Even when I enjoyed mucking around with Lego (many moons ago), I was never this into it. The rubik's cube solver is most impressive :-)
I had seen the Lego desk before and had been contemplating construction of a tower case in Legos. The two problems with that would be that A: I think it's been done before and B: I don't think I could pass that off as marketable-job-skill-honing to the SOTF.