From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: OT: Quick Lego Survey Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:38:43 -0700 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <87iolnbwrw.fsf@olgas.newt.com> References: <87fvgwbjzr.fsf@turing.flintfam.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408509556 21698 80.91.229.3 (20 Aug 2014 04:39:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:39:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 06:39:10 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 1XJxfx-00073b-Hg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:39:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJxfw-0002qL-U1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49058) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJxfp-0002qA-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJxfk-0000s3-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:39:01 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46731) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJxfk-0000rn-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:38:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJxfi-0006vL-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:38:54 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-6-53-16.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([24.6.53.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:38:54 +0200 Original-Received: from wohler by c-24-6-53-16.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:38:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-6-53-16.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UC/igBYI/bAWR6AWijA9LO/LXLQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:173775 Archived-At: Samuel W Flint 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 aka http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD