Doug

Sorry let me say that properly for this forum: @joshhall, I sent you some pics a while ago of the Lego work I done and now it needs posted but I can’t because I’m on trail. Can you post it so yinz can admire Castle Eveningland?

Ok ok you flushed me out. I’m hiking the Colorado Trail (taking a rest day in Fairplay CO). I hope to try to finish all 485 miles before I run out of time but it’s iffy bc I only have 32 days. Got married last year. Got tenure. Working on a book about human rights discourse. (I actually wrote an anecdote about the LUG in there!!!) Been getting ser…[Read more]

So I just read the elephant forum and it made me laugh and miss you all even more. When they asked me to do a commissioned build here, I didn’t know what price to offer. So I called Jessica Rigney (Imagine’s former manager and current mother) and asked what they charged for a build. She gave me numbers that, um, surprised me (and the admin who…[Read more]

It’s medium dark flesh (Lego calls it Medium Nougat). I was shocked that they have just about every basic element in that color! I had to go and look at another building in an obscure corner of campus that they said had the same color of brick. There are shockingly few color photos of the building for something that burned in 1970!

@Rich: yes,…[Read more]

Great idea: https://youtu.be/On9m3D4ULeM

Oh, it won’t let me upload the video (too big a file). Here’s a pic of the original building for comparison.

I’ll be there, obv. I’m bringin’ my buddy Andrew with me (he’s hosting me while I’m staying in Pittsburgh). It will be great to see some SCLUG peeps! A special request: anyone have a copy of Creationary?

BTW, I reserve the right to refer to this MOC as the “hwhipped” cafe–Stewie-Griffin-style.

Are they just regular coffee cups? I find it hard to believe that you didn’t have 16 regular Lego mugs sitting around already…

Love this build though. What green is that?! It’s such a nice choice there.

Can members emeritus still buy one? Oy, that orange-ish yellow. It’s hideous, haha, but it’s perfect. No one will have any trouble finding LUG members in a crowd!

All this work and no one pointed out that Benjamin Franklin was never president?!

I thought about writing him a note re: pluralizing Lego when I responded to his interview questions. Now I wish I had.
Also, regarding this sentence:

“But they usually get excited, their face lights up and they ask what I build and can they see it,’ says Cloud, 28, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate student who lives in Lawrenceville.

I r…[Read more]

Sigh, I look TERRIBLE in yellow.

Just FYI, I won’t be there tomorrow. At one point the doodle said I would. Both shifts look to be covered without me.

As far as teardown goes, I’d prefer the earlier option. I want to minimize the number of times I need to drive to WashPa. Also, regarding this Sunday, Dec 8. I am signed up for the full day, but actually need to leave at 3 sharp to make it to a volleyball game. I want to confirm that someone (and I think Ben is signed up) will be there for the…[Read more]

I’m also building a set of three of the rowhouses (from the Pet Shop set) in three different colors (sand blue, medium blue and blue) and would love to include them somewhere if there’s room. Here’s what I managed to get done yesterday on the project…

Oh, and did I mention that these houses are ALREADY MILS COMPATIBLE?!

I will be getting there as soon as I can, current goal: noon. I’m bringing my two houses, my church, all my trees, and cars. I’m going to try to MILS my houses today. I wanna contribute as much detail/landscaping as possible. Can we make sure we have that box of fences from the LUG brick? I have a use for it…

Which day are we setting up, Saturday or Sunday?

Just for the record, I don’t think Tim picked a fight with that guy; the Greenberg guy was being pretty confrontational, and I think the Greengerg guy recognized that he was in the wrong, not Tim, because he later saw fit to apologize and they both shook hands. It was a minor thing, really. I think this display went well overall. My view at this…[Read more]