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Episode 174
(Jan. 23, 2002)

 What's this heap of stuff?        You, my friend, are looking at my
Your computer exploded again?      newest invention. It's USB LEGO!
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      OK... What's            Computer components from which you can
     that, exactly?           build a computer as easily as putting
             `,,,             ,  two blocks of LEGO together. Here,
              '..           OO    let me show you what I mean...
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                             Here we go.. I'm connecting a processor,
              ,,,            ,  a small screen, and this block that's
              '..          OO     hardwired to print "Hello World"
              .||.     _.`,o\\      on any available display...
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  OK, cool... But..             Aw crap. One of these must be one of
  It's not working.           the regular LEGO blocks I added to make
              `,,,             ,  the heap look more impressive.
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