Chinkes At Home

Category: Family

stuff about my wife, kids, and extended family

  • Rectangle Spaceship

    I was looking at Pintrest and this shape stood out to me. I don’t think it was actually a spaceship but some futuristic product. The shape was super cool and I thought of how I could make it with LEGO. Additionally, I was playing around with how to connect the two parts, I wound up using clips between the top and bottom. The bottom also has some Technic beams to hold it’s structure together as it’s mostly just the skin. I wound up revising it quite a few times to get what I wanted.

    Inside, there is a fold-down bunk and a shelf for storage. Behind the door is a rack for a gun.

    The color scheme was dictated by the red window frames and the yellow curves at the bottom. I tried to not suggest any Mc Donald’s shapes but not sure how far away from suggesting a future fast-food delivery ship I got…

  • Lucky 13 Racing

    Lucky 13 Racing

    I got the kids an Xbox for Christmas and started enjoying Forza Horizon 4 myself. The driving is simplistic with a joystick but I don’t want to commit enough to justify a $400 steering wheel for the console.

    That said, the game has a fantastic way of adding your own graphics to the vehicles. I picked the bright pink for no reason, I suppose. The Boy disavows it and the Girl thinks pink is too girly, so to annoy both of them? Anyway with that out of the way, I was able to add my racing number all over like Colnago labels his bikes. The Ford was the first, as I got new cars or trucks I added more yellow graphics to the sides.

  • More on Gerrymandering

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/03/fixing_gerrymandering_affects_who_is_sent_to_office_and_how_they_govern.html

    It seems like changing who you represent can change how you represent. I’ll try to keep an eye on this stuff and report back on what I find.