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Lego Simpsons Monorail

2015-09-14

With the somewhat iconic status of both the Lego monorail among Lego fans and the Simpsons monorail among Simpsons fans (and the current monorail event in the Tapped Out game), I thought I build one:

Simpsons Monorail 1

Simpsons Monorail 3

For comparison, the looks of the Simpsons monorail (show and game):

Simpsons Monorails from show and game

I also attempted a rough recreation of the game’s splash screen:

Simpsons Monorail Finger

As usual, see 1000steine.de (German), Eurobricks (English) and the Flickr album for more.

Thunderbird: No automatic mail receiption with deactivated Lightning and after hibernation?

2015-08-24

Since its last major release, the mail program Thunderbird comes bundled with the calendar and task add-on Lightning. Which I ignored at first, then recently disabled. Then I noticed that Thunderbird didn’t check for new mails from my accounts (all POP3) every X minutes, even though nothing was changed in those options. A manual check for new mails worked fine.

At first, I didn’t connect this to disabling Lightning, but apparently that was the cause since after reactivating it, the periodic mail download works again.

I couldn’t find a hint about this connection on the net, so maybe this post helps someone now who encounters the same problem…

Update: After Windows hibernation over night, it again won’t work. Grmbl. What could that be…? At least after a Thunderbird restart, it works anyway (which didn’t help with Lightning disabled)…

Update 5.10.: Version 38.3.0 is said to fix the hibernation issue. Let’s hope that’s true.