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| | | (...) Doesn't this mean that one would have to actually tell one's family how much one spends on LEGO? I can see that some may think that their family is better off not knowing this. :-) Fredrik (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) How funny. Larry is absolutely right, and so is Fredrik! Hell hath no fury like an NLSO finding out how much you spent on stupid plastic blocks! What a conundrum:-) I would err on the side of *not* telling the spouse how much it's worth, if (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | Or at least put a special section in your will, which it will not be sold until x envelope, containing prices, is sold! :) Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) I'll buy that envelope for a dollar. Then shred it and get the collection for a song. I think c /is sold/is opened/ ... :-) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Well, ya, that is true. Perhaps put it in a sealed set of instructions? (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Chris Moseley
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| | | | Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) Keep in mind that you are the named beneficiary of at least one will when saying this, Mr Glockner. My family are currently minding my collection, but I don't think they realised its real (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | (...) I am? Wow, I had no idea of that. (...) Here in Norway, most people realize that LEGO is a high quality, expensive construction toy. It is my impression, although I haven't actually got any statistics for it, that only very few would ever give (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Chris Moseley
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| | | | Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) Better you than some lucky kid out looking for a bargain. My parents have already demonstrated their incompetance by selling the Lego I had as a child for virtually nothing (about $US3/lb) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | (...) Thanks! I sampled up the original 384x288 renderings to 768x576 by using some bicubic technique, and used these to make an MPEG animation. The resulting animation hasn't really got anymore details than the 384x288 one, but it still looks quite (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Chris Moseley
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| | | | | Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) That was the one I grabbed :) This low-res stuff, pah! (...) Cool. Moz (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Chris Moseley
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| | | | Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) I don't know where it comes from but there's jiggling from some other parts of the image, and combined with jiggly music (Emily Richards, "Lie to Me" from the album "You Give" (URL) a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | (...) Yeah, I noticed. It's probably an artifact of the MPEG encoding. I can see if I can encode it at slightly less compression, to see if it goes away then. If I still have the original rendered files, that is. *ponder* Now, the next challenge (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Truck factors (was Re: Instructions on CD ROM? —Chris Moseley
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| | | | Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote (...) Mostly on bike paths. Well, shared use death traps, whatever you want to call them. The paths are nice, it's just that sometimes we get a 2m wide path shared between cyclists travelling (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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