From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>,
"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
"Samuel W Flint" <swflint@flintfam.org>,
"Emacs-Devel devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Quick Lego Survey
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:37:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx5ackpk.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXohXZzGyW4218btB2aee+FXW0ib2rz4xkmwrGVNE5rN+NA@mail.gmail.com> (John Yates's message of "Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:53:56 -0400")
John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org> writes:
>> ... even if your mum and dad dit not have money to buy much Lego.
>
> I mentioned earlier that my childhood predated Lego and that instead I
> played with AC Gilbert Erector Set
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set>.
Haha, "Boys today, /men tomorrow/"! (Reads if there was a parental
advisory on the back mentioning "Don't give to girls!").
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.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-18 7:37 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 [this message]
2014-08-18 8:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-08-18 9:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-20 4:38 ` Bill Wohler
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2014-08-19 14:34 Tim Chambers
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