From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>,
Samuel W Flint <swflint@flintfam.org>,
emacs development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Quick Lego Survey
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:24:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXoioB8XUkK5tn0h7hUwsA=7JDpPWeCzRqTzsppryp71moA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <043EC533-79C5-4C55-9CD1-C5FE9A6CB075@swipnet.se>
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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
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> As a child I had bags of unsorted Legopieces. Those where the days...
>
> Jan D.
>
> 16 aug 2014 kl. 19:39 skrev dhruva <dhruvakm+ml@gmail.com>:
>
> Not an Emacs developer here but still want to share my memories.
>
> I played with LEGO. It was unaffordable in India. It was only when someone
> travelled abroad and returned, we could even hope of getting a LEGO kit as
> a gift.
>
> The first kit we got had very few pieces and we soon ran out of options.
> After a many years, we got a fire engine LEGO kit with many pieces. Mixing
> the 2 kits, our imagination was the limit!
>
> Much later, LEGO partnered with an Indian toy manufacturer and it became
> more affordable.
>
> Tetris in GNU Emacs always reminds be of LEGO due to the color and shape
> of falling blocks...
>
> -dhruva
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> <angry>The plural is "LEGO" NOT "Legos"</angry>
>>
>> I did.
>>
>> I've also worked for LEGO where they taught me to be as annoyed as they
>> are about people pluralizing it wrong.
>>
>>
>> Nic
>>
>>
>>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-17 1:24 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 [this message]
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
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2014-08-19 14:34 Tim Chambers
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