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(...) The 12th is fine with me...or any other day next week (except Sunday the 13th, since I need to move my stuff back into my dorm) What does everyone else think? --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu www.bldesign.org (22 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | RE: How about another BLOC Meeting?
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(...) I was thinking it was about time to get together again too. And since that's near the end of winter break, I'll probably have a bunch of new stuff too! --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu www.bldesign.org (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | How about another BLOC Meeting?
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Hey gang, it's been a couple of months since we last met, and I've been extremely prodigious since then. I'd be willing to host a small gathering if anyone is interested. It'll have to be next year, in early January. How about January 12th? Adrian (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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(...) No problem, it wasn't that hard to arrange, thought the library staff are overly careful and remind people of policy topics 50 zillion times. But I can't blame them, really. We just need settle on a date for the next one... with the upcoming (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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I'd like to thank Joel for organizing the this meeting. I had a fun time. Jason did also and is eager for the next meeting. Joel, I'm sorry I ran your wife off with the asthma-provoking wood. I hope she is better and that the attack was not too bad. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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(...) I understand... my parents thought the fact I met my girlfriend (now wife) online was a recipe for disaster. :) We just celebrated 5 years. Anyway.. bring 'em along! :) we'll make LEGO fans of them, too. :) And bring some Blacktron if you like (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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(...) Thanks, but I think I'm good. Transporting myself to the meetings isn't an issue, it's convincing my parents to let me go. They think everybody they've never met is out to get me, and they also think it's really weird for adults to be playing (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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(...) Greg, I am sure that if you ask, you will find people here willing to drive you to Lego meetings. If your parents need to pre-approve us or anything we could also work with that. Carolyn Cheney (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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(...) Great! I'm looking forward to meeting you. :) If ever you can make it to a meeting but need a ride -- I live just south of 70 off Rome Hilliard so it wouldn't be a problem to swing by and pick you up before heading to a gathering. Consider it (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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(...) Excellent! I'd love to see the HP sets --- Lynda and I priced them out last night at TRU on West Broad but didn't get any as it's not in the budget presently..and it's getting close to Christmas time. (hint hint, honey! <G>) Michael Huffman (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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(...) Sounds great! I usually can't attend AFOL gatherings because I can't really travel too far (I'm only 17), but the library is about 1 mile from my house. I will most likely be there. Thanks for setting everything up. Now I'll have to book it (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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Geoff and I will be there. I haven't gotten ahold of Jason, but I still hope to bring him. I will bring my unpainted tables, and Geoff might bring the 2 Harry Potter sets he got for his birthday last week. I won't be bringing any Lego creations, but (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Columbus Gathering Sunday 10-28-01 Hilliard Library
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Well, I've gone ahead and filled out the offical paperwork for the meeting room at the Hilliard Library. Directions are at the bottom: We're booked for Sunday 10-28 -- that's 1 week away, now. The meeting time will be ~1pm (subject to when they (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Cleveland BLOC gathering - New MOCs!
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(...) Space???...??? Ok only if it's Classic Space:-) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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(...) None of us are trainheads. We just play along when people like Larry come to visit. We're pretty much space heads here in Cleveland, so I guess the answer would be "whenever a trainhead joins BLOC so that he can organize it" :) Adrian (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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(...) Ok guys you have now built trains.....the next question is when's the first train(GATS etc.) show?:-) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: BrikWars Wild west train battle
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(...) My first BrikWars. Good clean fun (well, ok, messy) I uploaded my pics and they can be seen here: (URL) guys! Let's do it again some time. ++Lar (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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(...) This was the most fun I've had at a minifest in quite a while. Thanks guys!!!! Here are the pics I took, finally... (URL) the pics from the BrikWars battle held on Thursday are on brickshelf as well, see details here. (URL) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | BrikWars Wild west train battle
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Hey gang, On Thursday, October 4th, a few of us BLOC people and Larry P got together to play a little BrikWars campaign. Since Larry's the trainhead that he is, we decided to do one based on trains. Larry spent a little time to build a 1920's era (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.western, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Cleveland BLOC gathering - New MOCs!
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We don't think small, do we? When confronted with the relative inexperience in building train cars, what do Bram and I do? Build ridiculously huge 8 wide monstrosities! What fun. I'm surprisingly happy with the way the creator ship came about, (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Cleveland BLOC gathering - New MOCs!
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This evening, some of the Cleveland area BLOC members met at Troy's house with "special" guest Larry P. In attendance were Adrian Drake, Troy and Ken Cefaratti, Gino Melone (for a little while), and myself. Inspired by the Harry Potter train and (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: Display at Marcon?
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I am not averse to doing something for Marcon, but neither do I have a burning desire to put on a display. As a parent I think the idea of having somthing hands-on for the kids is great. Too bad my extensive set of Duplo, including a fair amount of (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Display at Marcon?
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Okay, here's the scoop on Marcon. I spoke with the head programming/space allocation honcho (at our meeting this past weekend) about the possibility of getting a room to do a display at Marcon, and the answer is a definite "maybe". The key issue is (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col)
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| | Re: Sunday gathering at Michael's place.
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(...) I still think that Marcon[1] would be an appropriate event to try this for, like the display MichLUG did at Contraption. We (the Marcon concom) are having our first meeting for planning the '02 con in a few weeks; I'll float the idea past our (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Sunday gathering at Michael's place.
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I really enjoyed the gathering we had yesterday at Michael's place. He and Erika were gracious hosts and deserve a big thank you for things going as well as they did. Here's mine - Thanks!!!:) And without further adieu, here are the pictures I took: (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Here we go again
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(...) I'd like to do TL2. Memorial Day weekend is looking good. Saturday for fighting is probably best. That leaves Sunday for overflow/cleanup. The boss, er... my wife, tells me that we're busy most of Monday. Other interested parties? Central (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | RE: Here we go again
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(...) Busy this weekend, free all the rest AFAIK (except Mother's Day, which is also my brother's B-Day. I need to finish my Brickfest T-Shirt designs and spaceplane, though.... --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Re: Here we go again
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(...) May is a bad month :) Tomorrow I'm at TRU again (come visit me 12-2pm at the North Olmstead TRU!) After then I could do something, but I wouldn't have that much time. 5/6 I'm busy 5/11-5/13 I'm busy 5/19 I'm busy (off to Cedar Point) and (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Here we go again
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<whine>I wanna BrikWar!</whine> So, Let's do some fighting. We seem to have some momentum for a TL2 battle. Unfortunately, I don't have the space to host more than a 2-3 person, 100CP battle. So, if someone wants to volunteer to play host, I'm (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle, lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | Going back to TRU
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Hey gang, I have another appointment at TRU coming up in a couple of weeks. I probably won't be building anything, just putting my stuff on display. I'll be there on May 5th, from noon to 2pm. This is part of a program that the local TRU is enacting (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| | BrickWars at BrickFest
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Is there interest in BrickWars at BrickFest. I know that it was mentioned a few weeks ago (URL) anyone want to speak up in support of a BrickWars Event, possibly all day Friday? Christina www.brickfest.com (23 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.va.ric, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.md)
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| | New Mosaic from TRU visit: Pikachu
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Well, my trip to TRU (as I announced earlier this week on the BLOC newsgroup) was pretty successful. I spent 3.5 hours at my local Toys'R'Us, working on a new mosaic while I was there. The results of that are shown on this page: (URL) looks like the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle) !
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| | Re: Now appearing at a Toys'R'Us near you...Me!
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Well, I finally got ahold of Donna at TRU, and I will be appearing in the store from roughly 1-5pm, depending on how tired I get :) You're welcome to come by and cheer me on or just say hello. Most of my sculptures will be on display (including (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: Now appearing at a Toys'R'Us near you...Me!
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(...) I just realized I can't make it. Sorry! Ergh... just one of these days I *will* make it... -- dataAndrew (URL) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: Now appearing at a Toys'R'Us near you...Me!
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(...) Donna hasn't called me back yet. I suspect she's tried, but because my DSL was turned off last week (stupid AT&T buying Northpoint then turning off everybody's DSL) I have had to resort to my woeful and pathetic modem to get internet access, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | RE: Now appearing at a Toys'R'Us near you...Me!
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(...) So what are the details on this? Which TRU is it? Is TRU providing bricks for you? Who's coming out to distract you? --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: Now appearing at a Toys'R'Us near you...Me!
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(...) Well, it's April 2nd, and I'm still serious :) I'm not sure how much space we're going to be given, and I'm trying to figure out if I should try to move my Marvin sculpture or not (I'm sure the kids would LOVE it) I hope to get some more (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: Now appearing at a Toys'R'Us near you...Me!
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(...) This isn't an April Fools Joke. All I need is for Donna in the Toy department to call me, and we'll set up the details. It seems to fit, since TRU is running their "Lego Month" from March 18-April 14th. Yes, this is the TRU in North Olmstead (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: Now appearing at a Toys'R'Us near you...Me!
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(...) This better not be an April Fools joke. ;) Anyways, is this TRU by a mall? I'm not familiar with the Cleveland area that much. -- dataAndrew (slightly paranoid today) (URL) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | RE: Now appearing at a Toys'R'Us near you...Me!
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(...) I'll need verification of the facts on April 2, but otherwise, I'm in! :) --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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