 | | Re: ISD build record —Todd Thuma
| | | | (...) Hold on a second! A clarification in this post must be made. There are eleven (11) people in the picture and eleven (11) people named in the effort. That means that 11 people completed the ISD build in 1 hour, 2 minutes and 28 seconds not 10. (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Kevin Blocksidge
| | | | | | (...) SNIP of silly calculations (...) The eleventh man, Jan Beyer, is a LEGO employee who operated the stop watch. I wasn't there, I just read the list of names more carefully than you ;) ~Kevin (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | | | (...) Maybe so, but Todd had more fun writing his post than you did. (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Kevin Blocksidge
| | | | | | | | (...) Maybe so, but mine was a joke too. So there, Lar, "plus plus" that, why don't ya? (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | | | | | (...) Actually, I did. Sorry if you didn't get it! (c.f. Lenny's reply... I'll try to write more slowly next time) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Leonard Hoffman
| | | | | | | (...) I'm going to have to question you on that, Lar. Kevin spent a lot of fun time composing that reply. Sure, it is a shorter reply than Todd's, but Kevin is a bit .. umm.. slower. Each word he wrote filled Kevin with a giggly-joy that simply (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Tony Alexander
| | | | | | (...) Todd, Some (not-so-serious) Questions from the mathematically uninitiated: 1) Does 'stopping the time' count as a contribution? Isn't there usually some sort of official timekeeper separate from the team to keep things honest? 2) Does (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Matthew Jeffery
| | | | | (...) <SNIP> Really? Subtracting on one side to make 10 and adding on the other to make 11 is not doing the same function on both sides. Just the maths pedant in me speaking, but last I checked, when doing statistical, numerical, any kind of (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Todd Thuma
| | | | | (...) Snipped for brevity (...) I would also like to point out that the BrickFest PDX 2004 event was held at sea level and the latest "attempt" was carried out in Germany at an altitude greatly above sea level. The differences in atmospheric density (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Burkhard Schloemer
| | | | | | (...) On the other hand, the Berlin builders had to fight the infamous "Berliner Luft", so I guess that evens out things a bit :P (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: ISD build record —Matthew Jeffery
| | | | | (...) <snipped> (...) seal level eh? So you're admitting that the PDX builders had assistance from a slippery marine mammal? This means that the PDX record is even longer, as an 11th member of the team was added (the seal) without anyone noticing! (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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