180000 Miles on the Odometer

Space truck hits 180000 miles somewhere in the hills of West Virginia.

Posted on Thursday, January 18th, 2007. Tags: .


LEGO Bros

My brother has built an Exoforce Claw Crusher – it’s the biggest Lego kit he’s built yet, and it is pretty cool. He took some pictures of it:

Claw Crusher Claws

I also made a fancy computer rendering of the alternate docking cradle I made for the Star Wars B-Wing kit (unlike the default cradle, it makes the cockpit reasonably accessible by placing it at ground level):

B-Wing Cradle Rendering

Look here for more information on LDraw Mac shenanigans with Bricksmith, L3P, LGEO, and POV-Ray at a future date.

Posted on Monday, January 15th, 2007. Tags: .


He’s No Dopamine

My good friend Dan has had a scholarly article published in an online peer-reviewed journal, Behavioral and Brain Functions. He is the principal author of “Examining impulsivity as an endophenotype using a behavioral approach: a DRD2 TaqI A and DRD4 48-bp VNTR association study.” I helped a wee bit.

Posted on Thursday, January 11th, 2007. Tags: .