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(...) Timed Build: Mosaic Saturday, August 13, 2005 9:00am-10:30am Room 317 Janey Red Brick (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Did LEGO bring these couples together?
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(...) Note to self: Stop selling product in the LEGO store and go to Wal-Mart/TRU/Target and hang out in the toy aisles there... ;) -Scott (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Still looking for people for the BrickFest Mosaic Build
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(...) since i'm lazy what day and time is it? ondrew (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Wanted overhead projector...
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(...) hey robin, i got an idea so here me out. i often rent large and or expencive construction equipment for a very reasonable cost. it got me thinking so i googled the event area for office supply rentals. (URL) there's even a rental company right (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | AoJT IV: Johnny Thunder and the Poachers of Prehistory (Preview)
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Just a teaser picture... (URL) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Still looking for people for the BrickFest Mosaic Build
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(...) We are still looking for a few more people for the Mosaic build, please email by Tuesday as I will be hitting the road, and I will not beable to access a computer until way after the event. Thanks. Janey Red Brick (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Question about where to post
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Where should I post a question about the source set for a particular piece? What I'm interested in is "In what sets did the XXX appear?" and there is no answer in the Peeron database for the particular color. There is one available on Bricklink, and (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Wanted overhead projector...
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Wanted overhead projector... This is a call to attendees of BrickFest 2005... We are in need of an overhead projector for presentation in room 251. I you have access to one and can bring it to BrickFest, it would be a great help. And I could make it (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Did LEGO bring these couples together?
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(...) Suz- Here's another case your poll does not cover. Susan and I were married before the first LEGO set came into the house. Our neighbors' children received big LEGO sets every Christmas and one year Susan expressed interest. I bought her a (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Re: Canadian Pacific
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(...) Have to agree, missed it first time round but love it this time Tim (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Canadian Pacific
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(...) DUDE! Somehow this MOC passed under my radar, so let me say now that I think it is most excellent! I really love how you have captured the "heaviness" of the F7-- really top notch! I totally dig your trucks, and though I'm not too wild about (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Want to help LEGOFan.org while you're at BrickFest?
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(...) This looks like fun. Expect me to be driving the price up! Some of these should go in the live auction though, I bet they would raise a lot more money that way (and the bidding will be fun). Frank (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: Canadian Pacific
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(...) Hi, here is a link to the wheel decorations that I used for my Super Chief. For the engine... (URL) the cars... (URL) don't think that the engine decorations will be much use to you since I build 8-wide, but you might be able to re-engineer (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 2005 LDraw.org Standards Committee Vote Results
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(...) Congrats to the team! ROSCO (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ILTCO at National Train Show
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Great photos, I particularly like the corner section of the layout with the wooden trestle bridge (URL) details available on how this bridge was constructed? (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Wanted: book on LEGO town building
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(...) No!!! Don't say that. I really, really don't have time for any more projects, so telling me how much fun it was isn't helping me at all. Please tell me that it was gruelling, thankless, back-breaking labor that made you regret you'd ever (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | LEGO STAR WARS Videogame modding / skinning
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Just a heads up for those of you who would like to get a bit more gameplay out of LEGO Star Wars (PC version only) There are 4 or 5 game modders (myself included) showcasing what we've managed in this fbtb.net thread (URL) There are many more (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad)
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(...) You know, it was surprisingly easy to do my book. TONS of work, certainly. But very fun work, and it's been great to have accomplished it. Interestingly, it wasn't "hard" work, in sense that only a select few people in the world could do it. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Kevin Wilson has a great town planning section on his site: (URL) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Re: spare gold bricks
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(...) Done! e-mail me your address and I'll send them out tomorrow. -Suz (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Want to help LEGOFan.org while you're at BrickFest?
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(...) If these are intended to be silent auction lots, may I suggest breaking some of them up a bit? I know Todd always thought that odd lot sizes drove up prices but if you can get several builders happy, that's goodness. IMHO anyway. (Lar would (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.fun.community, FTX)
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| | Re: [ANN] New inventory tool
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(...) Hello Dan and Jennifer, (...) Well, not really surprising, Peeroml ressembles nothing you have seen in the AFOL world. Peeroml is the same as Peeron inventories but using a computer notation rather than a human-friendly notation. The benefits (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: spare gold bricks
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(...) Well if it is first come first serve.... I would be honored to take your gold bricks Suzanne! Gary Istok (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | spare gold bricks
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I had planned to build something for the Trust, but I am way too busy to finish it and lack odd pieces. (I started way too late!). Is there anyone here who can use my gold bricks? I'd be happy to mail them out free. -Suz (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Peach down
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Hey folks, A power supply failed last night and both Peach hard disks were destroyed in a fiery explosion of fantastic proportions. Okay, I'm elaborating a bit. But either way, Peach is down and we're getting a new second hand Ultra30 in it's place, (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Want to help LEGOFan.org while you're at BrickFest?
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Want to help support LEGO Fan while at the same time getting some very cool LEGO elements? The LEGOFan team secured a large selection of (URL) rare or sought after pieces> and we will be making them available at the BrickFest silent auction. All (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.fun.community, FTX)
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| | Re: OT: Math Help
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(...) Oops, there was a mistake in my first equation above that I've corrected here, in order to give a negative number. (...) That's why I have " > 180", not "> or equal to 180" ;) Since the question was framed in relation to 0, that's what my (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I noticed that, also. I think it says "changes must be less than 180". However, I'm not sure it matters which direction you went. For example, if you get readings of 10 deg and 20 deg, but in the time between the direction was never 15 (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: OT: Math Help
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(...) One of the things I did pickup from "my" answer is you need to have a sample frequency small enough that you are not going to get wind direction changes of 180 degrees or more. And I say or more, because it's important to the average which (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Want to build Teknomeka?
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Hello everyone, Do you want to build Teknomeka and just don't have the parts? (URL) is your chance! I have accumulated the parts to build 4 of these models. Today I am offering two of them for sale. First is the stock color scheme as in the (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: OT: Math Help
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(...) And if you stop and think about it for a second or two, you'll realize your special case really does deserve special consideration. The average is no wind at all, so the direction would be undefined. (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: OT: Math Help
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(...) Don't you get the same problem at 180, now? 170 + 190 = 170 +(-170) = 0 I think there are several readings that can give you more than one result. For example, if you take two readings of 90 and 270, what should the answer be? 0? 180? never (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Duplo Castle / Dragon sets parted out
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(...) Joe, The line certainly does have some cool stuff in it. I have two of each set just for me. I will add parts from the other sets as those sets go on clearance. Parting out full retail sets just is not feasible. I suspect it will be real soon (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: Wanted: book on LEGO town building
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--SNIP-- (...) I agree about nice, shiny books. Of course, if we could get enough information and a liberal enough publisher, we could print the shiny book eventually ;-). Tim (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Re: OT: Math Help
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(...) Here a detailed explanation I found puttering with google. I can't remember how to solve these equations anymore. So have fun. :-) (URL) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Wanted: book on LEGO town building
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(...) Thanks, Tim — I confess that I thought BrickWiki was just about the history of LEGO. I didn't know it was a repository for building techniques as well. I agree, that could be quite useful. In some ways, not quite as nice as a glossy book on my (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Re: OT: Math Help
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(...) If I remember right, the way we resolved this for real-world surveying problems and the like was to convert the degrees 180 < x < 360 into negative values relative to 0/north. 350 is -10, 270 is -90, etc. If x1 > 180 then x2 = 360 - x1 This (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hi Joe, It's not exactly a book, but we are trying to cover as many of those sorts of things as possible over on (URL) BrickWiki>. Go check it out and if there is anything specific you'd like to see added, put in a request on the (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Wanted: book on LEGO town building
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I know Jake recently got an excellent book on LEGO trains published. I'd love to see something similar, but all about building minifig-scale LEGO towns. I imagine that major sections of the book might include: vehicles buildings landscaping & (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Re: OT: Math Help
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(...) I think using vector math (as you do above) is the right way to go. As for the special cases, meh, deal with it :) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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