Posts tagged “toys”

Easy Christmas Gifts for Parents

Easy Christmas Gifts for Parents

Some quick and (mostly) inexpensive gifts for parents

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

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.