LEGO

When I was a kid I loved to play with LEGO. It provided me with hours of fun for my wide imagination. I had an ice cream bucket or two filled with the stuff. I can even remember having a subscription to a LEGO newsletter.

All of my LEGO is now long gone and I have not played with any for many years. My kids were never interested in it so we do not have any in the house.

The other day on LifeHacker.com, the download of the day was BlockCAD. It is a free program for building LEGO-ish models! I was so impressed that I downloaded it right away. The author only wants payment in one real LEGO block, so I'm going to find one in a second hand store and send it to him.

The nice thing about this program is that you do not have to clean it up when you are done. You can save your model as a .bmp or .jpg and have it forever. No more skinned fingers, trying to take the pieces apart. Most importantly, no more stepping on loose pieces of LEGO with bare feet -- OUCH!