Brick Boss Journal

Mark Wilcox

I talk about my life

Samantha Fish Is The Best Musician You Have Never Heard Of

I discovered Samantha Fish via Facebook viral. It’s hard to miss. Beautiful blonde woman in leather pants, red lipstick and holding a cigar box guitar. So you press play. And she takes over. I tell people she sings like Adele and plays guitar l...

Electric Scooters Will Be The End of Civilization

In the summer of 2018 there is a belief that electric scooters will be the solution to our travel problems. I first heard about them because I follow the venture capitalist who invested in one of the firms. Of course he is located in Santa Monica, Cal...

Electric Scooters Will Be The End of Civilization

In the summer of 2018 there is a belief that electric scooters will be the solution to our travel problems. I first heard about them because I follow the venture capitalist who invested in one of the firms. Of course he is located in Santa Monica, Cal...

Don't Let Me Near Your Boxed Up LEGO

There’s 3 distinct types of LEGO collectors. The first type is the hobbyist. This the type I am. I enjoy building the sets. In particular cars. Because I am a car guy even though in real life I so far only buy practical cars. But because I run a LEG...

The Whiteboard Artist

As a computer professional, I have long struggled to explain what I do for a living to my wife & my mom. Heck to be candid it's often been hard to explain my jobs to my geek friends. Becuase I've always had a unicorn role. Meaning that my job was on...

Quit Judging Me Netflix

I learned that if you binge watch too much at some point Netflix will complain to you. I grew up in the 1980s. And I watched a lot of TV. I once stayed up all night to watch all of the first night of Nick at Nite programs. I believe that’s when I...

A blog about nothing

I published my first webpage in spring 1996. That post wasn’t about anything. And this blog won’t be anything in particular. I call it Brick Boss Journal because I also run a website about LEGO called - you guessed it Brick Boss. I didn’t want to...