Last weekend I took a quick trip to Houston, TX to see an Elton John concert. It's a bit of a trek to see a concert from a tour that's coming to Boston in July, but I had an ulterior motive: to bring my father. Hatching a Plan The whole adventure started a few years …
Lego Titanic – Day 7 & 8: The END!
https://youtu.be/vP7WV_tu2Kk I finished up my Lego Titanic the day after Christmas. I had a few bags left containing the upper deck of the stern as well as the engines. The build of the stern itself was pretty interesting due to all of the curves involved. I enjoyed building it up to a flat surface onto …
Lego Titanic – Day 5 & 6
https://youtu.be/TTFvU_Rod90 I am nearing the end of my journey to build the Lego Titanic. I'm deep into hour 16 and have made it to the last portion of the back section. Yesterday I finished up the first unit, which houses the fourth funnel, the aft Grand Staircase, the reciprocating engine bays, and the beginning of …
Lego Titanic – Day 4.5
https://youtu.be/EERbJbaM5SQ This is a combined post from yesterday and the first part of today. I've made it to hour 11 and completed the second section of the ship! Overall this section has been more challenging, not because of the techniques involved, but because it's kind of... boring. The two units are rectangular and generally symmetrical. …
Lego Titanic – Day 3
https://youtu.be/qVp2jXL6w0c Building Lego Titanic in my rockin' Minesweeper Ugly Christmas Sweater... I wasn't sure if I'd have time on a weeknight to work on the Titanic right before the holiday but I lucked out and had about an hour and a half. I made it to hour eight and made a dent into the second …
Lego Titanic – Day 2
https://youtu.be/SsgP3eHJ0po I've entered hour 6 and I'm done with the first large section that includes the bow, the bridge, and the first funnel. This represents about 40% of the ship and completes the first box of the set! This section is actually made up of two units that snap together. Yesterday I worked on the …
Lego Titanic – Day 1
https://youtu.be/StPwEm_F8L4 I bought Lego's 9,000 piece 1:200 scale Titanic recently and have started to put it together. So far I've spent 2 hours on it and made it through four sets of bags. So far it's been great – the instructions are easy to follow, the bags are well organized, and it is taking a …
Holiday Games
It's fall and that means it's time to start stocking up on video games for the winter! There's no better time as most platforms have a fall sale followed by a winter sale plus some random sales in-between. I tend to buy most of my games from Steam, but occasionally seek out other digital platforms …
Lightroom Update for M1 Addresses My Issues
I wrote recently about my experiences running Lightroom on my M1 MacBook Air. Overall it was more performant than my 2016 MacBook Pro, but I often encountered slowdowns with brush edits and had to close most other applications to make my 8 GB RAM usable. Adobe released an M1-native update to Lightroom in June and …
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My iPhone 13
Apple announced the iPhone 13 lineup last week and pre-orders were available this past Friday. From my first iPhone 3GS in 2009 I've been on the off-cycle, buying Apple's "s" model and keeping it for two years each time. I didn't buy the hot new designs (iPhone 4, 5, 6, 7) but the next iteration …
Relatively Ambitious 