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(...) Well I think you probably knew what I meant in that I leave final documentation to someone else, i.e. the copy the customer sees, I have to document my code for internal purposes of course. (...) Well I am not sure but I think it was the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: My Space Theme Wish for 2001
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(...) That's really cool! I knew about the screenplay, but not the book's byline. (...) Is that a book or video or both? I'd love to see it. It's amazing, but even decades later it still remains a standard by which the realism of other scifi (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Social Engineering (was: Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?))
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(...) I meant that in the nicest way, of course. (...) I think you left a comma out of that sentence fragment, big fella. :-) All (1) kidding aside (I should have set followups to .fun on the last post but they're set there now), I think if you (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) He's sort of like "Rudolph, the Trans-neon-orange Scorpion." I think you should consider the marketing potential of this, seeing as how Christmas is coming up and all. At the very least, perhaps someone can make a short stop-motion feature. We (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Quite. In _The Making of 2001_ by Clarke, he relates how the book and the movie were written essentially at the same time by both of them, with Kubrick focusing more on script and Clarke more on prose. The book is by "Arthur C Clarke and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) sort (...) Er, sorry about that. ++Lar (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey! Stay on topic for the group! (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) At least one person has been confused by the set number above. I have verified that it is possible to construct a fairly simple search in Altavista to find the significance of that set number... Frank (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Isn't that *twice* daily incarceration? Later this week I will be back to riding the London Underground Jubilee line two or more times a day, which was deliberately made smaller than older(?) tube trains. Ostensibly so that the tubes would be (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Everything has been invented... (was Re: single motor pneumatic pump and switch)
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(...) such (...) In 1875 the Director of the United States Patent Office sent in his resignation, and advised the administration that his department be eliminated, because he was convinced there was nothing left to invent. --from (URL) is an (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Everything has been invented... (was Re: single motor pneumatic pump and switch)
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(...) Good call! (URL) Dave! (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Everything has been invented... (was Re: single motor pneumatic pump and switch)
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This is a myth. It was supposed to be the Commissioner of Patents, but no such letter, speech, or testimony to this effect is to be found. In fact, a hundred years or so ago is recognized as a time of great ferment of technological innovation, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes (...) Heh! I don't have much plane experience (just plane inexperienced, I guess), but my daily incarceration on the Light Rail Sardine Can seems analogous, and the perpetrators come in two general (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You don't even want to know......... but since you asked..... Yellow Castle (10), Main Street (10), London Bus (35). And every single one of them has been opened up and disbursed into my LEGO inventory (or into buildings) years ago. (Unopened (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) unprepared (...) Because it's not? I've already said elsewhere on LUGNET that I do this very thing. :-) Don't EVER be in front of me on an airplane blocking the aisle and not ready to go when the person in front of you moves, because I will (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Take this to email, but yes, this seems eminently doable. I fly out later today and will be in town all week, and next too. LegoLand Windsor Fireworks, anyone? (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, I was kidding about the office part, but if you're in town it would be a shame not to engineer a path-crossing. It'd have to be arranged by email, I fear, because my phone doesn't work in the UK--it's a prepay so it's restricted to .nl. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Wow, Todd really took my idea and ran... I thought I'd post the comment here since the only important release this year was set 3363 LEGO Maniac.... :-) :-) Frank (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.year.1963, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: "Is he seriously thinking it's going to work?"
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(...) You should take his (...) is (...) you (...) Of course, we're ignoring the fact that Lego Scorpions are at least a few feet long. (Comparing to Minifigs) So ten should easily pull a chariot-type vehicle. Of couse, the hover-chariot would be (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: ------( Terms of use for lugnet.com )------
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(...) I just wanted to cross post this to .off-topic.fun so we could have proof that Larry is not perfect. :-) Jude (25 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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