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One time I almost got sued by a stamp company
A while back I got a newspaper ad about a deal where you can get 50 old timey mint condition stamps for only two dollars. They were all between 1 to 5 cent stamps from the1950s I think. I thought it was a good deal if for nothing else than for the novelty of it. So…
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The Scale Issue with Some LEGO Sets
The LEGO Group just revealed their latest Ideas set, the Red London Telephone Box. But it seems like public reception isn’t too great. Granted every newly revealed LEGO set will have all sorts of criticism, but I feel like this set has made me realize a somewhat prevalent problem that has plagued many sets that…
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Why the “I have the high ground!” scene is so funny
I just want to talk about this scene for a moment. Because it is such a perfect mess of subverting expectations in just the right way to create a comedic masterpiece without really meaning to. I know there has been an immeasurable amount of memes that have spawned from the prequel trilogy, but this one…
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What is Natural?
I have a bone to pick with the concept of the word natural, for several reasons actually. My gripe with the word natural initially came about from my mother nagging at me about using consuming “un-natural” products. For example, pharmaceutical medicine, foods that don’t have the organic label slapped on them, non-sugar sweeteners, and much…
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Month Day Year
I’ve lived in China, Europe, and the United States. So I’ve experienced all three forms of the date format. Which would be YYYY/MM/DD, DD/MM/YYYY, and MM/DD/YYYY respectively. Europeans tend to have a superiority complex about their systems for most thing, and rightfully so in most cases such as the Metric system. However, their date format…
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I made some custom LEGO bricks
A while back I was looking through the LEGO brick catalogue and noticed there’s a lot of bricks I think should exist, but currently do not yet exist. So I decided to make some myself. Here’s a couple bricks I designed that in my opinion could have some great usage in building sets and models.…
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Alex tries to explain squatters rights
This will be the beginning of a new thing I’m gonna do called “Alex tries to explain things”. You ever just lay awake in bed at night trying to fall asleep, only to have a random question pop up in your mind like “do atoms have colors?” Then you proceed to spend the next few hours…
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About Dragon Ball Evolution
So I was reading up on Dragon Ball Evolution and now I’m even more mad. Because in an alternate universe, it could have potentially gone waaay better. It’s just a long list of things that went wrong, one after the other. Toriyama had initially stated that he would have loved for Goku to be portrayed by…
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Can you find your phone number inside of pi
A while back I saw this post by Reddit user xiadmabsax create this terrible phone number input UI. It’s part of an intentionally bad UI design challenge. It’s a funny concept, but it got me thinking about if it was even possible for pi to contain every combination of phone numbers. At first glance it…
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