Comments on: Big news from LDraw and LEGO [April Fool's]

By: bdag

bdag — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:01:24 +0000

I’m in PDT much like your server. I didn’t assume you lived down the street from me but being just the other side of the date line would explain the confusion. It may be early Tuesday morning for you but it’s Monday afternoon for me. (Hello from the past!) Good to know for future reference. I’ll take a bunch of salt next year from Mar 30 to Apr 2, just to be safe. :D

By: gambort

gambort — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:49:21 +0000

Thanks for the apology. Graciously accepted. If there’s one way guaranteed to annoy me, it’s to forthrightly assume I live somewhere I do not.

The “posted this entry” time is the server time (Seattle time I think), but the actual time this was posted was 9am Apr 1st AEST. I prefer to post my April Fools’ jokes on my time to keep people on their toes.

By: bdag

bdag — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:41:03 +0000

Oh I understand that we’re not China with a single time zone. Maybe I was a little curt and I apologize. But there were a few other jokes that actually posted Apr 1. I just figured that in an effort to have the joke posted as early as possible that someone jumped the gun. Is the date my time or the WordPress system time?

By: gambort

gambort — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:24:46 +0000

^ This was posted on April 1st. It may not have been April 1st for you, but there’s more than one timezone on this large, round planet. If you’re going to complain about the date, make sure you’re actually correct.

By: bdag

bdag — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:06:14 +0000

Hmm… Date posted Mar 31. Didn’t this happen last year with the Star Wars chrome minifigs? Really if you’re going to be a jokester you should make sure your posting date is correct.

Otherwise slick idea for content. With the date being wrong you really had me fooled.

By: retracile

retracile — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:11:56 +0000

Well played sirs, well played.

By: Tim Courtney

Tim Courtney — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:46:32 +0000

Nice one, guys! :-)

By: JimmytheJ

JimmytheJ — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:04:38 +0000

Been through the link… $5.35 million? Ties to LU? I feel I may have been played for a fool!

By: Jean C

Jean C — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:40:49 +0000

Roffle!

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:32:23 +0000

great price. I thought this deal would have been worth 4.1 million

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:27:54 +0000

This had better not be an April fools joke;)

By: LegoBrandon

LegoBrandon — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:03:33 +0000

Could this possibly be an April Fools joke?

By: retracile

retracile — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:07:29 +0000

One of the key points will be how TLG handles the licensing. If they restrict commercial use like they do with LDD, the parts library will cease to be Open Source by definition, and that will be very unfortunate. I hope they will go the other way instead, and release LDD as Open Source software.

I’ll be anxiously waiting for further details on the deal…

By: lukaswinklerprins

lukaswinklerprins — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:33:08 +0000

Wow. I hope this pans out well. Quite an opening up of LEGO if they truly maintain LDraw’s open nature…