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(...) Good point. Barbara and I sort everything by color, which for the size of our collection, is starting to become inconvenient. Our black pieces fill a storage drawer which measures 11 x 6 x 16 inches (about 4.5 gallons or 17.4 litres) -- making (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) which I JUST don't understand. I have some color sorted stuff now and it is SO hard to find things (...) Well, just in case, I bet Damraska will want it all. (just trying to help) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, a year ago our entire collection would fit within six 8.5 x 11 x 2 inch drawers. They were so shallow, finding a specific piece was cake. (...) Well, I suppose I would entertain offers. For roughly 18,000 pieces, I'll accept $250,000 or (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah I agree. The human mind is really good at sorting by color: if you're trying to find one 2x2 red piece mixed in with 1000 white ones, piece of cake. But try to find one 2x3 mixed in with 1000 2x2s and 2x4s of the same color... (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You _must_ be insane. How do you find anything? That sorting logic would be fine for socks and underwear, but for Lego? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Insanity comes with the job. You *can't* walk out of TRU with an armload of Legos without leaving a few brain cells behind! Curiously enough, the same thing occurs at school. Leave with $459 worth of books, leave a few brain cells behind.\ The (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Sproaticus wrote in message <3672DEAC.6FF236B9@g...es.com>... (...) You get that. At least you married someone the same size as you :) Moz (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sounds like what you're leaving behind is a wad of cash. (...) <G> "Sproat, always good for a big grin" (...) Cross-dressing's a no-no in your family unit? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) So, Terry, what you're telling me is, that going to college is nothing but a big scam perpetuated by the haves to futher deplete the have-nots in a continuous plot to widen the power gap between the suits and the engineers? Are you implying (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's a fun little virus, fairly harmless (1). Good start. However, this one footnote is a dangler... no antecedent. 1 - unlike say, the "debating religion in newsgroups" virus, which I seem to have intially vectored into LUGNET inadvertantly (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Er, um, this should be "I'm the DANGLING footnote virus!". So stamp it out. :-) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Muhahahaa...nice. Selçuk (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Hi all, I recently wrote a message in which I used the term "high-school drop-out" in a derogatory fashion. I realize that this may (rightfully so) give someone cause to consider my mental and social stability. This (1) has bothered me ever since, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not to mention Albert Einstein. (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Einstein was pretty cool, but he's no Billy Joule. Joel. Arg. Whatever. :-, Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmmm... I guess it is about time to go through a Great Re-Org. So soon after a Great Purge of our assembled sets, too. I was thinking a scheme that almost parallels the LDraw naming scheme: e.g. bricks, bricks with studs not on top and (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey, this is off-topic in this newsgroup. :) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Something like this, but I haven't got that many pieces :) Technic beams, terchnic plates, Technic connecting pieces/axles/etc. regular bricks, regular plates, regular tiles Other are just about the main categories. The I sort for example into (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yeah, well what a hoser you are then. Take off, eh? (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <AHEM> You ain't so tough, eh? Yeah like, Bob my brother an' me, we was talkin', eh, about like, how tough we was when we got lost in the woods, you know? Like, this ranger guy, he found us, he was Ned, what a knob, eh? Dressed up in that red (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Remember that time we went to the Provincial Park? So I guess there's nothing more needs to be said, eh? (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Are you sure you don't mean Wisconson State Park?? You can't tell a WI and an ON accent apart none too good, eh? Doncha think? You betcha. (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Isn't the UP actually part of Canada? Yah sure. Steve (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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So does this belong in lugnet.admin.database, or lugnet.storage? Steve (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Four pounds of backbacon, three french toasts, two turtlenecks... and a beer, in a tree."(1) (...) From Tom McDonald Anti-spam block in place. (URL) You haven't lived until the vacuum cleaner has pulled the tape out of a cassette for you. Do what (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, from experience I have come to trust their basic Office set (Word, Excel, Access) and Win NT. That's most likely because MS didn't write the things, but just bought the companies that wrote them. Though I have to agree, it *is* a (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Huh? I thought MS wrote all the above. Who did MS buy them from? (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oops - NT was written by IBM, which MS obvisouly didn't buy. It was originally called something like "Windows OS/2" or something, then after the split, most of the really good parts went into OS/2. I don't remember exactly who wrote Word, (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Are ya sure they bought it? Or did they just steal it, like Windows itself? Mark "WinErr:007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware" (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's splitting hairs when it comes to MS... I'll give them credit for one thing: they're very good about their choice of companies when it comes to product plundering. Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <devil's advocate> They didn't steal windows. They stole the "look 'n' Feel" of windows. (sound familiar? :) ) Anyway, The company they stole it from also stole it from someone else, so why they even _bothered_to sue is beyong me.... (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Also sprach Jasper Janssen: : <devil's advocate> They didn't steal windows. They stole the "look 'n' : Feel" of windows. (sound familiar? :) ) Anyway, The company they stole : it from also stole it from someone else, so why they even _bothered_to : (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Shouldn't that be "the Windows buyer gets the bugs"? I just worked with MacOS and I was impressed! After a whole days work, I didn't get a single ErrorMessage, BSoD or Dr. Watson!!! This is proof: it CAN be done right! (Please mr. Gates. Steel (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh I don't know... "640k ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1983 or thereabouts.... Of course, that was later, so your statement still stands :) (...) Possibly. Tho personally, I find the apple UI somewhat worse than the current (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Linux isn't stable because it's an open source project. It's not portable, it's not scalable, no one uses it for anything serious, and it'll soon be in violation of the standards as soon as Microsoft invents them. Microsoft invented the (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I just thought I'd mention that VB is my personal bogeyman of the moment. I very much prefer a scripting language that has meat to it, such as Perl. Having said that, I just read something that chilled my blood. Evidently, PC Magazine named (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, it isn't stable because it's an open source project. It's stable because it's stable. (...) Not portable huh? Did I see Red Hat on Intel, Alpha, PowerPC, and some others? not serious? How many ISPs do I know that use Linux as their *nix (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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