From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: OT: Quick Lego Survey Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:40:12 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140818084012.GA21644@thyrsus.com> References: <87fvgwbjzr.fsf@turing.flintfam.org> <3708638.W9jRf4TzA0@descartes> <87tx5ackpk.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408351274 10255 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2014 08:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:41:14 +0000 (UTC) To: John Yates , Lennart Borgman , =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld , Samuel W Flint , Emacs-Devel devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 18 10:41:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJIV1-0001pC-To for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:41:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJIV1-0003o6-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJIUk-0003nv-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJIUc-0004vB-Rk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:41993 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJIUc-0004v6-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:40:42 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2B25538065E; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:40:12 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tx5ackpk.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173736 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn : > Back to the original question: yes, I've played with LEGO (and LEGO > Technic later). But at least here in Germany that's probably the most > common toy after teddy bears, so I wouldn't look for some correlation > between playing LEGO and becoming a hacker or engineer. Interesting. Legos aren't quite that common in th the U.S., and *are* commonly thought to be something you give your kid if you want to encourage engineering tendencies. -- Eric S. Raymond