4 posts tagged “lego”
So, I surf the net a lot. You've heard it before. I do it generally when my mind needs to wander and slip the constraints of the workday grind. At home when I'm bored or can't sleep. Doesn't matter if it's politics, finance, science, cartoons, or anything. Just to get more imput, need more input... Well, there I was the other night, surfing around when I get this message from a buddy of mine whom I've not heard from in a while. He messages me to call him right then. I look over, it's two in the morning. Yeah, I can't sleep sometimes and so I stay up late surfing. Anyways, I call him and we talk for like two hours.
He sends me to this website of a guy located in our city who is doing something odd. Odd, not in the fashion of piercing his scrotum or getting surgical implants to look like Madonna, but odd in the fact that what he did, how he did it and what he did has rarely been done, yet apparently is something we ALL can do. This was so mind blowingly odd that I had to surf more details. And more details. Until I was dozens of sites deep in law books, the Constitution and thousands of more questions coming up. I still am doing research, but this particular thing is so odd, I know I'm taking a day off and go to this guy's trial coming up in August to see if the Government has anything to say about it. Yeah, you didn't think that something so odd wouldn't involve some sort of court case now did you? LOL
I know, you know, we all know, I get interested in paint flaking off the wall, a shiny new bauble or even a candle flickering in the breeze. SO what the hell would get me so interested like that? Something so odd that it just might work. In fact, has been working. This guy became his own private bank. Not banker, BANK. Say it with me now, B-A-N-K. How you ask? Well see the site for the fine details but basically, he took ownership of his Government issued bond account and filed several pieces of paperwork and became a private bank. He loans money. To people like you and me. Details on his website. The FBI said this was fraud, confiscated all his records and computers but have not charged him in over six months. I know! Private Bank...
I didn't initially know what to make of it really, except this guy either has huge brass balls or he wants a one way ticket to pound-em-in-the-ass prison. Judging by his grasp of the laws and other information on the site, this guy knows his stuff. Which makes me wonder. If this is real, and we can all become our own private banks, what the hell do we need banks for? Even scarier is the information about the US Monetary System, the National Debt and the fact that the whole Country is headed for insolvency. Doomsday crap? Maybe not the 2012 kind of hocus pocus, but very detailed information that doesn't just grab you by the nose and drag you to the point, they merely make the points and let you draw your own informed conclusion.
So, if you think I've gone off the farm, am nuts, then I put it to you to read through this guy's site, take in the information and do the research. Tell me where he is wrong. Tell me why what he is doing is a felony, crime, or fraud. I've looked for about two weeks now and for the life of me, this all makes very good sense, even if it goes against everything that we've ever been taught. Which is also his intent. Wake up people! LOL. And I don't mean anyone who has fallen asleep by now. Those people, I'm putting gum in their hair. Gum with spider eggs in it. LOL. So, again. Read it, then let's discuss it. I am really interested to hear what the general concensus is. Nutjob or Big Brass Balls. I started in the middle and at first wavered towards Nutjob, but after reading and researching, I am pushing over into the Ballsy. Extremely Ballsy...
Oh, before I forget, here is the LINK to his site. Check it out and seriously, as serious as I'll ever get online, let me know via comments, email, etc. what your thoughts are. Definitely curious... Alright, nothing further to see here, please go about your business elsewhere. LOL.
Following are the photo I am basing my creation on and two screen shots from the CAD program I am drawing it in. Finer detail to be added, this is just the basic layout of the structure to flesh out the concept. Currently the model is about three feet wide and about a foot tall, not including roof details. I really need to find out what building this is so I can find other photographs of it from different angles to see how I should proceed with the sidewall construction.
Ok, I am truly a First Class Geek. Bite me...
Click on the photographs above to embiggen them...
Remember this guy? The Lego Sculpture Set #3723? All the things I said and felt about how cool it was finally having him completed and then putting him up for sale? Well, my Sweetie just sold him. For $175. Holy Crap.....
So now I have been approached about building some more of these. Maybe even some different ones. All in the same huge sized format. Lego Sculptures. Statues. Monuments to Lego. So I did a little research into the subject to see what I was getting into. Because I'm like that, right?...
Holy crap... $175... Still trying to absorb that news...
And that is just the tip of the iceberg. I found out that some of these same sets have recently sold for over $300 each. And the specially designed and created ones are selling for beyond $350... Holy Crap... Again... Still...
In doing my research into creations that other people have already made I found dozens, examples below...
There were even pirate figures I found, both male pirate and female, but the photos were a bit wonky. From what I have been reading out on the web, there is a big fan base for these types of figures. Some other links are HERE and HERE and even STAR WARS figures too... I think I'm going to be busy and using a LOT of Lego Bricks. Especially since I have a few hundred pounds of white bricks sitting around and I really want to build a horse and rider set. Oh boy...
Better make some more space in the Lego Brick Room downstairs...
Ok, I may have gone a bit overboard with the whole Lego brick thing. It seems that my poor mailman has had to get a truss, my porch is sinking from the weight of all those boxes stacked upon it and the UPS guy is on a first name basis with my wife (Watch it Bub). Why am I going so gaga over Legos you may ask? Well, let me tell you a little story. You see, a long time ago, I made some real good money on computer stuff using one of those online auction sites. Good enough to make the mucho grande payments for my gas hungry mega-truckster every month. Almost a second job it paid so well. Only bad part is, computer stuff turned cheap, real fast. You had to move it or lose it, really. I know, I have several hundred pounds of stuff left over...
On the scene came something that sounded too good to be true. A website that was the Mecca for Legos. I found it while perusing for some Lego pieces-parts to complete a bulldozer set I had wanted since I was a kid. I had most of the pieces for it and didn't want to spend $125 to buy one from some guy who had one for sale still in the box. I mean, they cost $30 new. It was then, after visiting that website, I realized something. Legos do not depreciate. They only appreciate in value. Something that was $30 when I was a kid is now selling for $125? So I did some research and found out some interesting things. Not only can I play with all the Legos I have in inventory, but I could sell them and make money too!
I could sit with my veritable plethora of Legos, enjoy playing with them everyday and sell off small portions as required to fuel the purchase of more bulk sets and pieces through various avenues. I could effectively double my investment by buying bulk and selling by the piece. And that nasty problem of inventory? Who cares! I have a Bajillion (or close to it) Legos to play with. Oh Hell Yeah! Sign me up with a job I get to play all day AND make money too! Now, granted, things will start out a bit slow, but who knows. A couple hundred bucks a month worth of sales would be just about right. And in the meanwhile, I get to play with all the goodies to my hearts content. Uh, I mean, I get to watch the Grandkids play to their hearts content. <ahem>. It's a true Win-Win.
Now, I just need to get the dining room table cleared off so we can all sit down to dinner once again. Sorry Honey...
