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Re: the evolution of lego sorting
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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:18:51 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, Remy Evard writes:
> Here's a description of an evolution of lego collection sorting. It might
> be yours, at least in parts. It's certainly been mine.
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> I might turn this into an essay some day, but for now it will have to begin
> life as a series of unsupported claims. If you have any comments or
> additions, toss'em in.
Great insight! One would have had to go through this to have been able to
write it so well. Thanks.
<Major Snippage>
> 24. You start looking for a new house. One with a large basement.
I got to this step about 6 years ago ;-) I now call my basement: "My Shop".
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> 25. Vision recognition becomes interesting to you.
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> 26. You begin to long for the day when you could sit at your desk and
> actually reach every piece you owned without getting up.
Step 26 is in the wrong order. It should have been somewhere around step 10
or 12.
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> 27. You decide to keep a special set or two at your desk, away from the
> huge sorting system, just to play with a few great sets without having
> to sort them. And then you add another cool set. Pretty soon
> you're digging through 3 inches of bricks trying to find that 1x1
> transparent red plate and you think about sorting your bricks...
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> Of course, somewhere along the way, you probably quit buying just sets, and
> started to do things like:
> - Buy lego sets in bulk, to the point where you have 10s to 100s
> of unopened boxes.
Been there, done that - oops, still doing that ;-)
> - Work on very large construction projects.
For many years. It gets harder and harder to think small :-)
> - Acquire other people's collections.
Working on this now :-)
> - Run large auctions over the net.
Just small ones so far, I want to keep my pieces!
> And those bring up entirely new sorting challenges.... but those won't
> be written about tonight, at least not by me.
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> -r'm
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> Remy Evard / evard@mcs.anl.gov
Just for info, I mostly use cardboard bin boxes that fold into shape (4, 6,
8 and 12 inches wide and 12 or 18 inches long), and have only recently moved
toward the Sterilite containers. I am definitely an Akron Mills supporter -
I have about 20 of their bin boxes (9, 18 and 23, 30 and 60 drawer types).
The advantage is being able to see those small pieces. Very important when
one cannot remember which of the separate containers may have the piece
wanted. My sorting has suffered (from lack of doing it) over the last year -
must be that cursed web ;-).
Wayne
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| "Wayne R Hussey" <eskimo2@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:G6v1rF.F8H@lugnet.com... (...) 10 (...) Totally agree here! Although I must admit my own story skips completely random around Remy's. I've never sorted by set or by color. A factor (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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