Yes and a some quick googling suggests that my experience of only ever encountering Legos loose in a bucket has more to do with being a fourth child in the 1970s than with corporate strategy!
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Yes and a some quick googling suggests that my experience of only ever encountering Legos loose in a bucket has more to do with being a fourth child in the 1970s than with corporate strategy!
There’s a story there about how Lego flipped from selling simple blocks that imagination could turn into anything to selling kits full of exquisitely specialized blocks for specific, directed builds. I’ve never seen it written up, and it’s seldom even commented upon.
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
There’s a story there about how Lego flipped from selling simple blocks that imagination could turn into anything to selling kits full of exquisitely specialized blocks for specific, directed builds. I’ve never seen it written up, and it’s seldom even commented upon.
60 and worked in ‘84 and ‘85 for a company that made a real LAN for Kaypros. Why not? A Kaypro 2 cost around $2K and one with a 10MB hard drive north of $5K. And a single user would NEVER be able to fill a 10MB drive
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
60 and worked in ‘84 and ‘85 for a company that made a real LAN for Kaypros. Why not? A Kaypro 2 cost around $2K and one with a 10MB hard drive north of $5K. And a single user would NEVER be able to fill a 10MB drive
“Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him…”
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him…”
Counter: order of pierogies.. it’s for Alan Dershowitz AD: why did you tell him it’s for Alan Dershowitz?! is he gonna spit in it now? Counter: Don’t spit in Dershowitz’s pierogies
July 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Counter: order of pierogies.. it’s for Alan Dershowitz AD: why did you tell him it’s for Alan Dershowitz?! is he gonna spit in it now? Counter: Don’t spit in Dershowitz’s pierogies