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Which reminds me of one of my fave acronyms... for an editor somewhat like the world's best editor. MINCE = MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs (...) As for what I keep in *my* wallet? (this *is* .geek, after all)... a vi reference card. vi is the devil's (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: General Box #4 - I gave it to someone at the meeting
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Crud, I didn't know there was another Jambalaya box, or I would have traded into it! (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) letters (...) but (...) This calls for something I like so much, I keep it in my wallet: ACRONYM: A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics Frank (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | General Box #4 - I gave it to someone at the meeting
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David, did you end up with that box?? It should be sent on when you are done - let me know how much it costs you and I'll pay for it at the June meeting. Paul Sinasohn bearitone@my-deja.com (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Buildings, etc. for BAYLTC NMRA Layout
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In lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, Mike Poindexter writes: I snipped it all for brevity, I brought my tunnel on sunday and believe it is too small for the NMRA display at this time. I can work on expanding it if you think it is worthwhile. One of our other (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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I can't absolutely promise, but I think that a carousel would fit nicely in a 32x32 plot..... I'll do my best.... And I want to thank everyone involved in the train meeting for allowing the break that let me get to my concert on time... The audience (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Public Thank You
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I wish to make a big thanks to those in BayLUG who helped me out on this last 3033 sale at Toy's R Us. Thanks to Tom Stangl, Eric McCarthy, Paul Sinasohn and Fred Yorkel, I was able to get an additional 92 more of the tubs, which will eventually (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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Mik wrote; (...) Well, *technically*, the acronym would be the BALTC...but the Bay Area LINUX Users Group was around first, so we became BayLUG (pronounced: BAY-lug), and so the founding members of the new train club voted at the recent LEGO fest to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) Nope, not a stir at all. This is place where we discuss all kinds of stuff, sometimes ad nauseum, or even at great length :) There's a lot of people here, so potentially you can get a lot of responses. -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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sorry to make such a stir but i was just checking to what the BAYLTC acronym stood for -mik (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
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(...) I used to think Merriam Webster was "one smart woman". Now, I know that she employs others to do most of her thinking for her ;-) Wellllllll, okay. As long as it's a friendly nit pick :) I defer to superior wisdom and sit corrected. Of course (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
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(...) Don't forget Pokemon (PO_c_KE_t MON_ster) :) <ducks> seriously, though... lots of things that we encounter every day are acronyms, even if their original meaning has been forgotten by most people... two examples I can think of off the top of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
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(...) Just a friendly nit to pick... :) Acronyms don't actually have to be words which come from only single letters (such as scuba = _s_elf _c_ontained _u_nderwater _b_reating _a_pparatus), but can actually pull multiple letters from words. An (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: quick question
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(...) Yes. Sort of. Mostly. Read on. (...) generically (...) kinda (...) BayLTC or bayLTC is to be thought of as Bay Area Lego Train Club, but that's technically not a true acronym. But BayLUG itself is not 100% acronym either, but it wasn't quite (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Buildings, etc. for BAYLTC NMRA Layout
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(...) How about a California/Bay Area/Tech stuff? I was looking out of the window today and thought the tech museum looks cool... but then I have no clue whether or not how easy it would be to make an imax dome... and the town would definitely need (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) Using LUG and LTC is the going standard. Bay stands for "Bay Area." We really couldn't have used BALUG anyway. It is used for the Bay Area Linux Users Group, balug.org. Besides, I have heard many people recognize us as being from the Bay Area (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) location (...) Well, one thing I like is the immediate tie-in with LUGs and LTCs. I think that the LTC is pretty much standardized, as is LUG, so having the same root would make sense. BALUG would be the Lego Users' Group, anyway. Bay Area (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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This did not dawn on me until after the train meeting on sunday..... We decided that the name for the train club would be BAYLTC, right? Does the BAY part stand for anything in particular or just or just generically "bay". For some reason i thought (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: June BAYLUG Meeting
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(...) Go. -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Buildings, etc. for BAYLTC NMRA Layout
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(...) Cool. Because I will :) I gotta little something in mind. Speaking of a little something, any plans for a working drawbridge? ;-) <grins, ducks and runs (aka the "John Neal Manuever"> (...) I would like to see a committee set up or perhaps a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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I am currently working on the town plan right now. Russell Clark and I discussed it at some length after the meeting at Zonker's and we had some rough ideas. I have gone over them and done the math to find plot sizes, but I have to recalculate (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | RE: June BAYLUG Meeting
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So moved, and Locked in! Mark (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: June BAYLUG Meeting
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(...) Hey Mark, sounds good to me...if I'm still around here I'll try to make it. Aaron (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) I saw go for it. Grab it now before its too late. Russell (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | June BAYLUG Meeting
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Hi All, Well I called and have Fukaya booked again Saturday June 10th all day, from 10 to 5. LMK if this is a GO or not before I send the application back. Yours, Mark (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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Hi all, We loved the multi-story downtown buildings from Sunday, and may try to build one. I think they would look very cool on the NRMA layout. In that spirit, we would like to offer any/all of our collection of town buildings/vehicles for the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: What a blast!
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(...) What I assumed, apparently mistakenly, was that someone had posted an announcement message the day before or the morning of the event. In any case, I never saw the posted announcement. "Last minute" is just me sort of suggesting that someone (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | RE: What a blast!
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-----Original Message----- From: Janet Graff [mailto:janet.graff@...asoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:10 AM To: ba-lego@cinnamon.com Subject: RE: What a blast! David, Well yeah always! There is always something someone wants that I don't (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | BayLUG meeting announcement reminder list?
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Richard Marchetti was the most recent person to write something like; (...) Richard, I'm sorry you missed it. I'm sure there are a few other that missed it as well. But I'm working on a solution! (I have a minimum of 2 folks who write something (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | RE: What a blast!
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David, Well yeah always! There is always something someone wants that I don't need in exchange for something I desperately need! But I wanted to talk to about the trade. We swapped 2 Blacktron corner pieces for 8 1X4 trans yellow bricks and 2 1X2 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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Last minute? This meeting was on the website at LEAST a week ahead of time. It was a combo regular and BayLTC meeting. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: What a blast!
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I'm into it. Somehow I keep missing the last minute announcements on these events and thereby keep missing the events themselves. This last event was a train thing, right? =) Anyway, if I do manage to attend the next time it will give me the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: What a blast!
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Hey Janet, That was me! Do you want to see my Want List? David Simmons Who was it that I traded the 1X4 trans yellow pieces with. I need to talk to you! Janet (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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Here's an idea for a South Bay meet - I am moving to the Santa Clara campus late April (Agnews area), and the auditorium should be done in May, I think. It can seat 400, and the public can book it, I THINK it is free. It is right off of San Tomas (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) Janet, that would be David Simmons, IIRC. I remember the 'haggling' :-) -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | RE: What a blast!
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I too had a great time at the meeting even with the limited time I could spend there. The look at the Airport Shuttle in box was truly amazing. Who was it that I traded the 1X4 trans yellow pieces with. I need to talk to you! Janet (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | RE: Anyone got the Argus article about Lego in SV?
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Tom, I have a copy of the paper that I was saving for you. I forgot to bring it on Saturday but I'll save it for the next meeting or mail it to you. Whatever you prefer! Janet -----Original Message----- From: lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf@lugnet.com (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | RE: Soooo, what's the plan for Sunday?
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Zonker, Did you get the 1X4 yellow with side slots? I have a "passle" of them...for a good trade. Janet -----Original Message----- From: Zonker Harris [mailto:zonkerh@corp.webtv.net] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 8:50 PM To: ba-lego@cinnamon.com (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Anyone got the Argus article about Lego in SV?
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Supposedly the Argus ran a COLOR photo of me in my cube with the article about Lego in the Silicon Valley. Has anyone got a copy of it? I want it! -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: What a blast!
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(...) My son and I were some of the new faces, we both enjoyed meeting everyone. And there was alot of great stuff to see. I've got to remember my cash for next time so I can participate in the Pawing. I look forward to the next meeting and LMK if (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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