Anyone else get one of those big ol' Erector sets full of nuts, bolts, screws and metal pieces?
Especially great were the sets that came with motors! Throw in some gears and pulleys and the imagination was the limit.
Another back from the 70s were the Riveton (Rivetron?) sets, a plastic sort of Erector set with rubber rivets instead of nuts & bolts.
And who could forget the classic "Girder N Panel" sets? Anyone else have those sets of little columns and girders that came with plastic window and roof panels? In the 70s there were a couple of different sets, one with special pieces for bridges and one with window/roof panels for skyscrapers. But before that there were many many different types of sets.
The organizers of the Crufts dog show have just reported that tickets for the show have sold out for the next three years...seems like especially heavy sales from/. readers hoping for to spy a bit of the 'streak'.
Anyone have the ph#/web site for this crufts show?!?
Well, it's obvious the British aren't involved in making this Jaguar, if only because they haven't yet figured out how to make a computer without having it leak oil all over the place!
You don't have to go check for the magazine, it comes to you when it's ready. It says, essentially, "Hey, I'm here...time to read me!" On the other hand, websites are not that way, with the singular exception of whichever site is set as your default page in your browser.
And this statement brings up one of the main reason I still prefer regular magazines...PORTABILITY!
How the heck am I supposed to read Salon in the john^H^H^H^Hlibrary? Sure I could take a laptop with me, but then I can just see trying to get my boss to spring for network jacks (or wireless!) in the stalls...
I ran into this very issue a couple years back when my company put a web interface onto its set of apps and reports.
I chose Rich Text Format because it was ascii-based on an available standard, easy to generate, and with the appropriate plugin or app at the client end, easily viewed, manipulated and printed.
Our clients really like this because their reports "magically" appear in their favorite word-processor where they can save it, print page ranges, etc to their heart's content. Of course, YMMV.
If you're set on HTML though, there is a little trick with stylesheets to force pagebreaks (at least with IE):
Define a STYLE with PRE.my_page {page-break-before:always;} and then use
...
tags to break into sections. A bit on the ugly side, but it works.
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Anyone else get one of those big ol' Erector sets full of nuts, bolts, screws and metal pieces?
Especially great were the sets that came with motors! Throw in some gears and pulleys and the imagination was the limit.
Another back from the 70s were the Riveton (Rivetron?) sets, a plastic sort of Erector set with rubber rivets instead of nuts & bolts.
And who could forget the classic "Girder N Panel" sets? Anyone else have those sets of little columns and girders that came with plastic window and roof panels? In the 70s there were a couple of different sets, one with special pieces for bridges and one with window/roof panels for skyscrapers. But before that there were many many different types of sets.
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/. readers hoping for to spy a bit of the 'streak'.
The organizers of the Crufts dog show have just reported that tickets for the show have sold out for the next three years...seems like especially heavy sales from
Anyone have the ph#/web site for this crufts show?!?
Well, it's obvious the British aren't involved in making this Jaguar, if only because they haven't yet figured out how to make a computer without having it leak oil all over the place!
You don't have to go check for the magazine, it comes to you when it's ready. It says, essentially, "Hey, I'm here...time to read me!" On the other hand, websites are not that way, with the singular exception of whichever site is set as your default page in your browser.
And this statement brings up one of the main reason I still prefer regular magazines...PORTABILITY!
How the heck am I supposed to read Salon in the john^H^H^H^Hlibrary? Sure I could take a laptop with me, but then I can just see trying to get my boss to spring for network jacks (or wireless!) in the stalls...
Careful, going too far past VB can cause a burning sensation when peeing and lead to a trip to the Free Clinic...
"VB"++ = VC
"VC"++ = VD