Constantine Hannaher : Dispatches

09 March 2010

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:59 GMT

For completeness’ sake: the name of the color of the interior of this Focus may be medium graphite.

Welcome VIC card customer! Why am I not surprised that Harris Teeter has a comprehensive selection of flavors for Kettle chips?

08 March 2010

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:01:59 GMT

Boo, nothing of mine here: The Cover version LEGO Pool at Flickr. I could probably make a contribution or two. The idea that Flickr has replaced Brickshelf and Lugnet still takes some getting used to.

The self-publishing author (previously) is planning to do it again.

07 March 2010

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:52:59 GMT

The post at a blog about military-themed LEGO® constructions titled A fist full of Hummers includes a nod to my derivative work in the 6-wide arena. My 8-wide contribution to the genre which goes unmentioned was built almost 6 years ago. The author of the blog post is too kind for this construction bereft of any innovative building techniques: most of the trailer and undercarriage is adapted from an earlier postal vehicle and the landing gear is of similar vintage. One child at the meeting yesterday was sure something on the tractor-trailer had to be operational but eventually accepted that there was not.

Steve Benen and commenters update the political dictionary. I might add: Sunday talk show is a television ritual where Republicans get to say whatever they want and Democrats are vigorously interrupted when their answers aren’t agreeable to the host.

06 March 2010

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:23:59 GMT

The local bus system has a new contest without any hint of what happened to the last contest (that is, no winner to the photo contest was ever announced).

I exaggerate only slightly when I state that half of the travel time to today’s WAMALUG meeting was spent stopped on Maple Avenue. There is consensus on which of the four proposals for traffic signals which I displayed there should prevail.

05 March 2010

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:43:59 GMT

The S.S. United States (previously) may be sold for scrap. Nothing which would be relevant to my memories remains aboard, so I’m not particularly moved by the appeals to save it.

04 March 2010

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:57:59 GMT

The event at which WamaLTC had a display last Saturday was in support of the museum’s educational offerings and the care of its artifact collection. The Alexandria Times (newly shrunken to tabloid size) had in this week’s issue a photograph taken at the event, but it was of the children at the Thomas the Tank Engine play table.

I asked myself What would Tony do? too late today.

The eight gigabytes of RAM in my computer doesn’t seem nearly as impressive once I realize that the most basic iMac these days has four as standard. Tempus fugit.

03 March 2010

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:36:59 GMT

Virginia Railway Express has changed the profile pic at its Facebook Page to some artwork that depicts the new locomotive planned for deployment later this year. It’s not nice of VRE to try to send the mobile version of the site to SeaMonkey.

The Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area LEGO® Train Club is pleased to provide participants in its displays the opportunity to purchase apparel embroidered with the WamaLTC brand.

02 March 2010

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:16:59 GMT

If I had a dime for every time I’m met by a blank look when I suggest looking at a browser’s location bar… I could buy a copy of one of those dead-tree newspapers people are buying less of these days. Web developers continue to react to the bewildering inability of, er, ordinary people to understand what they’re up to when they use the Internet.

Newest inductee to the set of the thousand views.

01 March 2010

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:10:59 GMT

Yeah, I got nothin’. Announcement from WamaLTC later this week. WAMALUG meeting this Saturday. From the gallons of Technic have arisen a few proposals for traffic signals, whee.

28 February 2010

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:32:59 GMT

A search for the subdomain finds a variety of organizations making use of a Lands’ End Business Outfitters company store to offer embroidered apparel. NASA goes them one better by also providing a link for its Solar Dynamics Observatory Team Members to a DESIGNbyME LEGO® model of the spacecraft that launched earlier this month.

AFOL: A Blocumentary. I regret the necessity Akro-Mils saw to abandon the polystyrene type of small parts storage, because clarified polypropylene just isn’t the same. Tepid response from the MetaFilter commentariat.

27 February 2010

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:20:59 GMT

The LEGO® 10211 Grand Emporium was expected last week, then next Monday, maybe in three weeks. I’ve yet to purchase any of the Modular Buildings.

26 February 2010

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:40:59 GMT

How to create a Quartz filter and use Preview's Save As... command to reduce the file size of PDFs ... [more]

25 February 2010

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:56:59 GMT

I’ve complained about what it’s like to listen to C-SPAN but that’s nothing—imagine what it’s like for the President today at the health care summit to listen to these same people for hours and all he can do is rest his cheek in his hand because he can’t turn the radio off.

24 February 2010

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:54:59 GMT

Silver Eagle Bus Manufacturing seeks to keep the legacy of the buses built for Trailways going. I rode intercity buses (probably Trailways) on round trips between Springfield and Charlottesville several times in the early eighties but never thought to photograph the ride. A project card inspired by the Model 05 has been completed, but if there’s a way to model tag and drive axles in LEGO® I haven’t figured it out. This Saturday’s display has an admission fee only for the children.

Because Excuse me didn’t occur to me: Do you have a plan?