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well, I've removed the brains from the large orange squash..... (ugh) -I Drew a simple pattern on the flattest face -I CUT into the orange beast. I have created a monster. then I removed the seeds boiled 2 cups of seeds in 6 cups of water and a (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) That's a good question. I'm still working out the plans. Our current plan is to drop off boy #1 with grandma & grandpa on Friday afternoon. Then, continue up to Toronto Friday evening. If anyone has suggestions about a good place to stay... or (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hey, don't worry about it. It would have been a bit of a bust anyways, apart from watching Rob, because of the low attendance. (I kind of feel bad asking Derek out there) The little robots drew good interest, especially from the youngsters (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Stupid project time! While at ECRG Rob mentioned it would be useful to have two tiles that said M and S for Master and Slave so one wouldn't get confused. I first grabbed a pair of black tiles with a really ugly Star Wars orange and white pattern on (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Fixed it. Also upgraded the number of blocks (I hope we have that man blocks) to 40 blocks total. Everyone bring their blocks in case. Calum (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) If it has not already been correct it will be soon... Calum and I have decided that a 3 min match is about as long as we want to watch small tracked robots move around a small floor. Can I assume then that you will be joining us in our fair (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I have a small rules question. I'm sure this is not important, but the rules page: (URL) a small conflict on it. How long do the matches last? Under "What's the Contest?", it says five minutes, but under "Gameplay" is says three minutes. I don't (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) ummm, this last line just BEGS for me to make a smart a$$ remark. Chris (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes: <snip> (...) I wanted to be there. I didn't get to the Big Smoke until 7 p.m. on Saturday, and Sunday I was in Belleville at a baptism and didn't get back to T.O. until 8 p.m.. Thus the weekend... So (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hey folks, First off, I want to thank everyone for helping or offering to help: attending ECRG (Derek), supplying demo robots (Derek and Dave), just offering support (Dan O'Connell) etc. ECRG, the Eastern Canadian Robot Games was a well attended (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Listen, sonny, back in the day, machines had node names, because they were expensive boxen like Suns, not some generic made down the street boxes attached to some wussy residential network that doled out temporary DHCP addresses. No, machines (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Congratulations! Sounds interesting... Jus' how much is the employee discount!!! :-p -R (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Its really simple: Always make sure that there is at least a 10ms delay before the slave tries to respond to the master. I stuck in delays of 20ms before every reply, and it worked like a charm! I also made sure I wasn't sending messages from (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno writes: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) If you ever want something done right, you have to do it yourself. So now we have a nice domain name. (it's not as free as sparky.i989.net, but you can't win 'em all ;) ) (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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OK, I asked Calum to post this but..... Before last night, If you ever wanted to tell people about our little group, and felt they might want to see the official RTLToronto web page you had to remember this ungainly address. (URL) "www" peach.mie. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I was browsing the now pretty meager stock of Lego at one Niagara-based Zellers. Last time I was there, around 2 weeks ago, just before the start of the BOGO 50% off sale, they had a whole pallet of those Star Wars 2 packs for $10.00 each. Now there (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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just letting you guys know I recently got hired on at TRU as a part-time stocker. Looks like fun, and I hope things go well for the christmas season. Anyways, that's all for know... Ben (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Well, it has been a stressful yet wonderful past 2 days. Kate had decided that she wanted to spend some quality "Chris Time" and lets face it who wouldn't?? We choose to go to Capitol City. and the only thing lego related that i can think of is (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Although I have received much support from rtl Toronto, everything is being reduced to clear. Please contact me offlist at statsone@sympatico.ca 3804 Mindstorms 229.00 4107 creator tub 19.00 3800 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) 4107 makes it even more necessary to have a 3033. I bought only one 4107. It fills some needs, but I feel bad for the parents who wonder where to get the kind of bricks in 3033. The best advice I could give at Target last night was stated (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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