But think of all the popcorn we are able to consume watching you shitshow. This is way more entertaining than the usual movies, series, and shows that you produce!

Eight inches, not seven. Got a story with that…

Back when I was in school, I was working on the side on expanding an ERP system for a customer. Said customer got a stack of printouts from their main supplier each January: The new price list. They meticiously typed that 300+ pages list into their own ERP system, and then checked it for errors. This took the boss and his wife a good part of January and February. Every year.

So I told him that the main supplier already has that data in a computer, why does he not ask to get the price list on disk, and I see whether I can get them into the system via a software import. He called them, asked me back if “IBM Format” would be OK, and I said yes. Surprise: The supplier had an IBM mainframe and sent us an 8" floppy. Luckily, the boss knew the right people with the right equipment and got me a copy on 5.25" and in ASCII (the original was in EBCDIC).

It took me one day to figure out the format, write an importer, and run it to completion. Boss and wife were very happy.

Sorry, don’t remember, that was somewhere in the 90s or 00s.

I draw the line right behind them. Where the real search results start.

I just found it is the head from Set 2507. Special moulded parts for one set, and then painted from several sides - must cost a fortune in production and development. For that money, they could have made a brick-built on.

With windscreens it is a mixed issue. Some have multiple uses, but some are not as good in that regard.

My favourite piece is the plate 2x3, because it is the best piece to build flowing landscapes.

There is no single “least favourite” for me, but a group: Any single-use part, especially the large ones. Like plane cockpits. Or many StarWars things. I just found a LEGO-car sized red dragons head while washing parts. WTF?

I did that Easter calculation for a spreadsheet calender once. Calculating it was easy, getting it into the calendar display was a pain…

There are GSM modems that can be used by the server to send an SMS. I nearly bought one when it was cheap, but noticed just in time that the GSM level of that device was 3, which is no longer available here. And it needs a valid Sim card to work.

Looks good. Does it do Easter calculation?

That will only kill a European if the American who ate it sat down on the European.

Part of the problem is that some seller cram loads of words into the article that have no real connection to the article as such.

Try purchasing wires or electronic components from Amazon. Same shit, only worse.

The old “Reddish Brown” as of three or more years ago is know to be brittle. LEGO has changed to formula since which apparently fixed that.

Apart from your problem of getting the remains out, just contact LEGO support for free replacement parts, as this is a known and accepted issue. Keep the parts, though, if you ask for a larger number of parts, they might want the broken pieces back as proof (theoretically, I have nor heard of such a case personally).

Reminds me of a translation job my wife and I did. This was before google and any kind of translation engine. It was just a small text to be included in a CD case. But there was a thorough listing of the instruments played by the artist: about a dozen different kinds of trumpets. Even though our command of the English language is quite good, we were at a loss. We could not just write that “He plays a trumpet, a trumpet, a trumpet, and a trumpet”, and no dictionary we had access to was in any way helpful.

So we got pictures and information on all those “Trumpets”, got our hands on an English book on musical instruments, and painstakingly identified each single instrument. It took us days to translate a single column of text, but at least those trumpets had their proper names.

Imagine this would happen in the US! The police would have shot the lava!

EDIT: For the Downvoters: Of course they would have shot the lava. Have you seen it? Its black!

Anyone running a construction business also has a lot of stored diesel fuel.

But they don’t usually have tons of fertilizers, too.

My sorting works as follows:

• There are four sizes of transparent boxes: About 4.5 liters, 9 liters, 18 liters and 36 liters.
• Some colors I have so little of that all pieces fit into a small box, often just unsorted like “Bright Light Yellow” - although there is one part of which I actually have a bag of that makes up 80% of that color.
• Some colors have more parts, so I have a 9/18/36 liter box with bags of all parts with that color. Basically a color grows until it fills up a 36 liter box, and then splits, but there are exceptions like “Dark Red” of which I have a 18 liter box for the miscellaneous bags, but also a 9 liter box full of “Dark Red Plate 1x2”, as I need them en masse for brickworks.
• Sometimes, I have boxes for groups like “Yellow Bricks”, “Yellow Plates”, “Yellow Tiles”, “Yellow Slopes”, “Yellow Technic Parts” (all depending on the amount) and “Yellow Other”.
• With other colors, depending on the amount, I may even split those in e.g. “Dark Bluish Gray Plates Small”, “Dark Bluish Gray Plates Medium”, and “Dark Bluish Gray Plates Large”.
• And, while I do have a “Dark Bluish Gray Plates Small”, the “Dark Bluish Gray Plates 2x4” have an extra box on their own due to the amount I’ve got.
• Some parts I have so many of that I have dedicated large boxes for a single kind of part of that color, e.g. “Black Slopes 45° 2x4” or even several large boxes like “Dark Green Leaf Elements 5x6”.
• Most of those “group” boxes are of the 18 or 36 liter variant.
• Most of the “dedicated” boxes are of the 9 liter variant, but 18 and even 36 are not uncommon. The parts are usually specially collected/bought for previous or for future projects. Like I have an 18 liter box of “Tan Plate 1x2 with one Stud (Jumper Plate)” from a past project.
• I have two shelves of boxes for black parts alone, one shelf for Dark Bluish Gray, one (currently overflowing) for Light Bluish Gray, one for Tan and Dark Tan, and one for Green, Dark Green, and Lime Green. All the other colors share another five shelves.
• Boxes may “grow” or “shrink” or even “dissolve”, depending on the project state. At the moment, I have only three smaller projects built as MOCs, and over 10 square meters of landscape and stuff torn down, so most of my parts are shelved. When I build larger MOCs for which I have collected special parts in large amounts, even a 36 liter box of single parts can vanish in no time. I had a box of “Light Bluish Gray Plates 16x16” before I started my Moonbase project. Now I’m down to exactly one plate, which moved into the “Light Bluish Gray Plates” box, together with the original boxes tags (I have laminated signs for my boxes). That box will soon be reactivated (I’m expecting another 100 plates in the next month or two), and then deplete over the building time of the project again.

Juggling that man parts is a headache alone. On top of that I’ve got a stack of ten boxes of “presorted” stuff, i.e. parts coming back from cleaning and drying which are already bagged together with new purchases which all have to move into the right storage boxes.

I hope that answers your question…

Especially farmers. Many of them have stores of diesel fuel and fertilizer…

Yes, I have. I use them for storing parts, i.e. I have boxes like “Black slopes 45°”, and inside that box I have bags with the different kinds of matching slopes. Of course, BL orders are a mixed bag there, some have one bag for a number of different parts, some use re-sealed bags from sets or normal plastic bags sealed thermally, and usually, those bags are rather small, as I don’t oder large quantities there.

So I actually buy resealable bags, mostly medium and larger size, but I also re-use the resealable bags I receive as long as they are still OK.

I don’t think this will work on the long run.

First, the hold on the rim must be very tight and precise or the wheel will wobble like mad.

Second, such a tight hold will be very sensitive to any kind of dirt, so it has to be sealed.

Any seal tight enough to keep extremely small dirt out will cause loads of friction.

Tight seals in general is not an option, they exist en masse with e.g. hydraulic cylinders. But for them, the friction is basically a non-issue in comparison to the overall power budget. But I cannot imagine an even halfway free wheeling wheel that will not break down after getting in contact with a bit of sand.