Well, when I was a kid (sorry, perspective: I'm 23 now, and I'm talking about when I was around 8-12 years old) I played with LEGO sets a lot (primarily Castle sets). I still have a lot of them left over, and I've recently bought some of the new Castle theme sets, and stuff from eBay. Oh, and I found BrickLink where I can buy individual pieces!

Ahem. As I was saying, when I was much younger, I played with Castle LEGO sets. And now, when I'm at home, if I need a coding break... I play with LEGO sets. I've come to the point where I can create realistic structures. And if I can't tear myself away from the computer, I can use a program like mlCAD to produce 3D representations of my LEGO structures, and produce step-by-step instructions for other people to use to build them!

So I play with LEGO when I need a break. It brings me back to my childhood and uses a different part of my imagination (from the part that I use when coding Perl, that is).

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

In reply to Re: (OT) How do you relax and "recharge"? by japhy
in thread (OT) How do you relax and "recharge"? by techcode

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