As a delayed present from one of my sisters, I got the LEGO X-wing using the gift voucher she gave me for Christmas. It is a mighty set, doing all the kinds of things I tried to do in my own various interpretations of the craft, both when I was younger and even more [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
No, there are not more people alive today than have ever died.
12 March, 2008 – 2:48am
Today, 12th March 2008, there are approximately 6,793,052,354 people alive right now.
According to ‘How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?’ by Carl Haub, in mid-2002, there were 6,215,000,000 people alive and the total number of people ever born was 106,456,367,669.
Assuming the total number of people alive doubles every 50 years, as Isaac Asimov supposed [...]
Time Lapse Carcassonne
11 March, 2008 – 7:52am
This Saturday just gone, I played Carcassonne with some friends and made a time-lapse video of our game, as we had discussed the week before:
( Time Lapse Carcassonne (YouTube, 18 seconds )
If you like, you can also download a much higher quality version:
( Time Lapse Carcassonne (5.44MB QuickTime Movie) )
2 hours and 45 minutes compressed [...]
LEGO Gay Deceiver
4 March, 2008 – 7:40am
In researching my next big LEGO project, I remembered the Serenity model I saw a while ago and so looked around a bit more on that website. In doing so, I came across a model very much like one I would build myself, a spaceship based on the Gay Deceiver from Robert Heinlein’s books.