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Re: NALUG takes 1st place at GEmTS 2002
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.ca.nalug
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Date:
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Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:11:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steve Chapple writes:
> Highlights: About 9000 people toured the various layouts; Kevin and
> his lift bridge featured in our local paper (local population ~1 million);
> After years of taking second place at shows we finally got a first place
> finish. One factor which we didn't consider much before - other clubs
> have layouts that don't really change from year to year while ours is not
> only bigger/better than most of them, but almost entirely new each year.
> There was great details inside buildings - many times not seen (or even
> possible to see) including the first? working minifig escalator underneath
> the domed shopping mall.
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> Here http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=26099 is a link
> to some photos. My camera is quite poor by today's standards - many
> more/bigger/higher-res. pictures (and further details) to follow...
Steve has a good overview of James Jessiman Memorial Park here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=251247
and Adam has some closer shots here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=251469
and the next couple pics in sequence. They're dark, though - the venue has
horrible lighting.
What nobody seems to have caught (and I didn't think to catch at all) is the
sign that was in front of JJMP, text as follows:
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James Jessiman Memorial Park
Who Was James Jessiman?
James Jessiman (1971-1997) was a LEGO fan and a prominent member of the
online community of fans before his untimely death in 1997. He wrote LDraw,
a CAD program for generating computer images of LEGO parts, and created a
uniform code for describing these parts called the LDraw file format. He
was one of the pioneers and founding fathers in what is now a huge community
of "virtual builders". If you see a computer-generated picture of someone's
LEGO project, you're seeing James Jessiman's contribution to the LEGO community.
Find out more about James Jessiman and the community he helped to found at
http://www.ldraw.org/
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NALUG's layout always has a JJMP, but this is the first year it's had
signage explaining who James was to the crowd.
thanks,
James
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