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...Or in other words, I just visited the MIT media lab. Words fail me, but I'll try and decribe what I saw... -Lt pink, dk pink, green, and brown bricks by the bin -Bins upon bins of grey bricks -even more bins... with plates this time -tens of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Language, dear, language... =) ~Nathan *...would have also died and gone to heaven if he saw all that too* (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Hay, didja see anyone LUGNET-ish while you were there? :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Sorry... my computer connection was slow and I couldn't see what I was writing... didn't notice I was repeating repeating myself myself. -Shiri (...) :-) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Nope... :-( -Shiri (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) before (...) wanted to go and check it out. The most Legos I've ever seen are the ones I have- about 30 lbs. or so. There's one thing I don't envy you for; I didn't have to WALK OUT of the building! ;) -Chris (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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Drat! I'll probably never get to go there, but just in case, is it open to the public? If I happen to be in Boston, can you just show up and go in, or do you have to have to know someone???? Thanks Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Yep! (...) Just show up and walk in. If you're ever in Boston, drop me a note and I'll show you where it is. I just now realized, after 8 months of passing within 50 meters of the building every week, that it was the media lab... <bangs head (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) NO! It's not! It's not actually "open to the public" in the usual "open house" sense, like a library or a state university computing center. Yes, the outside doors to the building happen to be unlocked during the day, but that doesn't mean (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Oh, OK. I didn't perceive it as such, but I see your point. Sorry, I was just reiterating my experience. (...) OK, I see that too. However, they didn't seem to have any problem with my walking in and looking around. I didn't touch the displays (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) I meant as far as the use of the word "damned", it's not a really nice word to be using, ya know? It could be considered bad launguage by some around here. ~Nathan. (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Er... 'Language', not 'Launguage'... hehehe. =) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah, I understood what you meant - I just didn't notice. I don't consider "damned" to be considered bad in the right context - but when repeated, it seems harsher and less nice (IMO). I wouldn't have said it that anyway if I had noticed that (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) I guess this is a little late, but welcome to the states, Shiri. =) Let me just say you do a really good job of writing in English, better than a lot of people who were born here... I love putting dashes and commas in my sentances, I can't (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks! The only place I really feel welcome around here is lugnet... but that's a long story... (...) Me either... but my teacher says I should avoid dashes and parenthesis, and switch to commas - but who listens to her? (well, I do on some (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) IIRC, Suzanne's office was righty inside the cube...maybe she wasn't there. I was discouraged that all the bins of parts were covered up at MindFest. I wanted to try building some of my virtual-only models, but couldn't with the heaps of parts (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) my (...) :) I use way more dashes and elipsises (elipses?) in my email than in other writing--I suppose it's more conversational that way... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) She wasn't there - I asked... :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrwnoL.Fyu@lugnet.com... (...) am... (...) word to (...) here. (...) when (...) that (...) and (...) it's (...) because (...) say (...) english (...) Shiri, you just moved this Sept.? You are (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Well, I did live here when I was 3-6. So it's not like it's all new to me. Still rough at times, though. (...) I'll quote my math teacher on his favorite line: "Thinking is *HARD*!" (...) But thinking in two languages is so much harder than (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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Some years ago I walked in to an engineering building at MIT and summoned up the nerve to ask some professors what they were working on. They had been meeting in an open central area before splitting up to their offices. To my amazement, the first (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) heheh... when I moved to Boston, started taking math at BHS, and in the first test I got a 10 (out of 100). Definitely didn't make a good impression on my teacher. It took two months before I finally caught up with the terminology... :/ After (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.il)
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(...) For the record, ellipsis points. And yes, I use them far too often myself ... best LFB (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You mean triple dots?.. I have the same problem, I have too much of them... But can't avoid the addiction...:-) Selçuk (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) In formal writing, your teacher has a good point. In conversational writing, who cares? Steve (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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