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Hello! That's cool. Particularly the chalice is great. I wonder if I will be copying this design for some soccer trophy... Bye Jojo (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Renderer Questions
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(...) Tonight I'll modify the .MPD file and hide everything on top of the door and just do a final-step render... then I'll post a picture. There's definitely something wrong and it looks like the door is off by 90 degrees, but with a bunch of stuff (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem creating .pov using LGEO parts in L3PAdd-on
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(...) Having got the .pov file created I did have to include a Library path to the LGEO.inc files folder. Once that was set I managed to get a render in 3.1 but got more errors in 3.5, something to do with version levels. I also got a strange (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Battersea Power Station
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Is there anybody out there...? Well, wrong album, however. Last night in the chat at 1000steine.de we chatted about this and that, it went from "Dark Side Of The Spoon" (Ministry) over "Atom Heart Mother" to "Battersea Power Station". I researched a (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Poe story for Halloween: Cask of Amontillado
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(...) Very nicely done. Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Why is it pushed back? Was:Burlington is being shipped (in Europe, that is)
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We already had several copies of the real BNSF set present on LEGOWORLD 2004. One is shown here: (URL) picture by AndreasTretbar. The Clikits fragment seen in the back of the picture isn't a poster or banner, but a realy nice bedcover + pillow case (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.clikits, FTX)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés samedi 23 octobre 2004
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouvelles brèves ---...--- * La semaine du train miniature * - 23 octobre 2004 (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Lego spare parts box pictures from the 1950's
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EBAY recently had some German seller selling a lot of 50's and 60's Lego parts and spare parts boxes. Here is a nice picture (go to the larger picture below) of Lego spare parts boxes from 1955-59. (URL) 2 boxes in the bottom row are from 1955-56. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: In the next 36 hours a lot of Lego auctions will end!
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(...) Hi! I write today just for remember you that this evening (from 18.00 CET) my auctions will end! Don't miss them, you could make great deals! See you soon! Luca (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Cloud Cruiser police vehicle
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(...) Thanks Kenn! (...) the (...) is (...) part (...) it (...) Cool! Because that's exactly what I was aiming for (no pun intended!). The concept was a police vehicle for the skies, making sure that everybody behaves themselves in their hoverpods (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: 4+ Pirate Sets in North America!
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(...) SNIP (...) Well having put together the big ship in preparation for a round of Evil Stevie's Pirate game at Northwest BrickCon (shameless plug) I can say that yes, when it comes to versatility, there's a little left to be desired. However, (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: The RE_wing. A recon version of the E-Wing fighter
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Knew I forgot something. (URL) Thanks! (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: Here's a question...
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(...) <snip> Thanks! I'll give that a shot first. Take care, Dave K (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto15: Connect Four and rtlToronto15: Rope Climbing Photos Available
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Hi folks, Thanks to the photography of Rob Antonishen, David-Daniel Day, Mario DeFacendis, Steve Hassenplug, Ivan Louch, Derek Raycraft, and myself, here's some fabulous photos of rtlToronto15 and rtlToronto16, two robotics competitions here in (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events)
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| | Re: Poe story for Halloween: Cask of Amontillado
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(...) No, I hadn't seen the Raven one before, but now I have. That one is just as nice. I rather liked how you changed his face in the final picture. One other thing I liked was how you did the legs of the chair - I may have to steal that idea from (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | NWBrickCon Site Update
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The (URL) NWBrickCon> website has been updated. Included in the update is the final schedule, day-by-day, hour-by-hour. Please review the schedule to begin planning your event! Also, a down-loadable tent card template has been placed for your (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.sealug, FTX)
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| | Re: Compound shaft
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(...) You could use a differential - or maybe a large turntable. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 URLs) GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS d-- s:+ a+ C++++$ UL+++$ P--- (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Poe story for Halloween: Cask of Amontillado
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(...) Hey, that is pretty nice, now that you mention it. :) (...) You could just select the black area around Fortunato's head (either selecting by hand, or the magic wand tool set to low tolerance would probably do the trick), and then adjust the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Hello Southern Cali!
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Hey Adrian, Mathew, Jen, and Aaron; Thanks for a great time. To look at the headlines currently you would think the community is in ruin. But the community I know and love is the one who who would get together and have a good time with a guy just (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.lugola, FTX)
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| | Re: Renderer Questions
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(...) <snip> (...) Peter, To my knowledge, only LPub creates the visual part lists. Could you show us examples of the door issue? I'm sure someone here can figure it out. Kevin (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Renderer Questions
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(...) Peter, I'm adding support for ldglite (and possibly ldlite) to LPub. We've got a few compaibility issues between POV-Ray output and ldglite, but Don is working on this. I'm very pumped about about alternate renderers, and thank Orion for the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Echo Base Arrival
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(...) I really enjoyed these pics. They captured the overall sense of urgency and cramped conditions from the movie very well. Also, the use of spotlights was a nice touch... sets the mood. Cheers, Mark (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: The RE_wing. A recon version of the E-Wing fighter
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(...) Fantastic shaping there. But you forgot to include a link to the gallery: (3 URLs) AndroDan>> Tony Hafner (URL) www.hafhead.com> (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: More KB stores closing
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(...) Yes. The three that were conveniently located for me to shop at closed in the last batch, and the one remaining one that's sort of out of the way for me is on the "maybe" list. *sigh* (...) Maybe if it turns out that this is actually a list of (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Echo Base Arrival
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(...) Steve, Thanks and that's really good too. Though I must say that mine was based more on the actual movie scenes. AC (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: 3vil Hovertank
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3rotic indeed. It's a little too busy, though. I didn't notice the skull on it at first, too much going on on the skull part. Lots of big round things on this tank. That must be how the 3GA likes it, eh? ;) -Matthew Sklar, who hopes his planet (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: More KB stores closing
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(...) several of those stores that I recognize as being in TRU markets. Ray (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | More KB stores closing
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Up to 238 stores to close after Christmas. Information central: (URL) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Renderer Questions
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(...) ... (...) This may not exactly be what you're after, but the beauty of raytraced images is that they can be whatever you want them to be, and they are an order of magnitude better in quality than those produced by the other programs you (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | The RE_wing. A recon version of the E-Wing fighter
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Those crazy engineers at FreiTek have come up with a heavily modified scout version of the E-Wing fighter, the RE-Wing. It measures in at 12 meters long (using 6 studs = 1 meter) with a wing span of 9 meters. It has two custom heavy thrust fusion (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX) !
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| | Ferry 'Schulpengat': progress
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Hullo! Just to report on my current project: a model of the Dutch roro-ferry 'Schulpengat'. Model specs: - I only (plan to :-}) have enough Lego to model the front part of the ferry... - has working Voith-schneider propellor, car-deck doors are (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: ExoJeep: A space wheels contest entry
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Hi, one question: Is there at least _one_ part from Lego in this jeep? Ronald (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: History of 4679
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In lugnet.dear-lego, John Barnes wrote: SNIP (...) Hi, look here: (URL) number of that 100ltr. bin is 4521. In there are also a lot of interesting but sometimes frustrating (only left or right wedges) parts. The same bins were offerded at the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Vehicle Scorer
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(...) Heh, I finally caught wind of this thread :) Like Mike, I'd really like to see an updated-for-2001 rules scorer... Which is sorta what started stopping me. The difficulty came when I started adapting the scorer for the 2001 rulebook, and tried (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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| | Educational store in Bells Corners
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G'day folks, I was wondering if anyone has ever checked out the Educational/Teachers store in Bells Corners, on Roberston west of Moodie (in mini-mall across from the Nissan stealership). The sign in the window claims they have LEGO. Regards KDJ (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott)
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| | Re: 3vil Hovertank
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3rotic (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC: the STAR RUNNER!
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(...) Wow! My life in a nutshell. LEGO and H*R. Man, you're a genius. Keep up the good work. (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Piggybacking sensors, but in a different way
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(...) While you may be able to connect a touch sensor (passive) to two RCXs, I doubt that would work with a light sensor (any active sensor). Mainly, because one of them must be set to power the sensor. Normally, when the sensor is read by an RCX, (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Poe story for Halloween: Cask of Amontillado
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(...) Um, I mean, of course that's what I was thinking. Now my work can be used in literature classes everywhere. ;) (...) Thanks. Now I wish I'd come up with this tool when I made a (URL) building scene> last year. (URL) Bruce (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | RE: Here's a question...
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Not tried, but how about double sided sticky tape instead of glue? -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of David Koudys Sent: 26 October 2004 21:30 To: lugnet.technic@lugnet.com (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Poe story for Halloween: Cask of Amontillado
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(...) I'm glad you like it. :) 'Tis the season to be twisted. (...) Thanks. It was a little too boring when there was just a flat gray wall. I think I've seen others do similar things with technic bricks to make patterns. (...) I believe I first got (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Here's a question...
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Has anyone attempted to glue the hub to the rubber tyre on the original Technic large tyre or somehow make the tyre stay on the hub better? 3740 Black Tyre 24 x 43 Technic Just wondering... Dave K (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Armor!
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~NiCe! Well then, I’ll have to try that metallic wax-based stuff soon!!! Wax-based hun?!? It’ll be interesting to see how it adheres to the ABS, and if it smudges? Here’s my attempt at some realism in armor…with some paint-fading technique. (Please (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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| | Re: Poe story for Halloween: Cask of Amontillado
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(...) Good heavens, I'm glad you kept it! Poe's trowel is a quintessential element of foreshadowing in early American short-fiction. To omit it would be to lose an important artifact of Poe's work. Additionally, I like the creative way you overcame (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Poe story for Halloween: Cask of Amontillado
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(...) Thanks. The wine rack was inspired by one by Anthony Sava and other people's variations, as described in (URL) this thread from classic-castle> Bruce (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Poe story for Halloween: Cask of Amontillado
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(...) Thanks! You've seen my rendition of (URL) The Raven> from last Halloween, right? I expect that you'll see another Poe story from me next Halloween. I've thought about ways to do both Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum. Bruce (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Poe story for Halloween: Cask of Amontillado
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(...) Thanks. I'm so glad that trowel makes sense. I had no idea what I was going to use for that and almost just replaced "trowel" with "hammer and chisel" to use a hammer and a screwdriver, but I was looking for odd elements and came across the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Pirate sets for sale in my new Bricklink store
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Hi everyone, it's my first post here at Lugnet, and I just want to say that i've just opened a Bricklink store. It's only got sets at the moment, mainly 17 pirate sets of varying sizes. All of the sets are at the lowest Bricklink price for sets of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Renderer Questions
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(...) Yuk! I guess it makes sense to add support for ROTSTEP instead. (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [off-topic] Looking for pic from 10/26/04 Tampa Tribune
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This is WAY off topic - no Lego involved. My Mom is in FL working for the Kerry campaign (spare me the flames, please). She was apparently in a picture on the front of the Metro or City (or whatever it's called) section at a rally for Theresa Heinz (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.loc.us.fl.tam)
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| | Re: 1Wire vs I2C
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:19:36 GMT, Bruce Boyes <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote: Big Snip! (...) Whew! Thanks for the insight! How does the component/driver cost compare? -Rob. (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Renderer Questions
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(...) You reinsert all the lines that came before the CLEAR, except without STEP commands. Steve (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Renderer Questions [DAT]
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(...) Maybe the -D command line option does what you want? From the docs: -D, will tell LDLite to start ignoring STEP commands after levels of included files. Use the option -D1 to have LDLite only wait for a keypress or save a bitmap at STEP (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem creating .pov using LGEO parts in L3PAdd-on
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(...) Woohoo, thanks, that worked! (the path was just set to C:\) I wonder why it wasn't set correctly? Tim (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New MOC: the STAR RUNNER!
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(...) I was considering using it for a "Team America: Space Police" theme, but I couldn't decide where to attach the guns. ;) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Brickmania site retuns for 5-year Anniversary!
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Greetings fellow Lunutters! Some of you have noticed that my web site had been down for the past few weeks... After a nightmarish month of dealing with server issues, I finally have it moved to a more reliable machine, and it is up and running once (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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(...) A lot of these events is pure luck :) (...) This sounds pretty reasonable, an emphasis on towers with some for sorting and homing. Calum (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Dracula Study
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Just another quick MOC: (URL) Drac's on his chair with Bat-chandelier above. A chalice (of blood?) within arms reach. Nelson (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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| | 1Wire vs I2C
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(...) I2C is much faster (100 Kbit I2C is the slowest, vs 14 Kbit 1Wire), more reliable, but much shorter distance. Newer I2C can be 1 Mbit or more. (...) 1Wire will never do 115 kbits reliably. The 1Wire overdrive option is not reliable and few (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Walmart has Mars Rovers again ($30)
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(...) Thanks Gail, this is a set my son wanted for the holidays, so I just popped up to my local Walmart (Grey/Bruce County in Ontario), and sure enough we had them too! Thanks for the heads up. Janey "Red Brick" (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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(...) The more I think about this the more I agree with David. It's a block stacking event. You score points if you stack blocks. Derek (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Echo Base Arrival
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(...) Very nice indeed, although I must say I prefer this one... (URL) Of course, being part of NALUG I'm just a bit biased. :-) SRC LUGNet#765 (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | ExoJeep: A space wheels contest entry
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Check it here:(URL) ExoJeep> This is my second entry to the space wheels contest. A little bit more rugged than the Moon Buggy, and better inspired by landscape scenes of Mars and my Jeep. -Avery (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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| | Renderer Questions
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I have constructed a small McDonald's as part of a small layout MichLUG is providing the Detroit area Festival of Trees as a raffle item. I've also done a version of the model in MLCAD with the goal of creating instructions. As usual, though, I've (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub
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(...) Not yet. The current release always picks -4/3*x for the aspect ratio. I know the negative sign is required to convert the y axis from ldraw coords to POV. I'm not sure how that gets worked into the upcoming version of l3p, which does have a (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Armor!
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(...) Despite the fact that I vowed that Barbie Blue (a derisive term that I have single-mindedly championed) armor would not last in my house, it in fact, has. Mostly because I have only one example. I have lots of the green guy now and I've been (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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| | SALE-A-SALE-Brick-SALE-Too-SALE-Far-SALE-USA!!
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All items on sale for the rest of this week: (URL) Unsorted bulk lots - 20% off Sets - 10% off Parts - 40% off Minifigs - 10% Happy Lego hunting! Bob (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Problem creating .pov using LGEO parts in L3PAdd-on
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(...) Maybe you have a Libray_Path wrong in POV, so it's looking for include files in the wrong place? POV: 'Tools' -> 'Edit Master POVRAY.INI', go to the end of the file, You may have any number of lines like these: Library_Path=C:\Program\POV-Ray (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub
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(...) The 4/3 is the aspect ratio of the POV generated rendering (matches 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200 etc.). If you for some reason want POV to do a high, narrow (or low, long), rendering this factor has to be changed. It's often easier to do a (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Compound shaft
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(...) An example of this is here: (URL) using (URL) that can engage with any of the technic 1x plates : 2719 Technic Plate 1 x 10 with Holes 4263 Technic Plate 1 x 4 with Holes 4262 Technic Plate 1 x 6 with Holes 4442 Technic Plate 1 x 8 with Holes (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Why is it pushed back? Was:Burlington is being shipped (in Europe, that is)
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(...) that is exact.. here in europe, for the BNSF, the initial ship date was 11/09/04 and it has finally been shiped 10/24/04. Didier Enjary (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Walmart has Mars Rovers again ($30)
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Dropped by my loal Walmart yesterday, and they have about 60 copies of 7471 Mars Exploration Rover priced at $29.86. They were mostly on a pallet in the aisle, and on an endcap next to the megabloks. Only a couple were in with the LEGO. Still $5 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | History of 4679
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This is probably a question for Jake, but there may be other sources of info. How did 4679 come to be? With its odd but very useful collection of additional bits, you have to buy quite a few just to make sure you get some of the different versions. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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| | Re: Problem creating .pov using LGEO parts in L3PAdd-on
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(...) Hi Tim, I have everything running on my E drive, so it is possible. :-) Here's my thought... There should be an LDRAW.INI file in your Windows directory. Make sure you have the "LgeoDirectory" entry set correctly under the "[LDRAW]" section, (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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(...) What if we said that a 'bot could enter if it could only scan the Connect 4 board, or drop a chip anywhere and still be counted (though, so I'm told, that's what some of them did) The event is block stacking. We've done it 3 times before. If (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub
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(...) I assume that L3P allows the output to be any aspect ratio. The page is a little confusing that way. However, it's trying to tell you how the camera angle argument works, going on the assumption you haven't changed the aspect ratio. Just (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Why is it pushed back? Was:Burlington is being shipped (in Europe, that is)
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(...) Simple: This isn't an exact science. We estimate our best guess and work hard to get things in place by those dates in order to get you goods as quickly as possible. Overall, our track record is that we typically ship on or often before the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Piggybacking sensors, but in a different way
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Is it possible to piggyback 1 sensor onto two rcx's? For instance, have one light sensor connected to port 1 of two different rcx's at the same time. The purpose would be for one rcx to control chassis movement, and another to control manipulator (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Why do high-res primitives make it easier to realize? Considering the size of this object, I'd lean toward needing to reduce it. Steve (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Is there an official "membership" for SciBrick?
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(...) Sure. Keep in mind we don't have to use your suggestions ;) - but I'm always open to hearing people's ideas. What sort of suggestions did you have in mind? It might be more appropriate to email me about them (Comm.Officer@scibrick.org) than to (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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(...) I didn't get to see it either. I think we were too busy running our C$ robots in the final... But, I believe it moved all the marbles onto the opponent's square, because the penalty for "wrong" marbles was bigger than the points for "right" (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Why is it pushed back? Was:Burlington is being shipped (in Europe, that is)
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Why does the release date keep getting pushed back in the US? When I pre-ordered mine, the shipping date was November 11, 2004. Then it got pushed back to November 24th. Now it says it will ship by december 8th! What going on? -Juan (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Can I "Belt" You?
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Here's something new for you customizers out there - (URL) Jeff (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snip> (...) Wow. That is lotsa good stuff, but great googly moogly! This whole thing started 'cause I asked to run a 'mini block stacking' competition. We went from a 'lets build a nifty block (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Click-Rotation Parts [DAT]
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And here is the primitive: CU Bernd 0 Click Rotation Socket Cogwheel Quarter 0 Name: 1-4crs.dat 0 Author: Bernd Broich 0 Unofficial Primitive 0 BFC CERTIFY CW 0 Inner Ring R = 11 LDU 0 Outer Ring R = 12 LDU 0 Upper Ring 2 24 0 0 11.2 0.5 0 11.35 2 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Click-Rotation Parts [DAT]
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(...) Sorry but there is no finished part yet. (...) I could send you a nearly finished part (48169) where the bottom is open. But else it's finished. To Steve Bliss or Chris Dee: I've made the cylinder-thing with high-res- primitives because it was (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Can we help?
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(...) Now this may sound naive, but: WHY do you (and so many with you) object to production in China? I have seen some very good quality coming from over there (Atlas model trains comes to mind). I realy don't know why China would be a worse place (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Paranoie & perversioni...pazzie e pazzi
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(...) *Non* ho fatto. Odio le etichette perchè sono appiccicose... :-) Tutte le mie cassettiere sono trasparenti, si riesce a vedere il contenuto dall'esterno. Inoltre, essendo malato di Ottolinite, sono in grado di trovare la locazione di un pezzo (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Compound shaft
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(...) I've seen this done a) with a new style differential - it will spin free on a central axle and has a 24t gear at one end and a 16t at the other. b) two 16t "clutch" gears connected either via the toothed bearings, or via the driving ring (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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(...) Ok, I can't remember, what did this robot do that was considered a loop hole in the rules? (...) True it does allow for a pure sorting robot. Maybe we don't want to allow that. I thought it allowed for a good entry level robot. But it could (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I used to be kind of against this, because I'm sick of loophole pokers (Steve, JeffE, I'm looking in your direction...) but the thing is, we have better things to do than to try and outrule everyone. That and Steve never does it anyways. He's (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: MOC: Cloud Cruiser police vehicle
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(...) Hi, I really like this MOC. The functionality is incorporated well, and the overall shape is good. I especially like the fans behind the engine grills, with the engines expanding out to something massive in the back. My only critique is (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Compound shaft
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Does anyone know of a compound shaft in Lego shafts? The primary purpose would be for a clock (minute and second hands) Thanks! Larry (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Is there an official "membership" for SciBrick?
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(...) Are the members of SciBrick open to outside suggestions? -Brian (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick)
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| | Re: Mini-RCX
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(...) The pcb for my Brainibot kit is around that size. (Just search the web for "Brainibot".) It uses an 8-pin PIC and has two H-bridge motor drivers, two "antennae" (e.g. push switches), a light sensor and a sounder. One of the models is (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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(...) I'd also be concerned that scoring this way would open the door to to "loophole bots" like Rob's (?) at RTL15 (URL) which, while I thought it exploited a clever loophole in the scoring, did somewhat disadvantage other bots that more closely (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) You mean by counting ALL the blocks of your home colo[u]r? It seems like only counting up to the wrong color would offer a big penalty for non-sorting robots. If two non-sorting robots compete, the winner will be the lucky one, who is last to (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) No, because if I build a tower without sorting the colours, and the bottom block was the opponents colour I would get nothing for it. I'm suggesting that you should get full points for the tower, but you don't get the bonus for building it all (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Megaruota & C
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Ho messo su Brickshelf alcune immagini dei miei ultimi lavoretti... trovate alcune astronavi e un progettino Mindstorms basato su una megaruota costruita con i cingoli. (URL) comento e suggerimento sarà sicuramente ben accetto! Dino Baldi P.S. mi (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Wamalug Dinner gaterhing Wednesday Night
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Hi All, I know this is short notice... but WAMALUG would like to invite you to join us for a little dinner gathering in Arlington, VA. where: (URL) TIMES CAFE C L A R E N D O N 3028 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia 22314, (703) 528-2233 When: (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.loc.us.md, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.va.arl)
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