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(...) This was the first set I bought that brought me out of my dark ages:-) -John (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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This sounds something like the other message that I posted last night. (...) there (...) send (...) you (...) Remember that to get TLG to work with us, we need to be flexible. And we need to start getting a group want list with alternatives. Jodi (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) And as if he hasn't suffered enough indignities in this thread, I spelled Michael Gasperi's name wrong. Memory OK, but verification of facts better! At least I was able to help him secure one of the coveted "MindFest Staff" tee- shirts. (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Mike's Train and Launch Command Auction Update 7
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ADVANCING STARTS TOMORROW! Any items not bid on in the next 24 hours will advance to going once. 1. This is a Once, Twice, Sold auction. 2. To bid send email to mdarnett@nycap.rr.com. I will try to post updates daily. 3. Minimum raises: 0-$50 by $1, (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Well, people already ARE doing things like this. I buy sets that have some parts I want but also parts others want. But I'm getting tired of it. If you want to keep doing the buy/sort/auction/sell thing that's up to you, but you'll never be (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: something nelug could do
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I would recommend against such a thing. sounds unprofessional. TLG may only find such request for contact annoying and see it as coming from a niave view. It also may just support their vision of fanatical young men who live for toys and sci-fi. (no (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I'll be posting pics and my opinions of them when they become a reality. For things like this, minifig weapons I'll probably never see produced again, I don't have a problem at all with "artificially" creating them. (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) I'd like to mention several other people (not on Eric's list) that I was very pleased to meet/meet again at MindFest: Dave Baum Ben Erwin Bob Frankston Michael Gaspieri Ralph Hempel Fred Martin Markus Noga Kekoa Proudfoot Mitchel Resnick I'm (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Dark Forest FOTW
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(...) NNNNOOO...OOO!!!...!!! Someone found my secret stash! There were 23 of these at the start of the year. I've bought four. I have kept hoping that they would lower the price further (all 23 went unsold until July, when they did an inventory. (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) That may or may not be true, though. I remember reading several accounts that indicate that TLG makes just enough of a part to fill the need for that year's sets. So just because a certain Model Team truck has a couple of train doors in it (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Another AT-AT site
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Shaun, First, I want to applaud your obvious dedication. Your AT AT is even better than I had hoped for, and I'm not saying that lightly. You obviously have the knack for capturing the "soul" of the Starwars Vehicles in Lego. It goes without saying (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) Yes, well, you're a brick-mangling heretic, so.... :) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: MOTOR DRIVERS
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(...) Hi Paul, I don't know how the handyboard is protected against overload but one thing is for sure : if you overload the driver chip ... this one will fry up.In worst case you'll fry the board as well. If a driver chip's maximum current is 1 (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Reigonal User Group building centers
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(...) See, we don't have that much to contribute. Maybe $20 quarterly or something. And I don't think that all 32 members are likely to even participate. Which doesn't make quite as an exciting curve, but could probably still be helpful. (...) Yeah, (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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Ralph Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:000101bf1f27$4d...@pro150... (...) Hrmph. Ralph, how do you think I feel. I was left out too and it was implied the panel was all software. At least Wired has a quote from the audience member in (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: MOTOR DRIVERS
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It won't necessarily fry the chip. L293s (and the TI equivalent) have a thermal protection mode. If the chip gets too hot, it will turn itself off. Most of the time, this protects the chip against over-current. However, it is still possible to fry (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Dark Forest FOTW
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(...) I'm interested in a couple more of these, and would offer you $60 each for them to be shipped to me, you get to keep whatever the difference between that and the actual cost with shipping. (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Reigonal User Group building centers
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(...) NO! (...) Like any club, members could have guests but you would be strongly encouraged to join. Plus if you wanted to go by yourself you would need a membership. (...) People will always have personal property, and I'm not sure anyone would (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) Yes, amusing. But really, part of the problem was that we didn't want to scare people off -- that's why Eric didn't want to have signs at first. I guess we underestimated the lack of respect people would have. (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I don't know if they'd like that. Standard corporate behavior is to be very wary of stuff that is offered for free. What if they start to sell a pack based on your part list, and then you sue them, claiming that they "stole your idea for a (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) Hey, if you do this again next year, I can fix that problem. I'll wear black combat/duty style boots(which I hope to be getting for my 16th bday when I can become a jr. firefighter), then I'll get some black cargo pants and wear the boots over (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) Hey, if you do this again next year, I can fix that problem. I'll wear black combat/duty style boots(which I hope to be getting for my 16th bday when I can become a jr. firefighter), then I'll get some black cargo pants and wear the boots over (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) just (...) this (...) Yes, this will obviosly not work in such extreme cases as this. I am sure that there are plenty of cases for which it WILL work though. And my point was to build it up to the point where it COULD order your parts directly (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | BayLUG Train Gathering...
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Hi Gang, I'm just back from two weeks in Japan with a JR "Green Car" pass. Lots of quick train sightings from Shinkansen trains...and lots of fast shinkansen blowing through stations. Very little chance to get into train yards on foot, due to a (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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First of all : congratulations with the VERRY LARGE Star Wars models !!!! superb,cool,waw, .... (...) at (...) I displayed also once in a technical school (open door day's - only for 2 afternoons !!) and i got some moving parts as a (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | something nelug could do
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Ok, so here's something we (or other LUGs, for that matter) could do: try to arrange a slightly-formal meeting with an actual representative of TLG. We could show them stuff we've done and talk about how immensely huge the adult lego fan base is, (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Microfig 928 Galaxy Explorer
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(...) and please make some .dat files! :) Jeff "That is definitely not a common spell!" (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Reigonal User Group building centers
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(...) Yeah, I've thought about this. Downsides that come immediately to mind: - what happens if someone leaves the group? do they get a portion? - what happens if i don't contribute? am i a second-class citizen? can I still play? - people are just (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: Reigonal User Group building centers
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(...) My only nits about this are: - Storage of pieces outside someone's home could get pretty expensive. Where could the needed square footage be obtained cheaply? Hmmm... Perhaps in a dedicated long-term storage unit? - Storage of pieces inside (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Keep those movie titles coming!
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I am going to post a list of the greatest adventure movies that could be related to the Lego Adventurer line on Friday. Give me any titles you might want considered. Also remember that I am specifically looking for those movies that relate to (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Does anyone think TLG would listen to some simple bucket or accessory pack requests? In other words, I am suggesting we actually compose a few bucket distributions, and a few accessory packs -- literally listing the part numbers and (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I need help
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(...) in (...) to (...) Hey Julie I finally found it and emailed the author for a scan. Thanks for your help. I do appreciate it. Mark L (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: LEGO Droid Devel Kit TV Ad
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(...) I saw that later on this morning on Channel 4, I quite liked it - the R2D2 mindstorms robot actually looks quite good dancing to the funky disco music. No actually, that sounds just too surreal, maybe I dreampt it? Richard PS. Much better than (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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(...) you're right. and "princess bride" has one of the best swordfighting sequences ever caught on film, to boot. "young "frankenstein" is my personal favorite of brooks' films. another good funnny adventure film that i saw recently was "Start the (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Instructions on building Jonathan's "Hank"
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Hi all, O'Reilly has just released a new book on Lego Mindstorms Robots, that provides tons of excellent tips and ideas on how to take your Lego Robots further. Check out the first two chapters in the serialization of "The Unofficial Guide to Lego (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) I thought you had suggested it, it must have been Steve Bliss. (...) of (...) I guess I was wrong about this. (...) Indian/Southeast (...) strong (...) added. (...) As always listening to you Bruce is like listening to the Gospels - everytime (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Lego event in Glasgow
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(...) It's only a 12 min train journey for me, so I'll wander along :) If I work out any trades beforehand then I may bring those, or do you mean to bring something to show? For the gift thing I'm thinking of between 100 and 200 normal bricks, (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Reigonal User Group building centers
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After Mindfest and in particular the NELUG meeting, I'm wondering if the Reigonal user groups could set up building centers. The idea is to pool resources to enhance everyone's building experience. Other obvious benefits would be: - pooling (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) Yeah that's what you get for picking a weird old-fashioned obscure computer language. *grin* (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: I need help
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(...) Maybe I am crazy but the power search on today's date 10-25-99 gives nothing about a 1999 UK catalog. I find plenty of robotics and star wars articles, but nothing like what you are describing. Please give any more advice you might have. Mark (...) (27 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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