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And now it happens! @rcgrier3406
Whoa!! It only took them 30+ years to figure out there would be a following for this!! Guess I know what’s on my Christmas list for next year!!
@tcsbgdady, which minifig do you think will be the most in demand? I’m going with either Guinan or Wesley Crusher!
Re https://www.steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/brickfair-va-2025-chantilly/#post-62468
@timf what’s your secret for uploading multiple pictures at once? Every time I try, it errors out and either only posts the first one or simply doesn’t post.
>> what’s your secret for uploading multiple pictures at once? Every time I try, it errors out and either only posts the first one or simply doesn’t post.
This site doesn’t like large files. Are you resizing the pics to 1500 or 1200 pixels wide? Using that method, I can usually post three at a time.
PS – I went and looked at Tim’s post, he didn’t actually attach photos, they’re links to Flickr pages, and the pic you see is a preview. Even then, I’ve found this site to be fussy about it, I’ve had Flickr links not work at all, which I have presumed is because the photo the link goes to is too big for this site.
@gabevistica, what I’ve found that works is to attach one photo with the original post and then go back and “Edit” the post after it’s up to add more photos. Doing it that way they stack up with your original post. You have to add them one at a time, and it’s a pain, but it works.
what’s your secret for uploading multiple pictures at once?
@gabevistica I copied and pasted the links from Flickr into the body of the message, rather than choosing and uploading the picture through the CHOOSE FILE button. The system will normal then import the pictures. I’mnot sure why it works, but it does.
>> I think I know who would rent this bounce house …
This made me el-oh-el. I was a little disappointed though when I realized that the ladder with the guy hosing down the building is just decoration – I thought at first that it was a slide that we could slide down.
Some of you may remember that last year there was a Willy Wonka themed event in Glasgow that was an unqualified disaster, drawing comparisons to the Fyre Festival and similar failures. I’m pretty sure it came up here in the context of whether or not we should keep doing BrickFest.
At the time, the news articles could only report using the information they had, and although we got the gist of it, I remember them to be very short on specifics. This week, however, I discovered that the event has its own Wikipedia entry, and it’s not short. For those who find these kinds of stories to be endlessly fascinating (although I do feel guilty about it, because people do suffer when these things occur), it’s definitely worth reading.
The story clearly got a lot of press, because there’s a parody video that aired on Jimmy Kimmel, in which they got the actor (now an adult) who played Charlie Bucket in the 2005 movie to play the Wonka character. I’m not gonna post a link to that, but it’s easy to find on YT if you do a search for it, and I was pretty amused.
I wanted to see if anyone might be able to help @smallfrost with a school assignment. Jonah needs to interview someone who has direct experience of a national or local historic event and had their life directly impacted by it. Topics have ranged from local topics including the closure of West View Park, Hurricane Ivan flooding, and the decline of Western Pennsylvania steel mills to more nationwide or worldwide topics including the Vietnam War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the first post-Apartheid election in South Africa.
I was wondering if any of the LUG’s more “experienced” members might have a story they would be willing to share. @greg @rcgrier3406 @bengood921 @carlsonf Any others?
A few notable events occurred around me when I was slightly younger than @smallfrost.
Flight 93 crashed a few miles from my house on 9/11. Our school was evacuated and you could see the smoke from our farm.
I also lived down the street from the Quecreek mine rescue. Our family knew the family who’s land was used to drill the rescue shaft. I saw some of the rescue equipment being brought in on 601.
This is a stretch, but I was a junior in high school near Three Mile Island when it melted down. (1978) After college, I trained to be a nuclear engineer in the US Navy. Unfortunately, when I got out of the service, nuclear energy in the US had stalled because of Chernobyl (1986).
@tfdesigns @smallfrost Hurricane Ivan came through Pittsburgh the day before mine and Will’s wedding. It made for a very fun rehearsal that day.
Lots of great tie-ins for you @smallfrost! I can tie my being laid off from Westinghouse at age 58 to the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Westinghouse and other commercial nuclear vendors went from a posture of preparing to sell many new plants, to an intense industry-wide shift to analyzing and defining lessons learned from the disaster, and making modifications to the world’s fleet of reactors to harden them against similar scenarios. Westinghouse went through a large downsizing that was life-changing for me.
veritasium is one of my favorite youtube channels. Here’s everything you didn’t know about QR codes. Thanks, Greg, for being on the forefront of technology!
veritasium
the next story down is better … they show a full orchestra plays the Simpson’s theme song!
I’d love to participate, but I can’t really figure out what all y’all are talking about. Will there be a theme for the build? Is it be a town? a mosaic? Will it be anything goes as long as you use a specific color? Will an entire section include only red parts? These are the things that keep me up at night.
Trying times, to be sure. At least your biggest worries have to do with LEGO displays instead of problems in the world outside of LEGO. So, you got that goin’ for ya… which is nice!
So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know. And he says, Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
– Carl Spackler, Caddy Shack
Am I imagining things, or did European bricklink stores recently decide to stop selling to customers in the US? There seem to be an awful lot of red squares these days …
I’ve come across quite a few that ship to the US but not to PA specifically. There’s apparently something funky about collecting tax for our state.
Found my discussion with a German seller. When asked why he lists the US as a shipping destination but not PA specifically he said:
“I know that.
If I do that, I have to pay the PP fees.
And why should I collect the taxes for the USA?
Lutz”After asking why he still lists the US as a shipping destination (and pointing out he already collects a PayPal fee):
“As far as I know, three states do not make this agreement and they are NH or OR or AK
If you are registered there you can buy in our shop”That seller doesn’t understand how it works or is being overly grumpy about having to charge you a few percent (PayPal fees) of a few percent (state tax) extra that they don’t get to keep, which adds up to maybe a dollar on a huge order.
I’m not sure sellers can choose to ship to some states and not others, and usually it’s actually some weird glitch in Bricklink that they haven’t figured out or bothered to fix yet. I’ve seen US-based stores where Bricklink says they don’t ship to me, but I also can check out just fine and still receive my entire order because the seller didn’t actually set it that way. According to the bricklink forum, the fix usually involves unlinking and relinking the seller’s PayPal account.
I don’t think there is a specific list where they can choose to ship to only certain state, but (as of a year ago) there was a Seller setting they needed to enable to collect that additional fee. If they don’t enable that setting then they end up showing able to ship to US, but not able to ship states where the fee was required.
ing, you know, for the effort, you know. And he says, Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
– Carl Spackler, Caddy Shack
A friend of mine in college and I used to constantly quote this to each other. Classic!
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