The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday November 15th, 2009 at the Rondo Community library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. Please check the board at the desk to find out which meeting rooms we will be in this time.

Michael Chabon’s recent collection of essays, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, has an essay on his experiences with, and reflections on, LEGO titled “To the LEGOland Station”. Resident TwinLUG philosopher Roy T Cook wrote to Nannan at Brothers-Brick asking if they knew about it and were going to post on it, and Nannan suggested that Roy write a short synopsis. Being the pretentious academic that he is, Roy wrote a long review and a short synopsis. Nannan suggested that Brothers-Brick post the short synopsis, with a link to the longer review. Thus, here is  the entire review:

Manhood for AFOLs

The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday October 18th, 2009 at the Rondo Community library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. Please check the board at the desk to find out which meeting rooms we will be in this time.

The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday September 20th, 2009 at the Rondo Community library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. Please check the board at the desk to find out which meeting rooms we will be in this time.

The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday August 16th, 2009 at the Rondo Community library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. Please check the board at the desk to find out which meeting rooms we will be in this time.

The LEGO Group has announced the new LEGO Ambassadors and we were ecstatic to see that Stacy Sterling has been accepted as one of the new Ambassadors. We’re sure she’ll do a great job over the next year and hope to congratulate her in person at one of the next meetings.

The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday July 19th, 2009 at the Rondo Community library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. Please check the board at the desk to find out which meeting rooms we will be in this time.

This month will likely be lots of discussion about Brickworld and some talk about what to do next year along with the usual fun and discussion all about LEGO bricks. Come join us!

It was a proud day for us on Sunday of Brickworld 2009 when the display area opened and sitting right next to the first ever Micropolis Collaborative Display at Brickworld was the award for “Best Group Layout”!

The display would have been nothing if not for the great work done by everyone who contributed a module to the display:

• Tom Anderson
• Max Braun
• Roy Cook
• Garth Danielson
• Gary Dokulil
• Christopher Doyle
• Alice Leber-Cook
• Matt Holland
• Bill Hutchinson
• Bryan Kasprzyk
• Tim Goddard (Rogue Bantha)
• Lonn Moe
• Joe Meno
• Nathan Stohlmann
• Christopher Van Allen
• David Van Allen

We would like to thank all of the blogs that posted links to the Bad Day contest and especially all of the posts from MicroBricks leading up to the convention.

We would also like to thank everyone who stopped by the display all through Brickworld and talked to us about the project. Watching people see the display the first time and start to notice all of the details was a privilege in itself, but being able to talk to some of you about the project and how it was put together was reward enough for putting it together.

We plan to be back next year with a bigger and better display and hope that anyone who was inspired by this year’s display will bring their own modules to contribute!

TwinLUG is bringing Micropolis to BrickWorld in a big way with a collaborative build that is likely to be the largest Micropolis assembly yet. Be sure to look for it in the Event Hall, and it’s not too late to bring your own module to add to the display!

If you are planning on bringing a module please be sure to carefully read through the specifications to ensure that it will fit with the rest of the modules in the build. If you need inspiration, be sure to have a look at the results of the Bad Day In Micropolis Contest that was hosted by our friend Chris at ReasonablyClever.com or any of the images on Flickr tagged with “Micropolis”.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone next week in Chicago!

The next full TwinLUG meeting will be 1:30PM Sunday June 14th, 2009 at the Rondo Community library in St Paul, MN. The library is located at 461 N. Dale Street. Please check the board at the desk to find out which meeting rooms we will be in this time.

This month is likely to be all about BrickWorld preparation and should have some interesting stuff on display.