Needed a photo showing the size of the deer relative to other objects, Ashleigh delivered.
11.29.2011
11.28.2011
I am excited to officially launch my shop with the release of the deer LEGO kit. I’ve tried building it with real pieces now, and I need to make a couple structural changes, but it will look the same. Also, I’m hand drawing the graphics for the instruction manual, which should be fun and painstaking.
I wanted to get these up in time for Christmas, but because I have to order these pieces on an individual basis from resellers, I need orders to come in before December 5th to get them out in time.
This was super fun to do, I hope people like it! Tell your kids, tell your wife.
11.25.2011
My primary contribution to last night: placards. Ashleigh, on the other hand, deserves a medal. (Photos by John Holdun)
11.23.2011 The letter that comes from LEGO when you order individual pieces
Dear David,
Thank you for using our special Pick A Brick service. It is nice to see there’s a LEGO enthusiast within you, you clearly have a good idea of what you want and you know how to get it. We hope your package meets, and even exceeds, all the expectations you had when you placed your order.
Our biggest wish is to provide you, and all of our customers, with the best experience possible, therefore we are eager to receive any suggestions or concerns you may have. Please send your feedback to http://service.lego.com/
We hope you have enjoyed the Pick A Brick experience so far, and wish you many hours of good, creative fun.
Best wishes from all of us in the LEGO team.
11.20.2011
Hotdogmobile, steakmobile, hamburgermobile, saladmobile, pizzamobile.
11.20.2011 X is the poor man’s Y, through the ages
I was thinking about the sentence structure “X is the poor man’s Y” and I started wondering how far back it went. I looked through every appearance in the Google News archives (the poor man’s research library). It looks to be pretty old, and usage from as early as the ’40s seems to have that little dash of snark that comes with the phrase today.
“The street car Is the poor man’s carriage.” — 1880
“The olive is the poor man’s fruit.” — 1892
“The saloon is the poor man’s club.” — 1899
“the moving picture house is the poor man’s theater” — 1917
“Canadian cheese — Canadian chedder it is called — is the poor man’s cheese.” — 1918
“The submarine is the poor man’s battleship.” — 1930
“the tin can is the poor man’s smokehouse.” — 1932
“A visit to Canada is the poor man’s trip abroad,” — 1941
“Somerset Maugham is the poor man’s de Maupassant and Louis Bromfield is the poor man’s Maugham.” — 1945 (Earliest snark use I found.)
“Dieting Is The Poor Man’s Psychiatry” — 1956
“[Heroin] is the poor man’s alcohol.” — 1969
“[A newsstand] is the poor man’s art museum.” — 1977 (Larry Flynt, actually.)
“the family photograph is the poor man’s coat of arms” — 1981
“Crack is the poor man’s cocaine.” — 1986
“luge is the poor man’s bobsled.” — 1988
“[Mark Harmon] is the poor man’s Tom Cruise.” — 1988 (Roughly the beginning of the end for sincere usage.)
“Le Pescadou is the poor man’s Le Bernardin.” — 1991
“[Michael Jai] White is the poor man’s Denzel Washington.” — 1997
“the [iPod] Shuffle is the poor man’s Nano now” — 2005 (R.I.P. “X is the poor man’s Y”)
11.18.2011
Who is my Secret Crossword Puzzler?
I received this (seemingly screenprinted) crossword puzzle in the mail a couple of days ago. No return address, no actual postmark (is it from INSIDE VIACOM!?), and stamped letters on the envelope. Who is this mystery puzzler?? Should I be scared? Do I have a creepy stalker? Please weigh in.
My crosswords are hitting people’s mailboxes and apparently it’s coming off as creepy and/or scary. Everything is going precisely to plan. It’s the first of a series of items in the shop I’m putting together. More in the coming days.
Also, it’s not screen-printed. The envelope is hand stamped (which destroys my wrist), and the paper stock is nice, but it’s just out of my photo printer here at home.
11.15.2011
I’m gonna start a little store soon and I’ll be selling a few things. This is a preview of one. More soon!
11.14.2011
This is the LEGO kit I’ve been working on. Would you buy this? Would other people buy this? I’ve never sold anything before, but I’m really happy with the guy. I’m considering a series, maybe, but I don’t know if people would be interested. Let me know, somehow?
11.7.2011 Dummy content you can type with your left hand
So you can keep clicking with the right hand.
Names
- Abed
- Bart
- Dave
- Tag
- Xerxes
- Descartes
Nouns
- Fart
- Swagger
- Tartar
- Czar
- Dwarf
Adjectives
- Deaf
- Starved
- Free
- Erect
- Tart
Verbs
- Exacerbate
- Fret
- Stargaze
- Stab
- Ebb
Phrases
- Caged rats get free water!
- Stewardesses dread reggae barf
- Sad serfs serve sad cabbage
- Vests are cravats! we assert
- Cave scarabs scare savages
- Fat ragers read great faxes
Thanks to Tag, Casey, and Joe for help with this.
