter's vivid imagination.

Inspired by LEGO's Mini-Modulars set, I threw together this: an upscale contemporary townhouse, complete with...

Inspired by LEGO's Mini-Modulars set, I threw together this: an upscale contemporary townhouse, complete with rooftop pool. It has the same base dimensions as the Mini-Modulars, but each floor is a little taller, so it's not exactly to the same scale.

Finished!

Finished!

Finally getting a chance to start assembling my birthday toy. :-D

Finally getting a chance to start assembling my birthday toy. :-D

#lego

LANGUAGE VIGILANTE

LANGUAGE VIGILANTE
by Craig Froehle

You might call me a "Grammar Nazi,"
But I want to set the record straight;
I am a language vigilante
And I didn't come here to debate.

I'm a walking encyclopedia
Of punctuation and language rules.
If you ever doubt my credentials,
Here's a long list of my former schools.

I have accounts on all the websites.
I intend to point out each misdeed.
Your sentences are abominations
And your spelling makes my eyes bleed.

If you don't want me to hassle you,
Then adopt a better attitude.
Start to love subject-verb agreement
and confusing who with whom is rude.

The art of using semicolons
Is a subtle one, I will admit.
But substituting "your" for "you're"
Is an egregious crime to commit.

And when you confuse which and that
Or mix up adjectives and adverbs.
Please know I speak the truth when I say
I'm not the only one it disturbs.

Oxford commas are not optional.
Don't let anyone tell you they are.
Hyphens and dashes are different;
That you don't know that is just bizarre.

Knowing where commas go near quotations,
Is a sign of a civilized mind.
If I don't yell about your four-dot
Ellipsis, know I am being kind.

When you see a comment with nothing
But asterisked words and silent rage,
You'll know that I have visited
Your blog, Twitter, or Facebook page.

But realize that my cause is just
And my goal is nothing too extreme.
I simply want an error-free Web.
Is that too optimistic a dream?

I want LEGO to come out with a line of kits corresponding to different buildings and attractions within...

I want LEGO to come out with a line of kits corresponding to different buildings and attractions within Disneyworld's Magic Kingdom.

Ones I think would make great LEGO kits include:
- Cinderella's Castle
- Space Mountain
- Main Street USA
- Prince Charming's Carousel
- Jungle Cruise
- Haunted Mansion
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Swiss Family Treehouse
- And, of course, the monorail!

To be honest, now that I think about it, I'm almost shocked these don't already exist.