7 posts tagged “lego”
Show us a logo you really love.
What do you collect?
Music, to some degree, though it's more a matter of I buy (and otherwise acquire) a lot of new music. I wouldn't say I'm really a music collector, though, since I have very few things that could be considered valuable or rare.
One thing I do have is a collection of classic space Lego ships from the late 70s through the early 90s. I have Lego that dates from even earlier than that (all the way back to 1972, when I got my first set) but not built or displayed.
What are your plans for the holiday weekend?
So far
Friday night: pizza and beer with my half-brother Jonathan and his friend Kyle while listening to the As game and talking about the Simpsons... then watching the Simpsons season 8 box set.
Saturday afternoon: driving to Menlo Park, stopping at In 'n' Out Burger on the way.
Saturday night: Dinner at my dad and Susan's house featuring my step-sister Sonja, her two kids Zane and Rachel, Jonathan and another friend of his, Chris (both econ students at Harvard) and economist Hal Varian and his wife. Hal is best known for his book Information Rules and being found dean of the UC Berkeley SIMS. He started consulting for Google in 2002 and now does research and statistical analysis for them.
Hal had a lot of interesting things to relate about working at Google, which I'm actually not going to blog here because I don't know if he necessarily said them expecting them to be blogged. I asked him why he didn't have a blog, and he said he didn't really have a good reason, but he did have a NY Times column, which was sort of like his blog. I was like "yeah, NY Times, that's cool, but it's old media." (Maybe I should give him a Vox invitation.) He was interested to hear about Six Apart and seemed surprised that people (a lot of people) actually pay for Typepad. I think I gave him a good explanation of why people would be wlling to pay for Typepad (ability to customize template, scalability, reliability) when there are so many free solutions out there, like Google's Blogger. Following that he asked an interesting question, which was whether Typepad owners were able to use AdSense on their blogs-I told him I didn't know about Typepad, but that Movable Type bloggers definitely did.
Later at dinner we had a conversation about company and culture.
Sunday afternoon: shopping at Borders, followed by more work on Celebrated Summer, and catching up on Vox (which is why you're reading this.)
More to come
Tonight: watching more Rome on DVD and finishing the Jawa Sandcrawler I purchased some weeks ago.
Tomorrow: picking my other half-brother Andy at SFO, then taking him to Stanford, where he has to check-in for some kind of special class dealie, he's doing, after which we're planning on seeing Little Miss Sunshine.
I own (and display) a collection of vintage Lego spaceships, some dating back as far as 1978.
Could be this. I was heck of into Lego back in the day.
