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(...) quoting: "I'd just like to thank Sluggite Clang for making the Lego Sluggy Characters for me, inspiring me to create this week. It was cool convincing my wife spending a hundred bucks on Legos to build the sets was a business expense! I hope (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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(...) Woohoo! And it continues! It appears to be a vacation week, so we might see a whole week of Sluggy Lego! :) James (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <snip my new summer project ;) > Trebuchet is also my favorite MS font. I just got done designing a flyer for a conference using this for the logo. Now I know where the name comes from. thanks! -chris (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi, I just inherited a website to maintain and I'm trying to figure out how it is set up. Are there any free programs that can produce a site map or tree diagram based a directory full of files? thanks in advance -chris (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) A gravity-powered catapult is called a trebuchet. This site is a good place to start: (URL) are lots of links to other sites with plans, etc. I made a small one last summer, with a beam ~50cm long. It can fling a ~10g rock over 50m. Much fun! (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Sluggy Freelance (URL) is in Lego today! (At least partly.) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek) !!
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I've figured out a better way - if the data entry guy stays *in* a truck all day, he has less to worry about.... ties up that truck though. I'm still going to build a catapult though. Going to test it on household materials first... I imagine I can (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Concrete 2.4-ish and so are most non-ore rocks sandstone etc (Gieck 7th ed) (...) That was an offhand worst deformation with minimum attachments guess. You may need only 5 as 80% of the V will be lost by then anyway. (...) You got it, that (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, David Goeb writes: OK, thanks, I will think about keeping slack in the tent when I start throwing rocks, that is easier to put in than tin plate. I'm sorry, I put a rubber eraser "rock" on a postal scale, rounded up the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Did you want full FEA on that or will rough back of the hand range do? Oh and more to the point What are those rocks made of to get that mass? Lead works out as less than 20/cm3... Actually the distance between tie points and overall stress (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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