Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-27 Thread Ben Doom
I already own the Legos. I have two big boxes of them up in a closet. --BenD Larry Lyons wrote: >> I have a predicament? I thought I was just cheap and into Legos. >> >> --BenD >> > >>From the cost of legos, it might be cheaper to buy the mini trebuchet kit. > > ~~~

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Lyons
>I have a predicament? I thought I was just cheap and into Legos. > >--BenD > >Larry Lyons wrote: >> ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Lyons
>I have a predicament? I thought I was just cheap and into Legos. > >--BenD > >From the cost of legos, it might be cheaper to buy the mini trebuchet kit. ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, p

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Lyons
>I have a predicament? I thought I was just cheap and into Legos. > >--BenD > >Larry Lyons wrote: >> ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http:

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Lyons
>I have a predicament? I thought I was just cheap and into Legos. > >--BenD > >Larry Lyons wrote: >> ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http:

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Lyons
>I have a predicament? I thought I was just cheap and into Legos. > >--BenD > >Larry Lyons wrote: >> ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http:

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-27 Thread Ben Doom
I have a predicament? I thought I was just cheap and into Legos. --BenD Larry Lyons wrote: >> My guess would be that you could order these special pieces. I mean, say I >> buy the castle series and my catapult breaks and I need a replacement >> momentum arm. Surely they are not going to make my

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread William Bowen
Lego stores... http://www.lego.com/legostores/Default.asp?x=x The Pick-a-Brick Wall is awesome! Parts galore! > My guess would be that you could order these special pieces. I mean, say I > buy the castle series and my catapult breaks and I need a replacement > momentum arm. Surely they are not g

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Larry Lyons
>My guess would be that you could order these special pieces. I mean, say I >buy the castle series and my catapult breaks and I need a replacement >momentum arm. Surely they are not going to make my buy the whole set, right? > >Bruce > Yes you can get replacement parts, or so the catalog says, but

RE: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Bruce Sorge
, 2007 1:37 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: all you office warriors In several of the Lego kits (the Castle series and the Viking series) they have some catapults. Unless you can get some special built pieces, I'm not sure how you can build things like the momentum arm. Then again the Lego catalo

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Larry Lyons
>Not really. I told you -- I'm going to build one out of Legos. I don't >have time this weekend, but that might be a nice, relaxing project for >next week. And by relaxing, I mean I get to shoot things. > >--BenD In several of the Lego kits (the Castle series and the Viking series) they have

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Larry Lyons
> LOL > > I think I'll get my Boy Scouts to build one. We can make that as part > of Engineering Merit Badge. > They're easy to build. A couple of years ago my wife gave me the desktop trebuchet (and the ferrets were never the same again). All it took were some glue and some clamps. Apparent

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Ben Doom
Not really. I told you -- I'm going to build one out of Legos. I don't have time this weekend, but that might be a nice, relaxing project for next week. And by relaxing, I mean I get to shoot things. --BenD William Bowen wrote: >> so there just isn't room. > > Priorities lad! Priorities! >

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread William Bowen
> so there just isn't room. Priorities lad! Priorities! Do you *want* the Trebuchet or not? :-P -- will "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; and that would just be unacceptable." - Carrie Fisher ~| ColdFusion is

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Skinner
Last year (4th grade) my son's science fair entry was based on a trebuchet. His question was what would be the effect on the distance a projectile would be thrown with different pivot points and counter weights. This provide me the excuse to build my first simple trebuchet complete with an ad

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Skinner
Yep, I did realize it was scale. The arm reaches a max of 32" high, though, so I'm expecting it to need a bit more swing room than the base size. Plus, I have an L-shaped desk, and the arms are only about 36" and covered in stuff (books, caffeine, sunglasses, pens, phone) so there just is

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Russel Madere
We have those big main frame dot matrix printers here in my center, but the paper has the feed strip attached, not perforated :( >If you had any nerd props, you would know that all office construction >starts with "rippy paper" as the primary building material. > >(you know, the removable perfora

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Ben Doom
Yep, I did realize it was scale. The arm reaches a max of 32" high, though, so I'm expecting it to need a bit more swing room than the base size. Plus, I have an L-shaped desk, and the arms are only about 36" and covered in stuff (books, caffeine, sunglasses, pens, phone) so there just is

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Rick Root
On 8/24/07, Wayne Putterill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I miss tractor feed paper :( > > I can't remember the last time I even saw a dot matrix (perhaps I should > have said heard rather than saw). For going through code nothing beats a > nice stack of wide fan fold paper with green stripes, some

RE: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Adam Churvis
ement.com -Original Message- From: Russel Madere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 10:49 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: all you office warriors LOL I think I'll get my Boy Scouts to build one. We can make that as part of Engineering Merit Badge. >>I

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Skinner
Yeah, but probably won't fit on my desk. :-( --BenD Maybe Maybe not, you did read the description right. That it is a 1/20 scale model - ~18 inches high IIRC. That would fit on my desk if I had $190 dollars to spend and the kit was actually in stock.

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Ben Doom
Yeah, but probably won't fit on my desk. :-( --BenD Larry Lyons wrote: >> I prefer the trebuchet ... >> >> http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/81e6/ >> >>> Should like this... >>> >>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8530/ > > That's not a trebuchet, its just kindling waiting to h

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Russel Madere
LOL I think I'll get my Boy Scouts to build one. We can make that as part of Engineering Merit Badge. >>I prefer the trebuchet ... > >That's not a trebuchet, its just kindling waiting to happen. This is a >trebuchet. >http://www.trebuchet.com/content/pages/10201 ~

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Ben Doom
I threw out an Epson LQ-800 in 1998 because it was cheaper to buy a new inkjet printer, ink, and copy paper than to continue buying ribbons and tractor-feed. It was sad. --BenD Wayne Putterill wrote: > I miss tractor feed paper :( > > I can't remember the last time I even saw a dot matrix (pe

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Jerry Johnson
Plus, the highlighter is hard to clean off the monitor. On 8/24/07, Wayne Putterill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I'm all nostalgic, I know on screen debuggers etc. make the job more > efficient but the sheer satisfaction of spotting the bug in print takes some > beating... ~~~

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-24 Thread Wayne Putterill
I miss tractor feed paper :( I can't remember the last time I even saw a dot matrix (perhaps I should have said heard rather than saw). For going through code nothing beats a nice stack of wide fan fold paper with green stripes, some highlighter pens and enough desk space to spread out. Now I'm a

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-23 Thread Jerry Johnson
If you had any nerd props, you would know that all office construction starts with "rippy paper" as the primary building material. (you know, the removable perforation strips on the sides of tractor feed paper) In its natural state (paper), folded in half length wise, it functions well as girders

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-23 Thread Larry Lyons
>I prefer the trebuchet ... > >http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/81e6/ > >>Should like this... >> >>http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8530/ That's not a trebuchet, its just kindling waiting to happen. This is a trebuchet. http://www.trebuchet.com/content/pages/10201

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-23 Thread Ben Doom
I'm planning on building a Lego trebuchet. Just seems like a good project for me. :-) --BenD Dana Tierney wrote: > Should like this... > > http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8530/ > > ~| Get involved in the latest

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-23 Thread Russel Madere
I prefer the trebuchet ... http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/81e6/ >Should like this... > >http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8530/ ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharin

Re: all you office warriors

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Skinner
Dana Tierney wrote: > Should like this... > > http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8530/ It is a good thing I do not have any money, or I would not have any money! ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scala

RE: all you office warriors

2007-08-23 Thread Bruce Sorge
Nice. Gotta get one of those along with the binary clock. Bruce -Original Message- From: Dana Tierney Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 1:24 PM To: CF-Community Subject: all you office warriors Should like this... http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8530

all you office warriors

2007-08-23 Thread Dana Tierney
Should like this... http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8530/ ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/