From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: OT: Quick Lego Survey Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:37:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87tx5ackpk.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> References: <87fvgwbjzr.fsf@turing.flintfam.org> <3708638.W9jRf4TzA0@descartes> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408347470 29097 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2014 07:37:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=BCdiger?= Sonderfeld , Lennart Borgman , Samuel W Flint , Emacs-Devel devel To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 18 09:37:43 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 1XJHVd-0002Tf-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:37:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJHVd-0005eu-7W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45595) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJHVH-0005Xr-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJHVC-0003Ns-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]:57565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJHVC-0003Ni-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:37:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837453D6008; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:37:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id y0QV8M2oBlkE; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:37:13 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tsdh@gnu.org Original-Received: from thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org (dhcp131.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.71.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 329D73D6004; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:37:13 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Followup-To: John Yates , Lennart Borgman , =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=BCdiger?= Sonderfeld , Samuel W Flint , Emacs-Devel devel In-Reply-To: (John Yates's message of "Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:53:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 141.26.64.15 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:173734 Archived-At: John Yates 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 > . 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