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*raises hand and waves it around madly* Me! Me! I'm VE3AIQ. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Are you suppose to be the one living in pain with the 18 inch size limit? ;) To make me live in fear you better show some cards. I am in the middle of deciding between a reliable design and a risky design that can stack 4 more blocks. (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) hmm. Live in fear? I'm not even building a complete robot. My teammate is building half, and the pieces won't be assembled for the first time until Saturday morning. But I'm still not bothered... Steve (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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<Begin transmission> Good evening, For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Richard… …and I suffer from (CAS) Chronic-Anticipation-Syndrome. Y’see, I'm afflicted with a disorder that causes me to incessantly dwell upon mystery’s and (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) Just a quick note... The arena's done--I was going to take pics of the assembly, but my digital camera was at a thomas the Train Festival in Winona. Oh well... So that'll be sitting in the back of my pickup on Sat Morning... Whether or not (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:H4qCnx.2vA@lugnet.com... (...) I'm (...) useful (...) SCREAM!! DEATH DEATH DEATH omg that was death (...) is (...) sides, (...) wheels. NM!O!!!...!!! CANT BREATHE (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Anyone I know? (you don't know their call sign do you?) I've been asking around on various repeaters if anyone is into robotics and I haven't found a fellow ham yet with that interest. Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hi folks, Just a quick note that rtlToronto12 is confirmed with the library for November 9th. 2002: (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Or you can do what I do. Open a TD/Canada Trust account Then open a TD/Waterhouse USA TRUE USD IN USA account Connect PayPAl to Waterhouse account Withdraw with NO FEES, get a super exchange rate moving money between Waterhouse and CAnada Trust (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 From: "Angelo Castellano" snip (...) snip (...) As an update, I just did a transfer from my paypal account ( USD ) to my local bank. Did the transfer Sunday night, and the funds were there this morning. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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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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