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Last night at IHOP, after copious amounts of beer at Rocklands, a few of us were talking about how we cut our food up into differently-sized portions during the eating process, and I realized that an algorithm exists for maximizing the total (...) (20 years ago, 16-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Brad Ventura goes to Brickfest
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(...) Oops, my bad. I sent it to the email address listed by the "From" in your post. I guess that means that your t[IAddedThisAgainToA...tule.qc.ca address isn't working though. (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Try to think of the glass as half full. (was: Re: Indiana Jones extends his vacation)
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(...) Bruce & Lindsay, Thanks much for this great laugh on a dreary afternoon. :-D -Andrew (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Pac-Man Wedding Cake Topper
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(...) Oooo! Check out the "marriage" versions of the figures-- looks like they once came in 'tux' and 'gown' form: (URL) luck finding them, but hey, that'd be pretty cool! DaveE (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Pac-Man Wedding Cake Topper
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(...) I received a "not amused" glare when I suggested that very idea, but I appreciate the support! (...) than trying a futile search for a non-existent topper. Thanks! Dave! (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Pac-Man Wedding Cake Topper
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(...) Wouldn't the easiest thing be to just take out a slice of cake? :) Failing that, it looks like there's a couple figures on Ebay: (URL) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Pac-Man Wedding Cake Topper
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I have a friend who'd like to have a Pac-Man cake topper on her wedding cake, ideally in the form of a sculpture of Mr. and Ms. Pac-Man, perhaps with a love-you heart of some kind. Any suggestions? These aren't LEGO-savvy people, so a LEGO-based (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) Embarassing? No. Regrettable, perhaps. But please do bear with us. This one thread is messier than one might like, yes, but hopefully overall future admin activity will be the better for it. As for ObNASA's I did consider including some but (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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Don't you think it is a little embarassing that the thread is now 75% administration Lar? I pushed "nested inline" in the expectation of lots of juicy NASA stuff. You didn't even include an "ob NASA" anywhere. :( You must go back N levels to (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Legged Robots
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(...) Leonard, I found the article on robotic leg motion very interesting. I hope to find time to play with springy legs in the near future. Kevin (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) Shuttle = great idea in 1972, ridiculous albatross in 2004. You're undoubtedly right about the $4.3B being spent before a single SRB is lit. What really bugs me is the systematic way they're trying to kill all manned spaceflight by unfunding (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) It's not over yet. Look at House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's comments in these articles: (2 URLs) He's quoted as calling the proposed NASA budget cuts as "unacceptable" and followed that by saying, "It would be very hard to get this bill to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Legged Robots
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(...) Not to disparage the results of his studies, but that has got to be the funniest thing I've heard in months. On the surface, I can see that it's a valid source of robotics research, but if I think about it too hard I keep coming up with images (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) All those new initiatives were a neat idea, but as you can see Shuttle has eaten them alive. Congress voted $4.3 billion for a shuttle that won't fly before that money is all gone. It has always done this because our lawmakers are addicted to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Bad news for NASA
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(...) That sucks. That was a great way to potentially generate billions of dollars in NASA R&D without having to spend tax dollars to pay for it all. It also allows a greater variety of ideas to be explored, since noone has to justify experimenting (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Not the right way to exit?
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(...) There's an argument to be made for both sides. Watching the space battle scenes in Ep 1.1, some scenes show shots being fired in silence, but in the space battle scenes of Ep 1.13, they seem to take a few liberties for cinematic effect. When (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Not the right way to exit?
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(...) Heh. Even hard-core fans are amazed at the comparatively low technical quality and such of the premiere movie after having watched the full series, but to be fair, I believe it had an even lower budget than the individual episodes, and that (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Legged Robots
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(...) As a cyclist, I've known this for years, and I didn't even have to play around with rocket powered roaches. (...) I look forward to seeing the first springy legged Lego robot. Cheers, Allister (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Legged Robots
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(...) From the subject of this post, I had thought that you had built more bots. This was very dissappointing, Lenny. (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Legged Robots
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(URL) I was reading the July issue of Discover (quickly becoming one of my favorite magazines) at the library and found an article about development of robotic leg locomotion. what follows is my narrative/impression of the article since I can't link (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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