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In article <J5C97r.BBF@lugnet.com>, David <dww.robotics@gmail.com> writes (...) This is the guaranteed minimum number, with higher voltages and at higher temperatures than you are likely to use the NXT at. FLASH memory is a pretty mature technology (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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In article <J5CrsD.53w@lugnet.com>, Patrick Levy <patrick@omiccron.com.br> writes (...) That is the Lego Company's recommended price. Hamleys sell to many foreign visitors so they can probably help with advice on how to reclaim the VAT (17.5% retail (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Where do you get these ideas? They're *opinions*, not fact. Of course staffing a convention can be employment. It doesn't *have* to be payment-free or volunteer work. And event money *can* go to paying staff. Do you not understand that (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Yeah, I mean geez, I spent almost $125 on gas for the 2250 miles of driving I did to/from/around BF, so the $60 in reg was piddling. Not to mention I saved more than the reg fees Thurs night at the Lego store by far ;-) And the buffet during (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I don't think anyone got paid, but if they did, I wouldn't be upset. (...) *"Just"*? You really have no clue whatsoever on the difficulty of organizing such an event, do you? Until you do it yourself (on BF's current scale), do NOT complain (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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This reply is not targeted at Jake or any specific person. It was just convenient to reply to Jake's post. Well, I thought I'd be done with this thread, but it looks like I'm going to have to put out a fire before it explodes. I really don't want to (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: new Thomas the Tank Engine sets
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(...) I can help you get a Cranky if you like. Let me know. Russell BayLUG (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I researched this topic about eight months ago. I no longer worry about it. I must admit I didn't know about the "lock-bits" specification and was concerned only with the "flash rewrite specification". I have also had other conversations on (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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"Deidre Rushton Brumby" <drb@tasmail.com> wrote in message news:J57CKK.o28@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks. I checked my local Target and same story, Harold but no Cranky. Still, Harold alone will make my nephew happy. Kerry (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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I am really sad that these comments about Brickfest and if Christina and/or Joe are keeping profits and if volunteers are being shafted while whomever is profiting from Brickfest are being spoken. At this point, I don't care. I HAVE attended BF for (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) I can understand this, but at the end of the day there are benefits in both models: 1. A for-profit has an economic incentive to continue developing positive, fulfilling events. 2. A non-profit model had a higher chance of powering through (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) I never said anything about scaling the image. For things like sticker scans or anything else where you don't want lossy compression, there are image formats like PNG. PNG can be used just fine for anything where you don't want to loose (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) It's not THAT unrealistic, as Jeff mentioned that he attends other fan events where the organizers work on a volunteer basis. (...) You're right - Christina/Joe/whoever could take the accumulated funds from BF and write themselves a check for (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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You've never run an event have you Jeff? First off, an event for more than 800 attendees has some expenses other than just the 'space' for panels, displays etc. Quite a few.Start with insurance., now I'm not sure about Virginia, but in my area the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Flash Write Cycles
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(...) When downloading a program to the NXT using NBC if there is a file with the same name on the NXT already it is first deleted. Then a new file is created and written using the same filename. I don't know whether that means the firmware will (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Slavery is not voluntary, and they CHOSE to participate, as did everyone else on staff. Staffing a convention is not employment, it is a voluntary service to better the hobby. In addition, the money is the *event's* money, not any one (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) From dictionary.com: em?bez?zle [em-bez-uhl] –verb (used with object), -zled, -zling. to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care. Which leads to: fraud [frawd] –noun 1. deceit, trickery, sharp (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) That's an unrealistic expectation. (...) I look forward to your announcement of your own LEGO-related event, I'd like to see how that works for you. Good luck with that. (...) Tommy said it well... how can you embezzle your own money? (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickvention 2006 photos
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(...) Nice photography, Braith! Very well done! (...) (URL) wait, that's me... *blush* (...) Hear, hear! And let's hope we all get plenty of spare time to work on new MOCs. Thanks for posting your pics! Cheers, Paul (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Golly Pete In my opinion no monetary compensation for the event coordinator of a major event is akin to slavery. And that is very, very unethical. Once you pay your registration fee to an event you should have no say how, where, or to whom it (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | NXT in London
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Somebody can point me the best (cheapest) shop to buy the NXT in London? I will be there by october, and I only found it for £179,99 GBP in hamleys. (ouch!). TIA Patrick Levy São Paulo, Brazil (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Flash Write Cycles
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(...) I don't; John Hansen might. While Flash memory does have a limited number of read/write cycles, it appears that the stated limit is conservative, by a large margin... although some of us have thought about a "test to failure" trial, I've not (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Bluetooth Commands via Perl
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(...) Although I haven't tried it, someone has created a perl module for sending commands here: (URL) haven't tried it because I'm working on a ruby module :) (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Yes, it absolutely does. I expect every cent I put in to go back to the event itself, and not the people running it. The only compensation I expect any staffers to recieve is free entry to the event (since it is more work than play for most of (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) That was great! Thank you very much for posting the videos. (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I'm not convinced of this at all. My estimations of the amount of money coming in does not match up with information I have been able to glean on costs. I am not privy to the financial details, and could be wrong, but I still have my (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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My almost 10 minute long video is ready. Sorry it's a week later than I said, but it's not my camera so I had to borrow it again. (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Nor do I. In fact, I encourage it. That means there's even more specific motivation to make things bigger, better, more interesting, etc. (...) Dave, excellent point. (...) I think the reality is that in the earlier days, there was barely (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Parts Releases and the CA
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(...) I may have missed this, but has LDraw.org released a list of the parts that need to be replaced? I would think that making such a list available and encouraging part authors to focus their efforts on those parts first would speed things up and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Flash Write Cycles
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Does anyone know how the NXT firmware handles writing program files into flash? If you re-flash a program with the same name, does it first erase the sectors that the old program was located in and then re-flash these sectors with the new program? (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Oh no, someone beat Derek!
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(...) Ya, Calum has already been taunting me privately with these pictures. The truth is I'm not going to be first out of the gate. It just too big a project and I have too many other projects to work on as well. I'm looking to get into the second (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this? Some more photography basics
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Although most of your advice is sound I'd like to make one comment : You make quite a few save steps before the end result... specially with a format such as JPEG (which is what comes out of most consumer level camera's) loads of info gets lost on (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-(
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(...) NO! Imagine people putting up sticker scans, which you'd want as sharp as possible for reprinting. Using JPEG and having them scaled would kill the details there. Why not educate the clueless user instead of killing features power users might (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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Well, agree or not, Anthony's making a valid point. Some AFOLs may feel used or exploited if the event is a for-profit one, while others don't mind, so long as they get their money's worth. I think the problem is that people don't know. I guess (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Oh no, someone beat Derek!
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(URL) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Where are the Belville lovers..?
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I've just found another 'pretty gruesome' one :-) (URL) friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: Puerto Brico : Pirates everyday life
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Eric, You've done an awsome job with this MOC. I admire that you've captured so much nice little details, while keeping close to the brick diversety mix and building techniques that were so characteristic for the classic LEGO sets of the eighties. (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: ordine lego
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(...) Prima di fare un ordine da Buhr, leggete questo post sul forum di BrickLink: (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | NXT
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(...) På mitt jobb så ska det bestllas in en och utvärdera, tänker mig nog att köpa en själv inom kort så att man kan testa lite komunikation dem emellan oxå. 10 lådor...ja det blir billigt det...ca 30 000 om ni köper från Elevdata (Robolab). Jag är (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Light sensor sampling freq?
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(...) Hmm, so speed isn't the issue, the issue is that the 'laser' must hit the detector head on. But luckily that was solved by inserting a thin slice of paper inside the 2x1 red transpararent brick and moving it tone stud in front of the sensor. (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) There you have it Todd and you people who want to put on an event in California--pretty much a blue print for what needs to be done (+ getting Jake's fingers a massage so he could keep typing). As I said when first started down this thread--I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Why does Dino Head have a kitten?
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(...) It's like Jonesy in (URL)/(URL) Aliens>. It's there to hiss at the dinosaurs. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.year.2001, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Anthony, all due respect when I say this - I think you're woefully underestimating the time required to put on such an event. I'm in no way speaking for Christina or the BF volunteers, but I know from my own experience of trying to organize (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) As someone would has built a career on trying to understand why consumers/users/fans volunteer to help out the brands they love, this is a fascinating discussion! In order for the process of collaboration to work, what has to happen? Everbody (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: TRU and Prices
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You know, there was a class-action lawsuit against KB for artificially inflating MSRP to make it seem like their discount was larger... Perhaps someone should remind TRU of that, and warn that KB lost that one... (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Why does Dino Head have a kitten?
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In <set:1354> Dino Head Attack, what is the kitten for? Put some life into year.2001.. (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.year.2001)
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| | [Press Release} BayLUG Upcoming Events and 2007 Preview (long)
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA The Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) and Train Club (BayLTC) is pleased to announce our schedule for the rest of 2006, and a preview of the 2007 schedule. ---...--- Great Train Expo Sat-Sun, September 23-24, 2006 (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Maximum depth of ldraw models?
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(...) I found that performance went down somewhat when I copied and pre-translated all the studs too. I could be creating a memory cache penalty. Anyway it is only one matrix multiply per stud (stud is already flattened in itself), which goes onto (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) I'm only going to speak (type?) for myself here. I came... because it was fun. A of fun. And I learned an amazing amount of things, and was deeply inspired by a lot of the things I saw (interpretation: I will steal a lot of cool ideas from the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | RE: Light sensor sampling freq?
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Standard Lego firmware samples every 3 msec. BricOS is much faster. I believe it is faster than once per second. RobotC on NXT is programmable to be 0.5 msec scan, 1 msec, 2 msec, ... up to 255 msec. But remember the readings are not persistent. If (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?
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Todd, I imagine that enough time has passed that the ghosts of Brickswest past have been exercised. I have worried for some time now that the negative way that BW ended has clouded how cool of an event this actually was. People flew in from all (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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Anthony Wrote: (...) You are absolutely correct to this point (...) Well to many, including myself, a well run zoo is a cultural resource that has value and needs to be sustained and nurtured. Literally thousands of people volunteer their time and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Light sensor sampling freq?
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I'm working on a little nav idea that my robot can find my 'base' which is sweping a bright red led 'laser' over the area. I have to admit that I ventured into the Xacto and crazy glue area by using a 'laser' pointer and glueing four tiny mirrors (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) I don't work for the restaurant when I eat there. Thus this is not a valid comparison. Let's look at it this way: A regular venue, say, a business expo, the attendees are there for personal gain. They pay their entry fee and do their business (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Good question about volunteers. I think it's all about what's expected up front. There are all sorts of reasons why people volunteer for things... if I was doing the same thing as somebody who had a different "deal" with an organizer, I'd feel (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Anthony, I think you may be underestimating the amount of time and effort that goes into putting something like this on. Maybe not literally thousands of hours for any one person, but for somebody like Christina or Joe and maybe others too, (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Jeff, Marc and all, By all means, let's have a frank, honest, transparent and civil discussion about this stuff now. My understanding is that the public days bring in (a projected amount of) money that helps keeping registration at the level (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Display Case Idea
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(...) That's the idea. So many of us have, for example, Star Wars Lego's in boxes that are in pristine condition and they just sit in bubble wrap inside plastic tubs or whatever. Your comic book in a special plastic bag allows you to still view the (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Maximum depth of ldraw models?
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The thread seems to be splitting from the original point, It is a fact that OpenGL generally places a depth of 16 on any transforms. If an LDRAW model in MPD format was presented to OpenGL as a raw data block I suspect that OpenGL would easily hit (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Kelly, you're probably right that BF being a for-profit event shouldn't affect the perceived value of what you get for your registration fee. But it might affect other things. Would people be as willing to volunteer to help run BF if they knew (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Thanks for letting us know, Joe. Personally, I'm not concerned about it - from my perspective, any profit from BF'06 is yours to do with as you please. I wouldn't care if you took a vacation to Tahiti with it, or blew it on horse racing. (Not (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) And for those of us who would have to sleep somewhere, the cost of a hotel room is likely to be at least as big a concern as the plane ticket to get there. And we all have to eat for 3 or 4 days. That pretty much equals the cost of $20/day (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Maximum depth of ldraw models?
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(...) Actually on modern cards strips are always slower than optmized lists. You can always try adding degenerate triangles to stitch strips together to save the cost of multiple render calls (too bad PC cards don't support a primitive reset index). (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Sept or October?
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Okay I second and so move it. My October is a little busy, with the end of a month vacation to sunny mexico. (to bad no lego where I am going, guess I am going to have to pack an emergency travel pack.) What day works for everyone? Mark, Thou I have (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.us.az)
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| | Re: Display Case Idea
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(...) Is this the equivalent of keeping comic books pristine in special plastic bags? (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Very cool Joe, Kudo's for your transparency. As I mentioned, it is my desire to find a way to attend regardless, but it is nice to know where my $ would be going. Karl PS For those of us who would have to fly in, The cost of tickets is a much (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Display Case Idea
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(...) Great point, John. Affordability is important. What other comments? Hypothetically, if you were Mr. Gotta CaseIT, what would you want...something that could hang on a wall, sit on a shelf, fit on a coffee table...??? Role play a little if you (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) I will have a chance at the beginning of October. Some things are still being worked out, such as taxes and fees. I already have a rough breakdown of costs based on registration, but there is some undefined info, so I would rather wait until I (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Steve Irwin 1962 - 2006 - MOC Tribute
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(...) I think those are lovely. The Crunch face on him is perfect, and the family are a nice touch. I think a lot of people around the world are saddened by the loss of Australia's patron saint, but I couldn't help but smile at this tribute from web (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Its not my intention to flame at all. I was just making some observations. I am really just tangentially associated with the event. But I am aware that "just organizing the event as a whole" is no small thing. And it is my opinion that (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Display Case Idea
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(...) Since Lego makes many different sets with the same size boxes, you could save yourself some money by not putting the set name on the display case. (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) I'm not following your reasoning linking what you feel you get (or don't get) and where your money goes. Nevertheless. To make a simple comparison, do you eat at a fast-food restaurant, knowing that your money is not covering just the cost of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees
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Anthony, You don't know me from Adam, I lurk more than anything. But I had to respond to this post. First off, I have zero knowledge of how the event was organized. I went in '04 and that was it. I don't know if anyone got paid or not. But I have (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest) !!
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) Yes, it matters to me where the money goes. Why? What do *I* get out of brickfest? I get discounted LEGO, see new LEGO products, display my stuff, see other people's stuff and talk to other LEGO fans. Cheap LEGO - I can always get a friend who (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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Interesting topic this.... I an not qualified to judge the issue of wether or not folks should be paid, but here are a few things to consider. -Workers for Non-Profit organizations are paid. (I am one) -Gallery owners and art show organizers make (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Tim!!! I'll second what Jonathan wrote ... It looks awesome! And the attention to detail is incredible! I'm a Mac user, so I don't have the software to download the instructions. Any chance you can post some instructions as jpegs? (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) If you feel you got your money's worth (~$20/day) from the privilege of attending and participating, does it really matter where the money goes? Unless the event is stated as a charity event (which I don't recall BrickFest ever being billed (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Display Case Idea
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Hello, Lego Fans! I am a newbie to this site and I would like to, if I may, open a thread for listening to your honest opinions regarding a prototype display case that we are considering putting on the market. This is NOT to solicit sales, so don't (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) I'm sorry but the minute an organizer of Brickfest starts making money off of the event itself, compensation or not, I'm not going. If this was the case this year, I'm glad I didn't go. Yes, there are groups making money off of Brickfest - the (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Puerto Brico : Pirates everyday life
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(...) Awesome Eric! Now when will Lego produce it? :) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?
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(...) Wow -- the HMS Surprise--put me down--I saw the Victory this summer and the Surprise would be the "fait accompli". I forgot that was in San Diego-- Push on for San Diego--great venue and lots of LEGO AFOL's out there if I remember correctly. (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-(
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(...) Yep. That's part of it. I'm pushing those pictures out in part to have an additional backup (I'm horrible at writing CDs for backup, but if I have a copy of my pictures on BrickShelf, on my work laptop, and on my home computer, I've got a lot (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?
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(...) Don't apologize. Part of the attraction of a con in San Diego would be the other things you could do. I might bring my whole family and stay the whole week. I want to see HMS Surprise at the Maritime Museum and visit the San Diego Zoo as well (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: BINGO!
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(...) That was my personal best too. Alas, Chris has won with 10. Whether he made that up or not...he sent me a picture of it. Very impressive. Calum (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Johnny 5
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Hello Everyone: Does anyone have or know where I can get the plans to build a Johnny 5 type robot? Dan has plenty of pics on his site but no build plans.I have been searching for days on the web with no luck. Being an old timer I simply do not have (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-(
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(...) [...] (...) Hi Holger, Don't forget that some users use BS as a storing facility for their own needs or just to exchange stuffs with friends...and not for the pleasure of the "spectator" you are. But this thread is a great one and I agree most (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-(
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(...) Or auto-convert them to JPG when they are uploaded. But that takes lotsa CPU cycles. Steve (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO Batman video game
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Looks like the Dark Knight will be the next LEGO video game from TT Games, according to (URL) this article> I just ran across. Speculation was the next game would be Indiana Jones, but apparently not. I'm looking forward to Batman - should be fun, (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.games, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?
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(...) Todd, I really appreciate all the work that you and Joe did for BrickFest this year. It was really great. I would like to chime in on a few ideas for a west coast "BrickFest". 1- Definately February. 2- Definately Southern California (San (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-(
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If brickshelf were to completely ban BMP files, that would be a good start... (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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(...) What about the literally thousands of hours that Christina has given of her time to get the thing going--along with all the other dedicated volunteers in the past, and the hundreds of hours Joe spent this year to pull it all together. To truly (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2006 : 8285 Speedbuild new record (pics loaded!)
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(...) Well, there's all the rules right there! And the time was misconstrued by us as 2 hours, 42 minutes. We were allowed looser rules (I think we were allowed to rip the instructions), so different methods were done. I agree that a uniform set of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: LAFD, NYPD minifig-scale models
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Steven, Wonderful looking trucks. Thanks for posting your latest pics. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Asbury" <stevenasbury@comcast.net> To: <lugnet.town@lugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:58 AM Subject: Re: LAFD, NYPD (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: RCX2 Sensor Mux/Demux.
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(...) Atul, This is a really good combination of sensors to try to MUX. Depending on what sensors can be exclusive, you should be able to do this without any additional hardware. You can connect a light sensor to one port, and also connect a touch (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX2 Sensor Mux/Demux.
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"Atul" <sowani-NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in message news:J593w3.FqE@lugnet.com... (...) Check this site. (URL) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LAFD, NYPD minifig-scale models
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(...) Hi Tim, I am so glad you picked up on this. I just knew you'd have an incredible take on it. I can't say enough, I am just stunned. I was able to get some building time in last night, but quickly realized this: I make pretty good buildings. My (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickSpace Preview Release!
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(...) Congrats on this release Stef, I'm now digging up my HW2 CD... -Jason (URL) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: TRU and Prices
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(...) I think TRU is becoming the new KB. Here is a great example: V-Wing Fighter (6205) List Price: $19.99 Our Price: $9.99 (50% off) TRU: (URL) S@H: (URL) link> However MSRP and the Shop@Home price for 6205 is $9.99, so here again we are seeing (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: Negozio in Sicilia
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Alex Cordero wrote: [...] (...) Ciao. Federico era in Sicilia per vacanza. Ho pubblicato la cosa sul NG perche' cosi' chi e' nelle vicinanze di Capo d'Orlando puo' approfittarne. Ciao. Stefano (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Brickfest - Thanks etc.
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Yvonne, it was great getting to meet you an Pete. Glad you had a great time and I hope we get to see you guys again next year! -Jason (URL) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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