Hi guys, I never officially introduced myself, I just started posting random stuff and questions all of a sudden, so upon recommendation from some other members here, I decided to finally do it. I suppose I have never been in a "Dark Ages" since I am only 13 years old, it is hard not to have Legos somewhere in your life for less more than a couple months. My first sets were simple minibuilds with 2-3 minifigs and some of those Mars Mission and Jack Stone sets. Can't get enough of them! I found Brick Picker only about 2 months ago, right when I read the USA Today article that came to my hotel room door over winter break. When I read it, I was telling everyone that we visited how valuable Lego sets eventually were. Unfortunately, all they were interested in was how much money I had made, which was obviously $0 since I had just started the buying stage a couple months before this. Starting in September of 2012, I was spending hours on end, just searching all over eBay for any deal I could find. I literally spent at least 7 hours a day on a week end doing that. Sometimes I would run out of stuff to look at because I had seen everything! Now, I can't get enough of Brick Picker and Legos. My parents have started making me go to bed at around 10 pm at night because I spend too much time here, ogling at my boxed sets, or working on my Lego creations on my desk. As the title says, I am in Chicago, Illinois and would love to talk with anyone located in the Chicago area or anyone else who wants to talk about Lego-ing in general!!! Please either post below or PM me if you aren't comfortable with everyone seeing! Happy Bricking, comicblast

Comicblast.  I like your avatar.  I used to play ROTMG pretty hard.  Such an addicting game.  Keep up the good work.

Good job with school! Keep up the good work. You're going to build a good balance so when you hit high school having a part time job + school won't affect you too much since you've already been working since 13!

I hated Geometry.  I'm pretty sure I've never needed to know how to do a proof since I took that class.

I hated Geometry.  I'm pretty sure I've never needed to know how to do a proof since I took that class.

 

Proofs really help with developing abstract thought. It's not the proof itself that's useful but the thought process at arriving at said proof (whether it be deductive/inductive reasoning).

 

Never really understood what learning the "thought process" really meant till I graduated out of engineering and work as a database guy full time. I'm still trying to solve the mystery that is NULL (NULL cannot equal itself or anything else, yet can exist as an entity to symbolize nothingness, which is in a sense a quantifiable object, which should therefore equal something but it doesn't.. like wtf dude?) >_>

Proofs really help with developing abstract thought. It's not the proof itself that's useful but the thought process at arriving at said proof (whether it be deductive/inductive reasoning).

 

Never really understood what learning the "thought process" really meant till I graduated out of engineering and work as a database guy full time. I'm still trying to solve the mystery that is NULL (NULL cannot equal itself or anything else, yet can exist as an entity to symbolize nothingness, which is in a sense a quantifiable object, which should therefore equal something but it doesn't.. like wtf dude?) >_>

 

Did anyone follow? 

What sports do you play? If you don't mind me asking.

Did anyone follow? 

 

 

Here's an article for whoever's interested:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_(SQL)

Welcome... er.... back? Thanks for being an awesome site member, you're one of my Brickpicker ROLE MODELS OF JUSTICE!

 

Brick on and good luck in your future investments!

I'm still trying to solve the mystery that is NULL (NULL cannot equal itself or anything else, yet can exist as an entity to symbolize nothingness, which is in a sense a quantifiable object, which should therefore equal something but it doesn't.. like wtf dude?) >_>

Anyone remember that scene from Tron when Sark calls the one guy a "Null Unit"?

 

I remember thinking "where in my life am I going to actually use this?" with algebra. Well, after looking at and understanding what goes into coding and programming, I finally found my reason where it has an actual use! It took a while but I realized the real point of all that was more of learning the thought process itself.

Proofs really help with developing abstract thought. It's not the proof itself that's useful but the thought process at arriving at said proof (whether it be deductive/inductive reasoning).

 

Never really understood what learning the "thought process" really meant till I graduated out of engineering and work as a database guy full time. I'm still trying to solve the mystery that is NULL (NULL cannot equal itself or anything else, yet can exist as an entity to symbolize nothingness, which is in a sense a quantifiable object, which should therefore equal something but it doesn't.. like wtf dude?) >_>

The concept of NULL is like being a nihilist. Even a nihilist believes in something: nothing.

Man Comic Blast...this whole time I thought you were in your 50's. LOL Keep up the good work bud.

The concept of NULL is like being a nihilist. Even a nihilist believes in something: nothing.

That word through me for a loop. I haven't heard that in, like, forever. To add more bafflivity (I know that isn't a word), look at the concept of outer space. Essentially, there is nothing there which is why it lacks color yet at the same time there is. It's like dark matter.

So a nihilist is like a radical skeptic? Is it the same thing? I'm trying to remember the guys name (Descartes?) who proved skeptics ultimately had to believe in something with the "I think therefore I am" philosophy.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! RotMG is truly an addicting game. It has me addicted right now, and its the game that I was obsessed with over my break. A while back I had a 6/8 Rogue, and it was amazing. Then ammies were soulbound and UT's now, so the game kind of sucks. Blame Kabam!

I'll bet 99% of you are trying to figure out what I said in the last 20 words...

Proofs really help with developing abstract thought. It's not the proof itself that's useful but the thought process at arriving at said proof (whether it be deductive/inductive reasoning).

 

Never really understood what learning the "thought process" really meant till I graduated out of engineering and work as a database guy full time. I'm still trying to solve the mystery that is NULL (NULL cannot equal itself or anything else, yet can exist as an entity to symbolize nothingness, which is in a sense a quantifiable object, which should therefore equal something but it doesn't.. like wtf dude?) >_>

The concepts of NULL, zero, and nothingness aren't really understood by the human mind yet. We have incredibly abstract ideas about them, but typically when the thought gets hard we throw on a "special case" rider and call it a night.

 

Think about it this way. Today we understand and take for granted the that we live on a sphere. But not too long ago people simply couldn't wrap their brains around it. Sure, they believed it but they didn't understand it. The next iteration of human intellectual evolution will understand null, zero, etc and that's when some really cool science will happen.

Welcome back Comicblast! I ended up getting an A- in my Geometry class. Every time the teacher said the word "proof" the class let out a collective groan. I can legitimately say no one in our class liked proofs.

Guys, guys, guys...LEGO. Ignore the Geometry. I'd like to keep that out of my head as long as possible...

 

Nice to read you, DL. The highlights of our math class this year was watching Bigfoot videos every other day, and learning the "Swag Postulate" and the "YOLO-Swag Theorem", both of whom, I have no clue what they mean.

lol, sometimes it's just amazing that Math/Science became a universal language for philosophers to translate the natural world...

I would recommend these videos for your class, though they're more physics related :

Sampoong Department Mall Disaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3TMXDX8Nlc

Shinkansen Documentary (featuring RICHARD HAMMOND!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZjYL847KnI

Yeah. 13 years old it pretty impressive. I'm 27 and I never lost interest since I started building/collecting at age 5. I've been buying to resell legos for the last 5-6 years and in the last 3 years begun buying New sealed sets to flip.

What sports do you play? If you don't mind me asking.

This post took a while to get to, but I ran Cross Country for 2 years (only average on my team) and Track and Field (won 3rd place in Chicago for a medley.) It was really intense practicing 5 times a week!! Before running, I was on the swim team, and the debate team where I won city.

 

I also do recreational tennis, and play ping-pong quite often, nearly everyday.

This post took a while to get to, but I ran Cross Country for 2 years (only average on my team) and Track and Field (won 3rd place in Chicago for a medley.) It was really intense practicing 5 times a week!! Before running, I was on the swim team, and the debate team where I won city.

 

I also do recreational tennis, and play ping-pong quite often, nearly everyday.

Cool! I ran cross country for all three of my years in Junior High (placing in a somewhat decent 10-20th place out of about 150 people). Good job on winning City's for the debate team. My school is boss at badminton, we sweeped the City's all three years You definitely have my respect for practising 5 times a week for Track (I'll vote your post up when I can like posts again I think there is a limit on how many likes you can do a day). That's dedication!

Cool! I ran cross country for all three of my years in Junior High (placing in a somewhat decent 10-20th place out of about 150 people). Good job on winning City's for the debate team. My school is boss at badminton, we sweeped the City's all three years You definitely have my respect for practising 5 times a week for Track (I'll vote your post up when I can like posts again I think there is a limit on how many likes you can do a day). That's dedication!

I'll PM you to continue this conversation...