Steampunk'd...

Think I have a new interest and hobby: steam punk.

What, you haven't heard of this?

Then you must turn in your nerd card and go hang out with the jocks.

Steam Punk is basically an alternate history fantasy: go back to the 19th century when steam locomotives were hip and everything was made from wood and brass, and then extrapolate modern technology based on that (instead of silicon, plastic, petroleum and nuclear).

If you've got a fascination for turn of the century stuff, this is for you. Old mechanical typewriters instead of computer keyboards. Brass knobs and dials instead of boring plastic buttons and lcd screens. Roll top desks. Tubing, valves, and mechanical marvels.

I've always looked upon this time in history with fascination and feeling like I should have been born a hundred years earlier. I read Jules Verne. I loved the Wild Wild West.

Now imagine blending Steam Punk with: LEGO And Star Wars. I think I just died and went to nerd heaven. If I believed in such things. And if I did, it would be something like that.