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In lugnet.castle, Aaron West writes:
**snip**
> An oddity that occurs within this system is the vanishing brick effect,
> similar to what you describe. Any given brick will become visible through
> the course of a sift and search expedition, only to vanish when the hunt
> turns toward it. This can cause a simple model construction to extend into
> the hours when all sane folk go beddy-bye.
Preach it, brother! This has driven me crazy for decades!
A further, minor corrolary is that the initially-sought piece will become
visible again, often in large numbers, once an inferior or less desirable
substitute (2 1x4 bricks for a 2x4, et al) is thoroughly entrenched in a model
so that removing it would be a bigger pain than leaving it in.
Dave!
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In lugnet.castle, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Aaron West writes:
> **snip**
> > An oddity that occurs within this system is the vanishing brick effect,
> > similar to what you describe. Any given brick will become visible through
> > the course of a sift and search expedition, only to vanish when the hunt
> > turns toward it. This can cause a simple model construction to extend into
> > the hours when all sane folk go beddy-bye.
>
> Preach it, brother! This has driven me crazy for decades!
> A further, minor corrolary is that the initially-sought piece will become
> visible again, often in large numbers, once an inferior or less desirable
> substitute (2 1x4 bricks for a 2x4, et al) is thoroughly entrenched in a model
> so that removing it would be a bigger pain than leaving it in.
I must add yet another corrolary that I discovered... I felt it appropriate
enough to hunt this thread up for it... :-)
Any piece that is completly unwanted will appear in the largest quantities
possible, in a very ubiquitous manner. Once you find a good use for the piece,
it will vanish.
I discovered this today, while trying to find those red parrots that were
*everywhere* just a few days ago... :-)
-Shiri
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One more collary to add to this thread:
If a piece of Lego has a sharp point on it and falls to the ground, the point
will always be facing up. This piece can only be located by stepping on it with
bare feet. :-)
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In lugnet.castle, Dave Johann writes:
> One more collary to add to this thread:
>
> If a piece of Lego has a sharp point on it and falls to the ground, the point
> will always be facing up. This piece can only be located by stepping on it • with
> bare feet. :-)
And after the initial shock of the impaled foot is felt, you are unconciously
driven to lift your foot off the ground very abruptly, placing yourself in the
least stable standing position possible. Then after trying in vain to grab
hold of something, you fall over, either onto: 1) a pile of equally sharp
Lego, 2) one of your better creations, or 3) the tub that the rest of your
Lego is in, splitting the tub open and causing the contents to spill out
everywhere. The last one has actually happened to me on two separate occasions.
Greg Majewski
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/1888/abs.html
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In lugnet.castle, Greg Majewski writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Dave Johann writes:
> > One more collary to add to this thread:
> >
> > If a piece of Lego has a sharp point on it and falls to the ground, the point
> > will always be facing up. This piece can only be located by stepping on it • with
> > bare feet. :-)
>
> And after the initial shock of the impaled foot is felt, you are unconciously
> driven to lift your foot off the ground very abruptly, placing yourself in the
> least stable standing position possible. Then after trying in vain to grab
> hold of something, you fall over, either onto: 1) a pile of equally sharp
> Lego, 2) one of your better creations, or 3) the tub that the rest of your
> Lego is in, splitting the tub open and causing the contents to spill out
> everywhere. The last one has actually happened to me on two separate
> occasions.
Or, if you're *really* lucky, you don't fall, but manage to jump to a
different location - which of course also has a few sharp pieces...
Having wall-to-wall carpeting never helps, somehow...
-Shiri
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"Greg Majewski" <citrusx__@yahoo.com> writes:
> And after the initial shock of the impaled foot is felt, you are
> unconciously driven to lift your foot off the ground very abruptly, • placing
> yourself in the least stable standing position possible. Then after
trying in >vain to grab hold of something, you fall over, either onto...
3) the tub that >the rest of your Lego is in, splitting the tub open and
causing the contents >to spill out everywhere. The last one has actually
happened to me on two >separate occasions.
All the boxes my LEGO is sorted into are rather large, so while building,
I tend to stack them around me. However, in order to be able to reach
certain pieces, I often have to move boxes around or shift them, so most
of the time, the boxes are precariously balanced. When I reach over to
grab a box just out of reach, I sometimes lose my balance and set my hand
into the unsupported portion of one of these precariously balanced boxes.
If I'm lucky, the pieces spill only onto the carpet, and not into half a
dozen other boxes...
Enough rambling,
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com
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WWW: http://www.chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/
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On Mon, 1 May 2000 02:47:48 GMT, Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com>
wrote:
> All the boxes my LEGO is sorted into are rather large, so while building,
> I tend to stack them around me. However, in order to be able to reach
> certain pieces, I often have to move boxes around or shift them, so most
> of the time, the boxes are precariously balanced. When I reach over to
> grab a box just out of reach, I sometimes lose my balance and set my hand
> into the unsupported portion of one of these precariously balanced boxes.
> If I'm lucky, the pieces spill only onto the carpet, and not into half a
> dozen other boxes...
> Enough rambling,
> --Bram
Sounds like what happens to me. End up catapulting a monorail sized
box full of pieces at me showering not only myself but the rest of my
sorted boxes with miscellanious pieces. Quite exciting.
Kya
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In lugnet.general, Bram Lambrecht writes:
>
> All the boxes my LEGO is sorted into are rather large, so while building,
> I tend to stack them around me. However, in order to be able to reach
> certain pieces, I often have to move boxes around or shift them, so most
> of the time, the boxes are precariously balanced. When I reach over to
> grab a box just out of reach, I sometimes lose my balance and set my hand
> into the unsupported portion of one of these precariously balanced boxes.
> If I'm lucky, the pieces spill only onto the carpet, and not into half a
> dozen other boxes...
I can relate to Brams last comment about pieces falling into the wrong
boxes--this has happened to me more than a few times.
As for the problem of dropping/falling Lego, this does not trouble me much at
all. Since the day Lego was brought into my life, I have been building on the
floor. 25 years of sitting on the floor playing with Lego has not been kind to
my knees, but that is another topic.
By builidng on the floor, the dropped piece has nowhere to go--it is already
quite near the floor.
A tip for those of you in search of that dropped piece--
USE A FLASHLIGHT.
Keep a flashlight on your building table and you can then quickly spot that
missing piece, no matter where it has fallen--90 percent of the time, anyway.
As for cats snatching Lego bricks, I suggest using bait. A bunch of old Yellow
2x2 bricks work well and are somewhat easy to locate when searching for them
again. Simply throw one to the cat when he/she approaches or looks hungry for
some plastic to chew and kidnap.
__Kevin Salm__
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Bram Lambrecht wrote:
> All the boxes my LEGO is sorted into are rather large, so while building,
> I tend to stack them around me. However, in order to be able to reach
> certain pieces, I often have to move boxes around or shift them, so most
> of the time, the boxes are precariously balanced. When I reach over to
> grab a box just out of reach, I sometimes lose my balance and set my hand
> into the unsupported portion of one of these precariously balanced boxes.
> If I'm lucky, the pieces spill only onto the carpet, and not into half a
> dozen other boxes...
This is one advantage of my system where most parts are in resealable
bags (such as ZipLoc). Of course it adds a new way for Murphy to strike
- you pick up an unsealed bag by the bottom...
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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This is perhaps my biggest problem whenever I'm trying to rebuild an old
set. The piece I need is ALWAYS in the one box that has been buried under
all the other boxes.
Dave
Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote in message
news:20000430.213215.5095.0.braml@juno.com...
> "Greg Majewski" <citrusx__@yahoo.com> writes:
> > And after the initial shock of the impaled foot is felt, you are
> > unconciously driven to lift your foot off the ground very abruptly, • placing
> > yourself in the least stable standing position possible. Then after
> trying in >vain to grab hold of something, you fall over, either onto...
> 3) the tub that >the rest of your Lego is in, splitting the tub open and
> causing the contents >to spill out everywhere. The last one has actually
> happened to me on two >separate occasions.
>
> All the boxes my LEGO is sorted into are rather large, so while building,
> I tend to stack them around me. However, in order to be able to reach
> certain pieces, I often have to move boxes around or shift them, so most
> of the time, the boxes are precariously balanced. When I reach over to
> grab a box just out of reach, I sometimes lose my balance and set my hand
> into the unsupported portion of one of these precariously balanced boxes.
> If I'm lucky, the pieces spill only onto the carpet, and not into half a
> dozen other boxes...
> Enough rambling,
> --Bram
>
>
> Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com
> -------------------oooo-----(_)-----oooo-------------------
> WWW: http://www.chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/
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> This is one advantage of my system where most parts are in resealable
> bags (such as ZipLoc). Of course it adds a new way for Murphy to strike
> - you pick up an unsealed bag by the bottom...
Indeed. Or when you have your little Plano tackle boxes, filled with parts,
turn around in your chair, your arm hits an object, and you have a MIRV type
LEGO dispearsal all over the place. : )
Here is a container:
http://www.geocities.com/legoguy712/new-pictures-3299/sort-bin1.jpg
Or when you grab a container, not knowing it is closed, or you accidently
drop it, and boom! Instant resorting! My worst instance is when I had a
chest of 60 drawers near the stairs, in the loft area of my condo, and I
tripped and sent the entire drawer on the floor, where I had about two hours
of LEGO sorting and finding, on two floors. Ugh!
Old Building area:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/build-sort.html
Drawer in question: (On the far right, where I am, I guess! : ) )
http://www.geocities.com/legoguy712/build-overall-2.JPG
Scott "This is happened too many times to me" Sanburn
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Scott E. Sanburn
Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> http://www.aeieng.com
LEGO Page -> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/legoindex.html
Coming Soon: The Sanburn Systems Company
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"Dave Johann" <hardcoredj@techie.com> wrote:
> One more collary to add to this thread:
>
> If a piece of Lego has a sharp point on it and falls to the ground, the point
> will always be facing up. This piece can only be located by stepping on it with
> bare feet. :-)
...Or alternately: "A 1x1 trans-* piece that falls on the floor can only be found by the
vacuum cleaner"... this after my daughter tipped over my 1x1 trans dot box :-/
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wamalug guy (http://wamalug.org)
wildlink.com
lugnet #160
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