Monthly Archives: December 2014

Seeing the world in studs: a Lego journey: Lego Digital Designer and a Nanosfree on the Nanowater model

Posted on 31 December 2014 by dlhitzeman

For those of you interested in designing Lego models who want the freedom of not tying up all your bricks while you design, I highly recommend Lego Digital Designer. It’s a great, free program from Lego that contains its entire virtual catalog of parts. It lets you save images and generate building instructions. With additional, … Continue reading Lego Digital Designer and a Nanosfree on the Nanowater model Continue reading →

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Cobbled together from random parts: Dry erase paint work table surface

Posted on 31 December 2014 by dlhitzeman

I have a few old, cheap folding tables I use as work tables in my studio. While working on another project, I discovered I had a surplus of dry erase paint, so I decided to pain the table surfaces with the paint as an experiment. The surface turned out better than I expected. It took … Continue reading Dry erase paint work table surface Continue reading →

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Seeing the world in studs: a Lego journey: So you’re and adult and you play with Lego..?

Posted on 30 December 2014 by dlhitzeman

It’s the almost inevitable question adult fans of Lego eventually have to answer: you’re an adult, but you play with a kid’s toy? It’s easy to try to reply with all sorts of philosophical and technical defenses of why it’s not even really a fair question and how what one is doing is not playing … Continue reading So you’re and adult and you play with Lego..? Continue reading →

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Food: The problem with making your own food…

Posted on 16 December 2014 by dlhitzeman

The problem with making your own food is that you actually have to make it. It’s amazing to me how, in certain ways, lazy we moderns are compared to our ancestors or people living in parts of the world without our standard of living. Granted, all sorts of measures say we’re the most productive humans […] Continue reading →

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Food: We’ve all gotta eat

Posted on 11 December 2014 by dlhitzeman

It turns out we’ve all got to eat, and it’s probably no surprise to anyone who knows me that I have a few things to say about the undertaking. Hence this food blog. My goal is to focus on the preparation of food from locally grown, sustainable ingredients as well as the science, history, and […] Continue reading →

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