Cor blimey string a light apples and pears how's your father

Apparently the laziness of your average British laborer - 2nd only to the French, of course - is so legendary that Barney Main (aka SlyOwl) figured it should be summed up in Lego form.



It's certainly true that to keep your typical chain smoking ass-crack-showing Cockney layabout working at the maximum 20% capacity, you will have to feed a "cuppa" into him roughly every 15 minutes. Kind of like those electricity meter boxes of old. And he will almost certainly bring along an even more useless teenage oik to stand there and watch. And a dog will probably be involved too at some point. But none of this is unreasonable. Just don't ask them to actually do anything useful like turn on your cable TV for example (Tommy!), or they'll be rubbing their chins and talking about "not having the parts" or "come back a week next Thursday".

However, not everyone of the English persuasion is that bone idle - for in my tireless dedication to the Lego cause, I have this evening arrived in sunny soggy San Jose for the Bricks by the Bay convention (yes, that white box on the right). The LIVING BRICK base camp has been set up in my hotel room, and my outfit for the simultaneous Steampunk convention appears to have arrived unscathed. Prepare for a weekend of geeky wonderfulness, dear readers! I'll be providing as much daily coverage of both events as the brief periods of sobriety will allow.