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Re: Simple sorting
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Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:15:09 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D. writes:
Ooohh no there are too many to fit!!
--
Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. the fully anal and out of space AGAIN newbie simple
sorter for non Technic

Ahhh... then it has begun :-)   Somewhat like a computer program Lego seems
to grow to fill all available space forcing you to get more storage.
Sorting this Lego can be a joy or a chore or simply not done at all.
Personally I enjoy sorting Lego.  I often take a bunch of it to work and
sort it there as my machine boots up or my VAJava compiles.  I find it
relaxing and fairly mindless.  To give you and idea of where you MAY be
headed... here are a couple of pictures of what my Lego has done to my
basement.  (Note that there are mostly non-technic bricks)

Smaller quantities are associated and placed in bins.
http://home.primus.ca/~shiner/images/lego6.jpg

Larger quantities like basic-bricks, plates, slopes and such get a tub.
http://home.primus.ca/~shiner/images/lego_5.jpg

Finally... unsorted deboxed Lego are put in the "waiting-to-sort" pile.
http://home.primus.ca/~shiner/images/lego4.jpg

BTW... any guess where I got the red buckets from :-)
Enjoy,
- Jeff

p.s.  my apologies for the fuzzy pictures but my digital camera is cheap



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(...) My one real new years resolution is to sort the hundreds of sets I've acquired over the last year. I haven't found time to sort anything this past year. it is true; my collection has grown to fill the volume of available space, the whole (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)

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Ooohh no there are too many to fit!! -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. the fully anal and out of space AGAIN newbie simple sorter for non Technic "Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:NEBBIJADEJHLFJD...mts.com... (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)

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