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Man Builds 7-foot Grandfather Clock from Lego
Ravalox writes "Eric Harshbarger has built a 7-foot-tall grandfather clock exclusively from Lego. It keeps accurate time and needs no electricity; it needs to be weight reset every 13 hours. Other pictures include the gears, numbers, the face, and the pendulum mechanics."
its just got smashed!
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
...when his (grand)kid shows up and takes the thing apart to play with it.
what's next for him? A seven foot tall girlfriend made entirely of lego?
I can almost hear the gears grinding to a halt as a million clients topple his server.
I wonder what the melting point of legos is...
who had a House of Yes movie poster over my fireplace. Phew. (only on Slashdot..)
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is it's about time someone did this.
We should give this guy a big hand. And then a second hand. But then, he's probably got his hands all in place already.
Can this run Linux? It would be a great NTP server.
sigs, as if you care.
Yeah, that seems like a fair complaint.
Especially when you consider he built a WHOLE GRANDFATHER CLOCK out of legos.
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And I thought I had no life
Laugh, it's funny
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did you just use the word, "easier"?
should he have made it out of, say, chocolate? would you have been impressed then?
you need to re-evaluate your perspective on reality.
you seem nice enough, but was calling an accomplishment like "easier" than something else really necessary?
Man Builds 7 foot Grandfather Cock from Lego. I was just about to rush out and by myself a huge Lego set.
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I hear that in the digitally remastered version, she's holding a walkie-talkie.
Incidentally, was I the only person who expected a poster for something called The House of Yes to be painted by Roger Dean?
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The Lego Grandfather Clock was too tall for the shelf
So it stood for five years on the floor
More complicated by half than my lego castles
And weighed a whole lot more
It was built on the verge of a major Lego urge
And was a major source of his pride
Till its server stopped, short
Never to go again
When 'twas Slashdotted till it died
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When "computer architecture" consisted of asking the question "how big a room do we need to hold it?"
Someone had to do it.
Man Builds 7-Foot Tall Grandfather From Lego ?
Now *that* would be impressive!
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Now if only he could build a lego server powerful enough to fight off the horde that is slashdot...
> > This is the same Eric who built some guy's desk
> > out of LEGO a few years back.
>
> When the boss sees it, he'll help you build a Lego
> Pinkslip. (Do they come in pink?)
This was in 1999 during the dot-com boom. If I recall correctly, some guy included it among his list of demands for a position, and the company hiring him paid to have it made for him.
So, in other words, I'm sure the company has already gone bankrupt.
Color matching? The only colors that the clock matches are McDonald's...
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In Korea, old people are clocks.
Oh, oh, and in Soviet Russia, grandfather clocks you.