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From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT: Quick Lego Survey
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:38:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iolnbwrw.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fvgwbjzr.fsf@turing.flintfam.org

Samuel W Flint <swflint@flintfam.org> writes:

> I understand this is kind of off topic, however, I was wondering how
> many of the Emacs Developers played with Legos a lot as a kid.

Of course. And in the 60s and early 70s, we didn't have any sets--with
instructions--that you see today, just big boxes of glorious bricks,
with which you could build anything and everything. Lincoln Logs and
Tinker Toys also come to mind. Never had an Erector Set, although I knew
about it.

-- 
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> aka <Bill.Wohler@nasa.gov>
http://www.newt.com/wohler/
GnuPG ID:610BD9AD




  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-16 14:13 OT: Quick Lego Survey Samuel W Flint
2014-08-16 14:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-08-16 17:00 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-08-16 17:39   ` dhruva
2014-08-16 20:15     ` Jan Djärv
2014-08-17  1:24       ` John Yates
2014-08-17  2:06         ` gottlieb
2014-08-17 13:23 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-08-17 16:49   ` Lennart Borgman
2014-08-17 17:53     ` John Yates
2014-08-18  7:37       ` Tassilo Horn
2014-08-18  8:40         ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-08-18  9:12           ` David Kastrup
2014-08-20  4:38 ` Bill Wohler [this message]
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2014-08-19 14:34 Tim Chambers

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