And you may ask yourself, "Well...how did I get here?"
I drink a very specific brand of beer. Pilsner Urquel. So does my wife. She also drinks my Scotch and smokes my cigars! Yes, I'm lucky to have a woman who, in a lot of ways, is just like me. But since she's started blogging, and become active on the forum, she's been hogging my computer! Hrm, maybe I could get her to start troubleshooting them as well? So something had to give, despite the fact there was nothing more to give. We were using
drax0r's iBook, and last week I brought my uber-laptop home, but I usually leave it at work during the week. So...I pulled the new, yet-to-be-rebuilt mini from my KVM and plugged her in. Its like she's on crack.

Yeah its tight quarters, but at least we're together in the evenings.
My boy bought close to $200 of the 600+ piece LEGO sets on clearance with his birthday money. We stayed up way past his bedtime putting some new stuff together. He doesn't need me anymore - following the directions he's been able to get stuff together all on his own these last few weeks. He likes me there nonetheless, so I sit and build boring things like fantastical troop transports and cargo aircraft. They do seems to come in handy when we its the good guys against the bad guys, and there's always a good vs. evil struggle in every game we play. Since he was a toddler, I told him evil never triumphs over good. Now that he's older, and wants to win, I get to be the bad guy (or, since today we were playing with Star Wars LEGOS) he explained I would be on the Dark Side.
That's me boy.
When he was but a baby,
celtmanx gave him a toddler's X-Wing fighter play set and Millennium Falcon. He loves those toys. And just about every hour of every day, he has some ethical/semantical/hierarchical question concerning the Star Wars universe. And while I appreciate the insight, its hard to explain to an eight-year old that when governments become tyrannical, they're no longer the "good guys" and those who would be known today as "terrorists" are worth rooting for.
Where did all this get so fucked up?
I drink a very specific brand of beer. Pilsner Urquel. So does my wife. She also drinks my Scotch and smokes my cigars! Yes, I'm lucky to have a woman who, in a lot of ways, is just like me. But since she's started blogging, and become active on the forum, she's been hogging my computer! Hrm, maybe I could get her to start troubleshooting them as well? So something had to give, despite the fact there was nothing more to give. We were using
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Yeah its tight quarters, but at least we're together in the evenings.
My boy bought close to $200 of the 600+ piece LEGO sets on clearance with his birthday money. We stayed up way past his bedtime putting some new stuff together. He doesn't need me anymore - following the directions he's been able to get stuff together all on his own these last few weeks. He likes me there nonetheless, so I sit and build boring things like fantastical troop transports and cargo aircraft. They do seems to come in handy when we its the good guys against the bad guys, and there's always a good vs. evil struggle in every game we play. Since he was a toddler, I told him evil never triumphs over good. Now that he's older, and wants to win, I get to be the bad guy (or, since today we were playing with Star Wars LEGOS) he explained I would be on the Dark Side.
That's me boy.
When he was but a baby,
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Where did all this get so fucked up?
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Please tell me that there's a word missing from that sentance or that you aren't referring to suicide bombers in the Middle East or we're through.
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Is that clear?
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And I'd trade it today for a $100 HP 19" Flat Panel Display!
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I think that it is great that G knows so much about Star Wars.....but....I can definitely understand how it would be hard to explain to an 8 y.o. the complexities of the Rebel Alliance vs the Imperial Army and how the "terrorists" can actually be the good guys in that aspect.
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I still eagerly await G's first 'hello world' shell script..
I did the lego thing.. Totally addictive..Then I got craftsman tools for christmas and started working on lawnmowers...
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Aahh, how I miss my bucket of Legos. I never built complex things, but I sure had fun. And my grandma always built stuff with me.
You are the Dark Side. ;)
Also - is Star Wars Legos fun? The games look way cute.
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Here's a shot I took with my new camera "Super Macro" mode. We have a lot of fun with them - but I didn't know much about the game; he played it a lot in STL at his friends house but got them himself for his birthday earlier this month. So...to answer your question I watched him play. I want one too! It looked sooooo cool. You're a little lego guy (like in the picture) running around trying to complete tasks. Every so often you find a pile of lego bricks and have to use "The Force" to assemble them, oh and the music! Scenes and tracks straight from the movies. It looked like a lot of fun.
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That's what my brother and I got instead of Legos. But than again, I'm not even sure Legos were around when we were kids.
Hmmm! Feeling really old now.
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