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(...) Hey Chris- it was really great to meet you last weekend, and I had a lot of fun looking through your pics. And since I missed out on shooting the mountain in action, I was really glad to see these two shots: In the first one, it looks like (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, FTX)
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(...) Sorry, as a paranoid geek I distrust any comms that are encrypted with less than a 1024 bit key, thus wifi will NEVER make it with me :D 10 or 100MBit ethernet should be fine. I will be bringing 8 port Ethernet hub with me anyhow. -- (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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I second what Ashley said. You rock Keith! We just wanted the "wall"-movement to happen up in the Pacific NW. -mark (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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Hey all, I finally had some alone quiet time to do the picture thing. My images of all of NWBC, as well as a bit of our (Eric Sophie and me) roadtrip, are now online. (URL) I had so much fun out there. It was great to meet new people (Marks 1,2,3, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.people, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) RE: PowerPoint size Apologies for not warning earlier... yes - it contains a lot of pictures - almost 100 I believe. RE: Timings. Yes, I uploaded the same presentation used during the convention, which had 2-3 second timings to keep audience (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: The Great American Biomechanical Bricks Northern USA Tour 2003
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(...) Eric's on the road again. He just left my place, headed for Felix Greco's. We went and had dinner with my mom and sister last night, and knocked a few back at my local tavern. Good times with good people. And to Ruth, you've got quite the son. (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, FTX)
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(...) I can bring it, if we have access to a routed or natted network. 802.11g, backward compatible with 802.11b. (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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(...) That would be totally awesome! Got a wifi (802.11) node you can bring? But even if not it will be great. Thanks! (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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(...) Can I bring a 300' ethernet cable roll and a 12 port switch with us? :-) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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(...) It has just about any store you'll need... electronics : no problem, photocopy no problem, Internet cafe : no problem. Supermarkets and such are around the corner even. The rest is in the center, but available (these days every town with more (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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(...) Good fun! Like Tim said, the timing is a little off 'cause it changes frames just after all the text visualize on some of them. A word of warning for non-broadband users; The file is ~25.2MB! (zipping it it became 24.8MB). (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well played. Very funny! :-) A small bit of feedback on the slide show - it went a little too fast to read the captions and see all that was going on in the image. Perhaps slow it down a couple seconds? -Tim (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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For those of you classic theme fans, the Classic Wars continued at Northwest BrickCon with Episode 3: The Battle Between Good and Shpleem. What is the Classic Wars? Why it's a good natured and prankster-style competition between the castle and space (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: NWBC 2003 Post Mortem
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(...) You raise the interesting question of just what is NWBC? NWBC is clearly first and foremost an "expo" event. This is not a bad thing, but participants need to understand that. Now it also happens that NWBC has some "after hours" time where (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | Re: Services in Zwolle (was Re: Help with registering and accommodation
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I guess your best bet is an email to this address: info@vvvzwolle.nl VVV in the Netherlands is Tourist Information. They can probably answer your questions. Zwolle is not too big a town (100.000 people. To put it in perspective: Amsterdam has (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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| | Re: NWBC 2003 Post Mortem
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In lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, Mark Neumann wrote: <snipped> I'm responding only to the case for/against the mall as a location. (...) Not at all. The sq footage is about 2/3 and broken up. Further, the mall is providing the space because it can't (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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(...) This was my first time attending NWBC. I've attended BrickWest once also. As an attendee, the one major feedback item I have is "why did I pay the extra $20?" I feel like I should have just brought my MOCs for display and stand around for free (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | Services in Zwolle (was Re: Help with registering and accommodation
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(...) How big is Zwolle, and what kind of general stores and suchlike stuff does it have? Will it have a photocopy shop? An electronics shop where phone adapters can be purchased for other countries (such as DK)? An internet cafe if I can't get my (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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(...) We stayed here in 2001. Cheapest hotel, but the room is not much.... Like, we wished we had payed more for a room :-) We had to take 6 stairs to get to our room, packed with loads of Lego. We won't go back over there. Oh, and we had to pay in (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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| | Re: NWBC 2003 Post Mortem
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(...) Free shouldn't be underestimated- and the location this year provided a nice surrounding but very little foot traffic. I think we'd be likely to actually get more traffic inside any mall than what we got this year. If we simply can't (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, FTX)
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