Category: Miscellaneous

Amazing Lego Custom

So what do you do if you really want a Lego version of Amidala’s silvery starship from The Phantom Menace, but Lego has never made it (much less a metallic version)?

You make your own.

Give this guy an award. One of the most hardcore custom jobs of anything I have ever seen. I wonder how much the vac-metallization cost him?

The Incognito Bandito

One of the following four events did not actually occur today. Can you guess which is not true?

  1. In the Price Chopper carpark on the way home today, I was almost * attacked by an EVIL SNAKE!
  2. On the drive home, I had to give right-of-way to a pair of GIANT HORSES!
  3. A friend of mine (good naturedly) rejected a Hawaii souvenir on the basis of it being OFFENSIVE!
  4. When I got home, I knitted a model DALEK!

Here’s a hint for which one is a fabrication (geddit):

dalek sewed.jpg

Which means the other three must be true…

* – some details omitted

Some photos for your amusement…

Here I sit, listening to the waves crashing into the tidal pools just a few metres from the lobby. Those pools are full of tropical fish of all types and colors (and some things that aren’t fish as well). We got a much better look at this this morning when we dove on the submarine, which was really a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

We’re off to get dinner soon, so I thought I’d post some photos to illustrate some of the various things we’ve done this past week and a day. These are in chronological order:

Dsc08584.jpg < Sand graffiti on Waikiki Boardwalk Dsc08802.jpg < Waikiki Beach and Diamond Head Dsc07896.jpg < Robert vs The Volcano Dsc09096.jpg < Sea turtle on black sand beach Dsc09158.jpg Dsc07956.jpg < This morning's submarine I will not be checking email or using the free internet again, so expect cellphone blogging to continue through the end of the trip. Once I return I will (of course) make some large posts documenting the entire vacation. Aloha!