From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gottlieb@nyu.edu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT: Quick Lego Survey Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:06:22 -0400 Message-ID: <87wqa76fa9.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <87fvgwbjzr.fsf@turing.flintfam.org> <87egwg4bfz.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <043EC533-79C5-4C55-9CD1-C5FE9A6CB075@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408241220 23667 80.91.229.3 (17 Aug 2014 02:07:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 02:07:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 17 04:06:53 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1XIprx-0000ok-26 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:06:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIprw-0005rq-B3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50674) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIprd-0005rY-UP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIprV-00065F-Jj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:06:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.cims.nyu.edu ([128.122.49.96]:64766) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIprV-00065B-Fm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx2.cims.nyu.edu (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s7H26NfR003912 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:06:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from newlap-wireless.localdomain (ool-182de8a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.232.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s7H26NaI003909 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:06:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by newlap-wireless.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 024BCA980E; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:06:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (John Yates's message of "Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:24:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.1 (mx2.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.96]); Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:06:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at mx2 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 128.122.49.96 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 128.122.49.96 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99245 Archived-At: On Sat, Aug 16 2014, John Yates wrote: > Too old to have played with Lego as a child. My equivalents were Lincoln > Logs, Tinker Toys and especially Erector Set. > > By the time I became a father Lego had appeared Both my daughter and my > son received many Lego sets. We had an elaborate storage system intended > for part in a workshop into which we organized the bricks as part of > project tear down. I spent many happy hour building Lego with both > children. > > /john Same story for me. Only difference is two sons and no daughters. allan