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Re: Sorting
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lugnet.storage
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Thu, 22 Oct 1998 06:32:01 GMT
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Louise Belles writes:
> Lighten-up, slow-down, throw all the basic bricks of one color in one bin, all
> the special by theme in another.
Ah, the canonical sorting debate has arisen. There is a camp (myself among the
adherents) that feels that sorting by color is a total waste of time (except
for green :-)). Far more important to sort by size and type.
When rooting for a part, which is easier, finding the blue 1x3 bricks in a bin
of 1x3s, or finding the 1x3s in a bin of blue 1x2s, 1x3s and 1x4s? The former.
Trust me. Blue jumps out at you far easier than three studs of length.
Being anal about sorting is a good thing. It lets you have more time to build.
When I'm on a building run, I want everything at hand because the models flow
from my fingers the same way code does when I'm on a coding run.
> If all else falls bake cookies for the kids
> to bribe them to do it.
This never works for me. They want to build using the parts already sorted
instead. (1)(2) But baking cookies is fun, though.
1 - Kids are entropy agents in a big way. Order is NOT their friend.
2 - and it's hard to get mad since building IS fun, after all.
++Lar
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| > Ah, the canonical sorting debate has arisen. There is a camp > (myself among the adherents) that feels that sorting by color > is a total waste of time (except for green :-)). Far more > important to sort by size and type. Yes, yes, we've all (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) I hear you. My kids are really bad about building from sorted bins. For about a week after I've done major sorting, they'll come up with creations made from all 1xN plates, or only round pieces. Thought about sorting by colors vs sorting by (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| Larry Pieniazek <lpien@NOSPAM.ctp.com> wrote (...) Trust him. It is. For small amounts having "misc" bins works well, but I use a threshold of about 2x4x2" of small parts before I split them out. This is because with Technic I find it easier to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) doing (...) way. My current method is as follows: followed by 12 sentences of detailed instructions. I've been married to an engineer for 20 years now, and feel compelled to offer you some advice on sorting (knowing the engineer type so well). (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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