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Re: We're Famous!
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 8 Feb 2002 05:35:28 GMT
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Quinton Delpeche <quintond@knowledgefactory.co.^stopspam^za>
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quintond@knowledgefactory.^spamless^co.za
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Hi,
You all are making me jealous.
Here in South Africa we don't have BrickFests or anything like that...
...*sulk*... ...I wonder if I can get a job overseas... ...hehehehehehe
Q
On Friday 08 February 2002 01:28, Matthew Gerber wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rob Stehlik writes:
> > Hi everyone,
> > A while ago I got an email from Mario Ferrari saying that he had mentioned
> > my site in his new book, Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms. As if this
> > wasn't enough, he also said the publisher would like to send me a free
> > copy. Boy was I happy! Well, after some difficulties with the shipping, I
> > finally recieved my very own autographed copy for free. The book is
> > massive, and it is absolutely full of great ideas and technical
> > information. It took me a while to just skim through all of the chapters.
> > I was really surprised when I saw a paragraph about rtlToronto at the end
> > of one of the chapters. In discussing Lego robotics competition, Mario
> > and Giulio mention us as 'a very active Lego robotics group in the
> > Toronto area' And he describes our latest event, the monkey bars! Its
> > amazing to read about an event in a book that you went to only a few
> > months ago... So there you are. We are famous!
>
> Just to interject something cool here, you all will be even more famous
> after BricksWest!
>
> By special arrangement with the publisher, I'll have copies of "Building
> Robots with LEGO Mindstorms" for sale at BricksWest (at 45% off the
> standard price of $29.95; that's just $16.50 each).
>
> Syngress (the publisher) has also donated 5 copies of the book to be given
> away as prizes during the event. Way cool!
>
> So that's a whole bunch more folks who will get to see your names in print!
>
> Matt
>
> (Who's done hijacking this thread for his shameless event
> promotion...though I do think you all will be just that much more famous!
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled LUGNETting!)
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