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I was browsing lego.com and noticed the spelling of "February" on these pages: (URL) really set a good example for kids learning to spell... --Bram (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Calling for Box Status and New Rule to vote on
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Doug Finney wrote in message ... (...) He's making an analogy to auction sniping on places like eBay where people with nothing better to do with their time hover over auctions which are about to end, and chuck in a bid which might win the auction, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Proud New RIS owner... tires wanted
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Yep, I did that too ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Pirate's Lost Island
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Lovely piece of work. -- Paul Davidson Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu> wrote in message news:FnM9AK.MAB@lugnet.com... (...) Lost (...) the (...) following (...) room) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: "Just Build" at www.lego.com
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(...) oops! above should say: "No workie for Macs..." I tried this building thing, btw, under Virtual PC. Only has like 9 pieces. difficult working in the default point of view. slow. can't save your work, mainly frustrating. Has a cool model (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Can no one here spell "millennium"?
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And am I just being anal? :) -- Paul Davidson (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Classic Castle Figs
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Bryan Wong wrote in message ... (...) add (...) enlighten (...) relatively (...) be (...) I've acquired several knights procession/tournament style figures in various figure lots from eBay. Frank (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: On the subject of gluing
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Terry, I use acetone for gluing. I put a piece of blotter paper in a small metal container, and add just enough MEK or acetone to make it very wet. Then I push to bottom of a brick into the blotter paper and hold it there for 1-2 seconds. Then snap (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New sets, pictures at lego.com
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(...) Shiri- FYI (For Your Information) MM stands for 2000 (M is latin number for 1000) HTH (Hope This Helps), John (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: Cool Webpage at Legomedia
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Leroy wrote in message <20000101123943.1582...oo.com>... (...) What is new there? I didn't see anything terribly interesting, but maybe I missed something. Frank (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: detecting goal objects at a distance
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(...) I've read this tip several times. I experimented with it last night, and the difference between blocking and not blocking the sensor was minimal. My light sensor must not bleed much light directly across. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? Re: (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: detecting goal objects at a distance
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(...) IR Photography, of course. Lookup Kodak HIE, for example. The filters you are looking for are Wratten #87 and 87C. If you look at them they appear to be black because they pass no visible light. I believe the difference between the two is (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Not Craig-0 Lego, but if it was...
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(...) ~ not bad at all! it's a great idea, and the concept and the execution are pretty well done. the use of ufo armour is especially nice! _if_ this were a craigo-lego, however: ~ the face would look a bit different...(like it was printed for one (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 3D Geometry...
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Dan, I have modeled a few lego parts in Tri-Spectives modeling system. The bricks snap together (auto-align). I think Tri-Spectives is a lot easier to use than AutoCad. See my web page for some examples of plates and gears. (URL) - pete. (...) -- (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FS: Two complete '99 Throwbot Super Sets
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Each set contains eight Throwbots, set numbers 8500-8507, packaged in a special "Super Set" box. I purchased them at my local Sam's Club. I have two of these for sale, you can buy either one or both. One box of eight Throwbots is unopened. The other (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Pneumatic tube sources
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Point your browser to: (URL) got all their catalogs in PDF format in their site. You can also request hard copies - the appropriate contact info is there as well. It'll take a bit of fiddling, finding a local distributor, but they make LOTS and LOTS (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Speed of RCX interpreting bytecodes: slow
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While working on the barcode scanner I decided to see just how fast the RCX could loop. A simple NQC program can do about 1000 counter loop iterations in about 100 ticks, or 1 iteration/ms. This is shockingly slow. The native H8/329 is clocked at (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Toys R Us Experience
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(...) If you want to question the manager's behaviour, it's best to go over his head. It's a corporation, so find out who his superior is--at the very least, you'll get a complete explanation of why he behaved the way he did, straight from the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Question How do we know if Brad is for real?
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(...) But I see taking it to this extreme after many people have come up with evidence in Brad's defense childish. (...) You're absolutely right. I guess I was too tired when I posted after getting less than 2 hours of sleep before to word it that (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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Actually, there is a Chinese company that sells rip-offs of some of the smaller sets here in dollar stores in Canada. The boxes look enough like Lego to fool you, but the pieces themselves look to be of much poorer quality when you take them out. -- (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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