Fight For Your Mind » Work http://fightforyourmind.com My Google Reader Shared Feed Regurgitated Mon, 21 May 2012 19:50:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Lego celebrates 60 years of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog with 2,048-piece kit http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/02/lego-celebrates-60-years-of-the-mercedes-benz-unimog-with-2048-p/ http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/02/lego-celebrates-60-years-of-the-mercedes-benz-unimog-with-2048-p/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:01:00 +0000 Noah Joseph Continue reading →]]> Filed under: , , ,

Mercedes-Benz Unimog by Lego
Mercedes-Benz Unimog by Lego - Click above for high-res image gallery

Can we build it? Yes we can! Before the Obama campaign pilfered the slogan, it belonged to the kid's show "Bob the Builder." But it could just as easily be applied to Legos. Or the perhaps even the Mercedes-Benz Unimog.

The versatile utility vehicle celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, and to help celebrate, the Danish brick-toy company has come out with an intricate working reproduction in 1:12.5 scale. The Lego Technic Unimog packs an unprecedented 2,048 parts - the most in any Lego kit to date - and packs all the working elements you'd expect to find in the real full-size thing: It's got a winch, a pneumatic crane, a reproduction of the engine with moving pistons and the whole shebang.

The kit is based on the U400 model and goes on sale in Europe in August with a list price of 190 Euros - about $275 by today's rates. In other words, a lot less than the 380,000 Unimog owners have paid for theirs over the course of the vehicle's six decades of production. Follow the jump for the press release and check out the trio of high-res images in the gallery.

Also, consider this the number one item on our end-of-the-year holiday wishlists...

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1) an utter distaste for all things work related, or 2) a great appreciation of hard work and a true sense of the value of a dollar.

Most of the people in our impromptu discussion fell in the 2nd category. First jobs which involved very hard work with a minimal amount of pay, made us appreciate the value of a dollar, and generally resulted in us being thankful for the jobs we have today whether they require us to use or minds or our backs.

I would like to make it very clear that I highly value manual labor and in no way diminish the need for work which involves our backs and hands. Having spent innumerable hours picking fruit, digging ditches, building fences, re-roofing houses, thinning forests, cutting wood and the like, I completely appreciate the need and benefit of what I consider hard work. But I also appreciate that God has blessed us with minds that we can use to earn a living, create and invent, paint, write poetry and the like without ever breaking a sweat.

In the end we do what we love to do, and what we are good at. One writes beautiful prose, another assembles a wall of brick and mortar, and another creates a song that we cannot get out of our head. All of these require talent, training and a mind. Thank God for our minds.

What do you do for a living today? What was your first job? Did your first job(s) make you love or hate work? Is it time for a change of work, venues, or careers?

 

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