Maker Faire is back!

The last Bay Area @makerfaire was in 2019 and it was announced at the time that was going to be the last one ever due to funding issues…

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2019

Views from Maker Faire Bay Area 2019. For photos of the LEGO exhibit I was part of, see my blog at brickpile.com

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Let’s build!

Let’s build! What’s in your brickpile? See my LEGO stuff at brickpile.com

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Partial Solar Eclipse 2012-05-20

There was an annular solar eclipse on May 20, 2012, but it was only partial where I was. I was at Maker Faire Bay Area, tearing down my LEGO club’s exhibit, during the eclipse, and I took a break to snap a few pictures.

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Moving pages to Brickpile

Prompted by the imminent shutdown of brickshelf.com I am moving all my LEGO entries from this site to my LEGO blog, brickpile.com. Although I copied all my photos from this site onto flickr.com some time ago, I never updated the blog entries to use those images until now. Since I’m updating them, I might as well move them to the LEGO blog. As I move each entry there, I will add rewrite rules to this site so that when anyone tries to visit the old location it will be redirected to the new one.

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Half Way to Three Score and Ten

That’s right, I turned 35 today. I’m officially middle aged if you go by the biblical quota (I don’t). I don’t feel that old though.

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New Blog for LEGO, and Changes Are Afoot

I’ve started a new blog just for my LEGO®-related posts. You can find it at www.brickpile.com. I post new entries there at least once a week, which is a lot more often than I ever did here.

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Poem: Clink!

“Clink!”
by Bill Ward
1993

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