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does anyone know the molecular weight of legos? How much is one mole of our favorite building bricks? Ever since i began chemistry, this question has been bothering me. Fire up the ole mass specs and let's get some data! (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.general)
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| | A few scenes from east Allercus
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Hello, Well, after experimenting with another batch of parts from bricklink, I built a small village module. (Unfortunately, it's about 1.5 times larger than MM standard. 24x24) Here's the gallery. (URL) some more description behind the pictures. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Lego sonnet
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I hope this is the right group to post this, i didn't seem to find a .poetry section... Here's my sonnet i wrote for English class, It is really bad but it was my first attempt at iambic pentameter. I based it on the italian sonnet style but i (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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(...) Ask Kevin Loch how he generates the Brickshelf thumbnails... ROSCO (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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(...) How about resizing the images via code. i.e. look at the dimensions of the image and scale it down to meet your requirements. I guess it depends on the type of code you are working in, I know that Java has something, (I believe its part of the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Which weighs more?
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Thanks Eric! :-) Dave "Eric Harshbarger" <eric@ericharshbarger.org> wrote in message news:HB7Es3.6z7@lugnet.com... (...) holes (...) to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Program available that will make your life easier
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:D, that's OK. You can show me up!! I've only been doing this 6 months... You may have been programming for years! -Rob "Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMO...tninet.se> wrote in message news:HB8pCn.uq@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Lego Layoffs
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From WFSB-CBS Channel 3 in Hartford, CT Danish toy maker Lego is laying off workers from its Enfield-based operations. The company's North American operations are based in Enfield. A company spokesman says today's 72 layoffs are part of the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Which weighs more?
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(...) Hmmm interesting. My conclusion from that would be that the "cylinder" containing the holes is significantly thinner than the brick walls. ROSCO (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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(...) I have thought about that a lot. The problem is that it increases the amount of time I have to moderate... meaning, what if someone submits an image that is 4mb? Do I reject it and then go back and forth via email to explain why? Or do I open (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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(...) as long as i'm not the only one on the list :) (...) how about hosting the thumbnails? each thumbnail should be in the range of 2.5kb, so even at 1000 instructions, you'd be under 5mb. (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) Very good ideas. So what would be interesting is a way that users could upload a text file or something that contains description data for the parts... something more "formalized" than a simple dump from MLCad, but not much more than that. (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) Noted and added to the list. I have noticed this problem too, and really the key is that I need to add the ability to add an instruction to more than one category. This is a major requirement and first step. Once that's done, then I need to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Jake, I don't know how hard this would be, but how about a searchable flag or label for instructions that are alternate models from another set or set(s)? This would be good for folks who are looking to see what neat models they can build (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Program available that will make your life easier
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"Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> skrev i meddelandet news:HB6tu7.JqI@lugnet.com... (...) Well, as you noticed, it's not so small - you need to download one or more VB dll:s to get it to work (up to 2-4 MB). A 300kB Delphi prog. wouldn't need (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) you asked, so here it goes :) there seem to be a lot of instructions mis-categorized, like lots of vehicles directly under town, instead of being in the vehicle sub-category. i realize that this is a big job, so here's the idea -- how about (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| | Dark Red 1x2 plates too short??
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Hello, I decided to build a dark red building and went with plates since they are so readily available. In building, I had to stack about 18 1x2's next to 18 2x4 wing plates (like from the mini jedi starfighter). They do not come out to be the same (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) << Major great ideas snip-o-rama >> Jason, great point, and thanks for the suggestions. I will try to figure out a good way to get this changed up. You are probably right, the nav might be a bit hidden. So on this front, what else would you (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Which weighs more?
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(...) I had never seen one until two tan ones showed up in Yoda. However, I just call them 1 x 16 'bricks'. I only think of 'beam' when referring to the Technic versions. I'm not sure how much it matters... they're both LEGO pieces. :) Here's a list (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Which weighs more?
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(...) You can actually use nothing but LEGO bricks to answer the original question. Since the question was "Which weighs more?" I went on the assumption that he didn't care "how much does each beam weigh?" but rather which one is heavier as compared (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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