(Awesome) Non-Fiction Super SmartNote

This weeks Non-Fiction SmartNote is on an amazing topic. Something that I can regretfully say most kids have had experiences with as kids. Legos®! I return my focus this week back to Wired Magazine , a (according to Wikipedia) is "a full-color monthly American magazine and online periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics." I am mostly interested in it for the technology piece. Anyway, this structure is to date one of the largerst and heavyest at that and it specs of weighing 23-tons and using over 5.3 million Lego® bricks. If you are unaware of what an X-Wing is you should go watch some Star-Wars. But basically is a plane Luke Skywalker flew to blow up the death star.
Thats what it looks like in the movie but here is the Lego® build.

Its wing span is 43 feet! That is about 2 feet larger than the wing span of the X-Wing in the movie according to this website. I just found it amazing that people go into work every day to build something as impressive as this. Though you may not be a Star-Wars fan, you should still have some respect for the 32 people that built the X-Wing. I believe, from a news report on ABC that I saw you can sit inside this and it comes with its own R2-D2. They unveiled it this memorial day weekend in New York City and at the end of this year Luke's X-Wing will be shipped in 3 different pieces to LegoLand California where the west coast will be able to see it. 

Reflection

My reflection this month is about my sustained writing and how it compares to me say writing with the same opportunities last year. I believe that I have grown immensely in my writing and to say the least thats still not really that good. If I were presented with the same assignment, though last year, the piece that I would have wrote would not have even gotten near published. I think the book I am writing now stemmed off from a great idea of a few writers and now I have the creative freedom of writing it myself. I can't wait for it to be published and, if much advancement is made in my writing, my next reflection.