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clipka wrote:
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> Now that I see it - yes, I have heard of "Meccano" before. I actually owned one
> or two sets of "Märklin Metallbaukasten". I'm not sure whether it's exactly the
> same though - my father had owned at least one set he was young, but he also
> must have owned an "incompatible" one. Looking back, I guess those used an
> inch-based system while the "Metallbaukasten" used a metric one.
>
Heck, *I* remember Meccano. OTOH not because they would've been popular
or something when I was a child - more because me and my brother found
our fathers old Meccano-sets when we were kids (they still were a great
fun, though).
-Aero
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Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethis zbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> Larry Hudson wrote:
> >
> > I was born in '37 so I'm also a grumbling old man (more of a curmudgeon
> > actually). ;-) So my childhood was also pre-plastics. My equivalent
> > nostalgia is for (all metal) Erector Sets.
>
> I have a strange feeling that that name would be considered somewhat
> weird and/or unsuitable for children's set.
Cartoons from that era too were very politically incorrect and violent to
today's high standards of weenieness.
But I'm really surprised any time I see povray newsgroups lurkers, specially
this age. I thought povray was just a geek's hobby. Well, not like as you age
your geekiness will abandon you... :P
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and finally one to match the barrel, I know you were thinkin it.
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ok when the laser was hitting the the side of the barrel was looking good, maybe
some kind of lens is in order.
latest file at the site if you wanna play, sleepin good tonight...
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"stbenge" <^@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:495a972c$1@news.povray.org...
> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht
>> news:web.4959be41877dfbf3ab169ede0@news.povray.org...
>>> (*... wanders off into nostalgic dreams...*)
>>>
>> We, grumbling old men, lwe ived before your blessed Lego generation :-)
>
> Hah, I knew it :)
<grin>
>
>> But we had Schucco, and Dincky Toy, and Meccano, and Matchbox to play
>> with! Ah! Those were the days! I also owned a kind of forerunner to Lego
>> (don't remember the name just now) also with plastic bricks but a bit
>> larger...
>
> American Building Bricks? For building houses mainly? If so, we had some
> hand-me-downs from our mother. Red and white blocks mostly, with smaller,
> narrower pegs which didn't hold tight. We had a very incomplete set
> though...
>
I still cannot remember the name... :-( ...Age... <grumbling in beard>
Indeed, the bricks were white and red, and also transparant. They often did
not hold too well either.
Thomas
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"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> schreef in bericht
news:web.495afd00877dfbf3180057960@news.povray.org...
>
> But I'm really surprised any time I see povray newsgroups lurkers,
> specially
> this age. I thought povray was just a geek's hobby. Well, not like as
> you age
> your geekiness will abandon you... :P
>
>
I have the hunch that the average age of these groups is higher than you
imagine.... :-)
And geeks come indeed at any age... but we take our hobby veeeerrrryyyy
seriously!
Thomas
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"stbenge" <^@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:495a98ab@news.povray.org...
> [....] They didn't understand that Legos give only what you put into them,
> that the lessons learned are useful in other areas. *sigh* :)
>
Absolutely! I am convinced that Meccano prepared me for POV-Ray, among other
things...
Thomas
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:20:32 +0100, "Thomas de Groot"
<tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
>
>"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> schreef in bericht
>news:web.495afd00877dfbf3180057960@news.povray.org...
>>
>> But I'm really surprised any time I see povray newsgroups lurkers,
>> specially
>> this age. I thought povray was just a geek's hobby. Well, not like as
>> you age
>> your geekiness will abandon you... :P
>>
>>
>
>I have the hunch that the average age of these groups is higher than you
>imagine.... :-)
>
>And geeks come indeed at any age... but we take our hobby veeeerrrryyyy
>seriously!
Indeed we do ;)
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:20:32 +0100, "Thomas de Groot"
> <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
>
>> I have the hunch that the average age of these groups is higher than you
>> imagine.... :-)
>>
>
> There are more things in Heaven and PovRay than in… :)
...radiosity settings
>> And geeks come indeed at any age... but we take our hobby veeeerrrryyyy
>> seriously!
>
> Indeed we do ;)
Though I wouldn't consider raytracing as geeky hobby. I think it's more
mathematical hobby.
-Aero
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Though I wouldn't consider raytracing as geeky hobby. I think it's more
> mathematical hobby.
Mathematical geeks.
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