Lone Locust Productions

Month: August 2008

  • Legoland

    No, we didn’t go to Legoland.

    However, while visiting the Apple Store at Chandler Fashion Mall I learned that there is a Lego Store in the mall. How cool is that?

    So, as James is really hot on Lego Indiana Jones, we thought it might he time to graduate the kids up to Legos.

    After two trips we manger to get them a massive Indiana Jones set, which, quite honestly, was too complicated for the kids, a couple of small figurine sets (Batman and Indiana Jones), a 50th anniversary set which was much more general, like the sets I had when I was a kid and finally, since we had no good place to play with them, a Lego table.

    Legos are still cool, but I still can’t produce a reasonable facsimile of the starship Enterprise.

    Hmmm, wonder if we have enough blue to build a TARDIS?

  • Library Science

    Library science has always fascinated me. First, because I love books, second because I’m an extremely disorganized person.

    It always seemed simple enough – far too simple to be something you actually need a college degree in.

    Now, finally, I understand why!

    You’ve got to be trained professional to install fish tanks in the Library and then put books in them!

    Brilliant! That would never have ocurred to me. I’m too stuck in the whole, “books on bookshelves” paradigm.

  • Last of the Dodos

    How sad! Did I today see the last of it’s kind?

  • Moffat on a Hat Trick

    And this couldn’t be any more richly deserved…

    Future Doctor Who Executive Producer Steven Moffat has scooped his third Hugo Award in a row. Blink, written by Steven and directed by Hettie Macdonald, beat off strong competition from Paul Cornell’s two-parter Human Nature/The Family of Blood and Catherine Treganna’s Torchwood episode Captain Jack Harkness to be voted Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. [From BBC – Doctor Who – News]

    …although, if those episodes listed were his only competition, a copy of the phone book could have won.

  • 007 on Top

    007 on top

    I happened to hit the wrong sort order today on my iTunes, bringing the “most played” songs to the top. I must say, I was a bit surprised at the results.

    I can only imagine that I must have put a 007 playlist on and left for vacation.

    Only one non-007 song cracked the top 35 – the theme from the Return of the Saint. OK, I know why that one’s up there.

  • Fresh & Easy Chopsticks

    We just picked up some California rolls at Fresh & Easy and the package comes with these disposible, collapsable chopsticks.

    Half plastic, half wood – how green can that be?

    Update: Here’s a picture of “green” chopsticks. 🙂