Posts tagged “toys”

Build Your Own R2-D2

Build Your Own R2-D2

Everyone should have an astromech droid.

Original BlasTech DL-44

Original BlasTech DL-44

A few years ago I wrote about how foolish it would be for me to spend $499.00 on a replica BlasTech DL-44. (I really did consider it.) I guess that means it would be really, really irresponsible to lay down $200,000.00 for the actual one. via kottke.org

#FridayFive: Awesome Toys

View the Friday Five from November 29th, 2013

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag

They probably would have sold a lot more of these if they’d had them twenty years ago. I can’t remember the last time I slept in a sleeping bag, and I certainly don’t see it happening any time soon. I would have thought this was awesome when I was 11, though. “This high-quality sleeping bag

CrashBonsai

More proof that people are strange (in case you needed some): There is a website dedicated to selling toy cars which have suffered toy accidents by crashing into toy (bonsai) trees. The art pieces go for between $75 – $150. People are — apparently — grabbing them like hotcakes. CrashBonsai

BlasTech DL-44

BlasTech DL-44

On Han Solo’s blaster

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.