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(...) Another interesting thing about the letter bricks is that there were different sets for different countries. The set available in Sweden in 1971 was different from that available in Germany. Does anyone know how many different letter sets for (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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(...) I'll have to test it out in my office, which has difficult lighting. Errors in transmission can often break things in unexpected ways, leaving you in states that are hard to recover from, often resulting in the downloader aborting after giving (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: another thought on "Bid Siphoning"
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(...) Collector (...) fact, (...) You don't like my tone? Come on now, don't be so defensive. This whole McDonald's Drive-thru Soap Opera seems to have you rattled a bit. My point is: full disclosure of information should be FULL disclosure. Not an (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: New DK books on their way
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(...) That could be a mistake in the printing. I've seen LEGO yellow come out in photographs as looking orange. I don't remember the colors from our DK catalog. I'll try to remember to check it tonight. Especially as I'm supposed to be bringing a (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Oh, definitely! :) Although I'm not as pleased with RR as I'd like to be, I do find myself (a die-heard Space head since 1978) wanting to collect AZ and RR as well -- for their "space-like" futurism and beauty and cool elements for building (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Greg Kramer wrote in message ... (...) I found out about their existance quiye by accident. About a month ago I was trying to find a 4555 Freight Loading Station and happened upon this web page: (URL) I called Busy Bee I was informed that they (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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(...) have a (...) poor (...) I do believe that adding a surcharge is against the policy of all major credit card companies, and is grounds for cancellation of a merchant account. Or atleast it was when I had one... (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [FS] - eBay - McDonald's Promo set, box only - 25 cents
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(...) Bit if that's the case, why don't they at least have an option for sniper free auctions? (probably because the increased auction duration wouldn't pay off that well, they want auctions to run the 30% of the time which will get 70% of the (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6497 Twisted Time Train
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I'll be posting reviews here (instead of for the site I used to write for). Some of these reviews are older but unpublished, and there will be many NEW reviews for newer sets (Star Wars, Insectoids, Rock Raiders, etc.). ---...--- 6497 Twisted Time (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Price info on classic space
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(...) Well, he could definitely get more for them elsewhere. But that's not all that goes into setting the price. For example, if I were selling some computer stuff to a friend, I'd make the price a lot lower than what I could get on eBay. (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Yeah, but conceptually, they're very space-like. I'd also consider putting the Aquazone stuff under space too. (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. Gimme a little bit, and I'll post some statistics. (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Firmware
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Check the 9V battery in the tower, and check the position of the RCX in relation to the tower--for the firmware download only, it seems to need to be at about the same level and pretty close together. In one of my projects, a "trambot," the (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex [DAT]
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It seems to me that there are two major "camps" in the CW/CCW debate. A. Face-by-Face Method This method suggests that CW-ness be ultimately evaluated on a face-by-face basis. Each quad in a primitive or part would hold a value of CW,CCW, or (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Maybe a way to hit inaccurate "hard to find" listers on eBay
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Well, I just did it - emailed one of the McDonalds Drive Thru sellers, quoting that paragraph, and pointing out that their listing (which states "This kit is not available in stores and was produced in extremely limited numbers.") might violate it. (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: 8485 uploaded and new xxxx.txt format
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(...) before submitting their post? What's so difficult about a testing a URL -before- pasting it into a message? --Todd (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.scans, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | firmdl3 @ 41.13s
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Hi, on my machine, original firmdl3 took 45.2s to download firm0309.lgo. - I increased packet size to 240 bytes, gaining roughly 2 seconds. - Added packet size prediction and bytewise decoding with a state machine (The decoder spent 50 ms per packet (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: New Meaning to Computer Aided Design
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(...) No offense, but I'd rather view the images full-size at their original location rather than slogging through yellow links and white text against a black and white pattern background somewhere that gets the image links wrong and doesn't even (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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(...) I haven't seen a LEGO commercial in years. I don't watch TV at the right time, I guess. Even so, in any competition involving construction toys, the judges should have some knowledge of what the commercial offerings are. If there was at least (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem)
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| | Maybe a way to hit inaccurate "hard to find" listers on eBay
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eBay has a "Powersellers" program for sellers who do more than $2000 worth of business a month on there. Powersellers are required to give a "Guarantee of Satisfaction". Here's what the Powersellers FAQ has to say: (...) "Accurately Represented" is (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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(...) A very small part of me wishes I had noticed this so I could pick up 4 or 5 of them, mainly for my own use. Then again, I've never quite gotten into the whole freight train thing, so I don't know what good these would do me with nothing but (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Another ebay scammer
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(...) "Credit card orders add $2 convienece charge". Good for them rip off the poor and unsuspecting. Thats the way we like it :( . When does it all end... Eric K. Remove ".nospam" when replying by E-mail. The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Somebody help.
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(...) Yeah, that's a pretty harsh movie. I found parts of it hillariously funny, but I doubt any set of parents would approve of their daughter being taken to see it. (...) I guess it just depends on the situation, the people, etc. By the time I was (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Firmware
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My firmware will not download to the brick under any windows program I have including The origonal lego one. I have tried about 7 different ways, but it only counts up to about 200 until it starts to retransmit. I put it in a perfectly dark room and (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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(...) True. '0 INVERT END' may be allowed as a syntactic convenience to authors. Or 0 INVERT could be rewritten as 0 INVERT [ON|OFF|TOGGLE] where TOGGLE would be the default action. (...) [example snipped] 0 INVERT is different from 0 FACE [CW|CCW] (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Another ebay scammer
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Here's another eBay sale of a cheap S@H item for a ridiculous price: (URL) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [FS] - eBay - McDonald's Promo set, box only - 25 cents
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(...) I'd write 'em off. Either do it their way if you want to maximize profits or sell at SC or Bricks. Buy there if you want, of course. I'm convinced more and more that what eBay wants is for the seller to have every advantage over the buyer, (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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(...) Hooray! :) (...) Hooray! :) Steve (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Got my own "How Dare You" message from eBay ripoff artist
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(...) I agree. (...) I'd like to see it. Remove names, I don't mind. :) (...) Ah, one of the finer things in life! (...) I feel your pain. :) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: I've just overhauled my Lego Website.
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(...) because Ian's page: (URL) describes itself as "Scotlands Premier Website"? I was just wondering if this was coincidence or a hint of friendly competition :) I'm tempted to start my own Scottish Lego website now, although it would have to be (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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Jacob: (...) Steve: (...) Jacob: (...) It happens every once in awhile. Actually, which approach *would* be better? Examining the transformation matrix to determine the state of inversion, and adjusting the CW/CCW setting to correct for it, would (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New meaning to Computer Aided Design...
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(...) If you go here and look at the 4th entry, (URL) a bunch of links. Click the one labeled "various structures" and it brings you to... (URL) from there, there's a bunch ton of photos and renderings. --Todd (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rcx Command Center version 3.0 available
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(...) (you forgot to include the URL :-) (URL) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Rock Raiders IS a Space theme
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(...) Hmm, skeptical. What exactly does it say? Even if Rock Raiders takes place on some other planet out in "space," it's not part of LEGO SYSTEM SPACE™. Rock Raiders is a theme within LEGO SYSTEM UNDERGROUND™. --Todd (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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(...) *INCHING* toward acceptance of the metric system..." [emphasis mine] I saw it noted somewhere that the 2-liter soda bottle is a 2-liter bottle and not a 2.11-quart bottle *only* because the imperial measurement is not given as an alternative. (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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<SNIP> (...) It´s Scala. And they have sparkle moulded into them, so I think that it would somewhat block the sight for the pilot. But maybe it is some new kind of protective windshield ;-) --Tobias (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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Well, in Ldraw once I took a ship I had there, and made a "girl" space theme. White and pink as main, and chrome for the details, then transparent pink windshields. --Tobias Paul Baulch skrev i meddelandet ... (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Interpreting the proposed FACE meta-command
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(...) Recognizing multiple forms of the command shouldn't add much to rendering. Each file can be parsed once, and then the post-parsing results cached, for later re-reference. The FACE meta-command would be stored as an opcode and a single (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I'm famous (or infamous)
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(...) Joe, I didn't walk! I swear! :-, (...) I think that there's a large culture gap between the "Real World" and radio DJ's. (Tom? Are you there? :-) (...) I've always worried about this possibility...my "alter-ego" being discovered and broadcast (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Hello there I know that Busy Bee only order 300, I am a BB regular, they also be getting some 2150, 3225 in soon, i think they may be able to get more 4536, but that will have to wait. And i know that one person have order 200 of these hopper cars, (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files [DAT]
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(...) Forgot the footnote: 1- There's an interesting distinction between 'valid' and 'well-formed' contructions. LDraw will allow line-breaks as whitespace in commands, so: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3001.dat is valid, but it's not well-formed. (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | For Auction, For Trade Technic
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I Have a the following to get rid of. 8839 With Box and manual 8856 With Manual Also i have a 8860 set with manual and box, but the box is in a bad shape (Drawing on the inside) So please send me your offers, or see my wants list on my web page (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Happy Anniversary! LUGNET is a wonderful community. I had reservations at first, because LUGNET news (so to speak) would be a drain on RTL. That is what has happened, and I miss the RTL'ers who haven't come over to LUGNET. OTOH, some neat and (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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Steve: (...) Yes. (...) Yes. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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So I know Busy Bee got in a lot (apparently several hundred) Blue Hopper Cars last week (or so)... and they're all gone now. I'm just curious about this phenomenon. Anyone know who found out first, and how? Who's our "patient zero" that started this (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Happy birthday, LUGNET! You are far more coherent than I was at one year old! :-, (...) It has far exceeded my expectations. Accessing RTL was hard for me -- our news server at work wouldn't send messages I posted to any other news server. (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Track names (was Re: To Tore Eriksson)
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(...) I'm curious Chris, in what sets was that the case ? And do these gray ones have those "negative" tapered ends, just like the old blue track had ? In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes: (...) Gimme a set number for "the wildwest miningish" (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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Due to ingorance of the metric system, these candies will melt in your hands and not in your mouth... (URL) to .off-topic.fun Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn7vhi1s.s9g.....bu.edu... (...) You're not alone. (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Standardized Inventory File Format?
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(...) Hmm, interesting. Are there any XML writers, to convert flat-ASCII to flat-XML? Steve (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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(...) Yes, they do. In the example above, the first meta-command, 0 TRANSLATE 20 0 0, would persist until the end of the file. (...) I think I know the answer to this question, but just to be sure: is the 0 INVERT meta-command transparent to (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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(...) I've been thinking the exact opposite -- mirroring should be a valid method for turning subfiles inside-out, and the software doesn't need to do anything special to deal with it (except to notice the inversion, and pass that info on to the (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Interpreting the proposed FACE meta-command
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(...) Why not recognize it all ways: 0 FACE ACW 0 FACE ANTICLOCKWISE 0 FACE CCW 0 FACE CLOCKWISE 0 FACE COUNTERCLOCKWISE 0 FACE CW 0 FACE DOUBLESIDED 0 FACE DS 0 FACE UNKNOWN This adds a bit to the parser, but not so much. The recommended standard (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) No (like Gary said). Two reasons: 1. The 0 FACE directive would be an operative switch, not a global setting. This is convenient, but it is also necessary in some cases. Most importantly, it would allow the 0 FACE meta-statement to appear (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) That's what we're doing now--figuring out what the standard should be. Both the function and the syntax. But "standard" is an odd term in this case. In my mind the LDraw standard is defined as "code which is recognized and interpreted by (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) Neither do I, but I also know how hard it is to visually check a part for errors. (...) How does that work? Is it based on what the majority of the rays deterimine? I probably need to re-read some of the messages in this thread, to get a (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 8485 uploaded and new xxxx.txt format
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hmmm, this must not be my day. Third try: Todd: could we get a preview option like slashdot? (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Re: 8485 uploaded and new xxxx.txt format
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dang it! I always seem to type urls the new xxxx.txt format example is: (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Price info on classic space
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Hello, my friend in school has got a lot of lego from his big brother. Now, in that lego, there are several classic space figs and models. I have always wished that he someday could sort together some sets and sell them to me. Now, he has. Today, he (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | 8485 uploaded and new xxxx.txt format
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I just uploaded all 140 pages of 8485 (whew!). (URL) please use the following format for xxxx.txt: (see (URL) for example) product_number: [number] us_name: [name] catalog_year: [year] instruction_year: [year] element_count: [number] mini_figures: (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Re: Maybe we can meet
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Suzanne D. Rich wrote in message <37F8CA6D.73573C3B@m...it.edu>... (...) That's more like what I had in mind, thanks! Eric (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: HB for science project?
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(...) I'm afraid that I'm not qualified to recommend any PICs, but I do know about programming. Basic can be used to implement fairly complex algorithms, but it's not easy to use it for the really tricky data structures, and it would be almost (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: New Meaning to Computer Aided Design
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If anyone's interested, I've posted reasonably-sized versions of the Brandeis University photos at www.wordsmithdigital.com ... click on the Filing Cabinet icon. (see (URL) ) --The WordMeister Doug Wilcox WordSmith Digital Document Services 403 VFW (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Group Idea
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OK, so my minifig-scale models of Barbie and Tux the Penguin have nowhere to go? -gyug (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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There will be support added for "0 INCLUDE filename.dat" in the next release, which will insert the text from filename.dat into the current file. This differs from a type 1 line, since the scope stack is not pushed and popped. For example, "0 COLOUR (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New starwars sets.
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(...) be, (...) It's been officially announced? All I've heard so far is rumours. <hmm...> The website doesn't have anything: (URL) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | SELL: Pirates #6271 and #6296
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Hi ! On my holiday I found two mint sets (absolutly original), Pirates #6271 and #6296. Anyone interested (shipping would be from Germany) ? Please mail to: Adrian.Rohnfelder@milupa.de Cheers Adrian (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Maybe we can meet
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There are a few Bed & Breakfasts in the Harvard Square, Cambridge area. I'd have to look them up. Might try the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce online for a Bed & Breakfast listing. Sometimes they're only about $45 a night (shared bathroom). There's (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: RCX Controlled Air Compressor Tester
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(...) So I guess I should use lubricants made especially for plastic and rubber huh. Else you should probably just leave it alone. I wonder... How bad will the get screwed up? Anyone know? I mean if you use say machine oil(what I use) and it will (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | looking for bricks
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Hi Legomaniacs ! I'm looking for black, white or gray bricks, especially black 1x1 and 2x1 and all kind from the colors named before. I like to buy and/or to trade, I can offer a lot of red bricks, and also some blue and yellow one (and some special (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Lubricating Cylinders
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Graphite wouldn't necessarily harm the construction, but isn't it a bit messy? I would think a silicone-based lubricant would work great and not be harmful. (My Dad used to use something very expensive and silicone-based for various (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | I'm famous (or infamous)
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I had a coworker tell me that she heard something on her radio this morning about Lego. They were saying that the majority of buyers are adult males making purchases for themselves (I'm quite curious where the info came from). They made mention of (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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To my vast disappointment, these are Mars-the-candy promo items, not Mars-the-planet. *sigh* (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Modern Police Department
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37F7A09F.2DB200...ger.net... (...) Yes, and it's about a creative way to show off lots of different creations. (...) Every quality .dat should eventually make it into Datsville. Some (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | FS : Mars promo sets
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See them at (URL) A. (URL) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: When should the 2000 Catalogue Appear?
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(...) Before sending this off to lugnet.off.topic, I wanted to add one thing about when the ANNO DOMINI method of year counting stared. From what I remember about a 6 part PBS (USA public television channel) series called "Legacy" with Michael Wood (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lubricating Cylinders
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> > > (Anyone found a safe and effective lubricant for them?) Graphite? As is used in locks? (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Datsville tracked excavator/bulldozer
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Nice compact but realistic-looking design. -John Van Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:m3n1u04zvy.fsf@....uio.no... (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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Gary Williams wrote in message ... (...) No, never needed, since "0 INVERT" is a toggle! (...) Since INVERT is directly related to the CW and CCW parameters of the FACE meta-command, why not let it be yet another parameter to FACE ? I think the (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Why are there so many Lego Sale on Ebay right now?
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Why are there so many Lego Sale on Ebay right now? I've just done a search (titles & descriptions), and there were 1818 lots up for auction. This appears to be way over the normal. Is there a reason for this? Do ebay have another promotion on right (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: another thought on "Bid Siphoning"
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Ok, what is "Bid Siphoning"? David Wiggins wrote in message <37F53DAC.4CBC8584@o...mp.net>... (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Maybe we can meet
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(...) I don't know anything about these places, other than that they have a web page, but they might be worth looking into: (URL) Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> (URL) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) LUGnet is a great community, and I've throughly enjoyed spending time here. It's been really neat watching it grow, and evolve. Thanks, Todd & Suzanne! James (URL) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | NQC 3.0 is where?
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Mark's NQC page can be found at: (URL) for the great piece of software, -Phil (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Mindfest
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I just want to say that I am very bitter. My mother is coming to school for her last visit of my college career that weekend, and so I will miss out on meeting Markus, Kekoa, Eric, and others. Oh well- everyone who is going, enjoy it and take good (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) You need to have someone to check the parts, take a look at the picture at (URL) (from 105.DAT), there's a missing face and the program won't be able to handle that. There are other parts like that, just start checking and you'll see. Leonardo (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader
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(...) Is this the movie where there are guys competing in unassisted (except by a huge weight) deep dives? Those guys are mental... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Brick by Brick Auction Update #3
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Hi, This is a Brick by Brick Auction Update: 10/4 -10:30 A.M. Visit: (URL) auction rules, bidding info, and daily updates. Items Going Twice (G2) with no new bids by 7:00 PM EDT tonight will be SOLD. Lot#, Pieces, Description, Status, Current Bid, (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | LEGO Builders needed at MIT for MindFest event
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Hi folks, I'm forwarding a request on behalf of a fellow student of mine in the Epistemology & Learning Group at MIT. His name is Rick Borovoy. He's a friendly guy and open to any feedback or questions. If you'd like to check out some of the nifty (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma.wor, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.vt)
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| | Re: RCX Controlled Air Compressor Tester
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(...) Thanks, I would certainly want my pneumatics to last. Wish the pumps and cylinders could come with a little leaflet on their proper use and care, together with a small tube of the approved lubricant. (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Maybe we can meet
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I plan to attend the upcoming Mindfest event, and may also be spending the week before that in the Boston area. - If you are a LEGO (robotics) enthousiast and would like to get together sometime during that week (18-22 oct) please let me know. - (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | people in Boston area
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I plan to attend the upcoming Mindfest event, and may also be spending the week before that in the Boston area. - If you are a LEGO (robotics) enthousiast and would like to get together sometime during that week (18-22 oct) please let me know. - (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Mindfest
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I plan to attend the upcoming Mindfest event, and may also be spending the week before that in the Boston area. - If you are a LEGO (robotics) enthousiast and would like to get together sometime during that week (18-22 oct) please let me know. - (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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Paul Baulch: (...) Some of the Paradisa sets are actually ok (but pink ABS is much lighter than ordinary ABS - the pink bricks are at least allways at the top when you look for other colours :-) (...) I don't know, but I would use the purple roofs (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: New meaning to Computer Aided Design...
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Should've looked before I typed. Going to www.brandeis.edu and hitting the news link led me to this: (URL) a couple of images with it. --Doug Wilcox -----Original Message----- From: The WordMeister <dwilcox@wordsmithdigital.com> To: (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX Controlled Air Compressor Tester
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(...) I would also restrain from using oil. If you open a hand pump (the easiest pneumatic to open) you notice that there is a clear grease lubricating the piston. I would guess this is some type of silicone product. I don't think petroleum oil is (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New meaning to Computer Aided Design...
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Dagnabbit, does anyone have a link to some photos of what the AI designed? -----Original Message----- From: JR Conlin <jrconlin@email.com> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Date: Sunday, October 03, 1999 8:41 PM Subject: New (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: R2-D2 Obsession (was Re: What about the Micro Scout?)
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We went shopping (ugh!) this weekend, and found _Star Wars_ pajamas and slippers on serious markdown at K-Mart. My 4-year-old son Isaac, who built his own MindStorms robot at age 3 (I'll post pics when I can find them--it's a simple contraption he (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Woseidihrdenn?
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(...) dazukommt. Wie, an Frauen verkaufst Du die Dinger und mir sagst Du alles Eigenbedarf, bin jetzt beleidigt. a. PS: Habe ein neues Schimpfwort: Pizza-Flitzer :-) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: Shearer,Shears and Sheep
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Jonathan: (...) Could I get you to post a LDraw or POV-Ray rendering of this model. - I am mostly interested in the sheep. - Reading the file, it looks like my latter suggestion[1] and I would like to see how good I am at building without bricks (or (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Woseidihrdenn?
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(...) Hier ist der zweite Borkum-Pirat. Habe die beiden original verpackten Sets 6271 und 6296 erworben und wäre bereit sie zu verkaufen. Aber da auch ich Pirat bin, natürlich nur für ordentlich Gold, äh Geld. (...) Der Doe gehoert mir, er hat mir (...) (27 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.de)
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