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Re: Transcript of Keynote
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 06:58:15 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Alfred Speredelozzi writes:

Tim Courtney announced preorders for Virtual Lego, the book he and Ahui are
authoring. Syngress is also offering 25% off their texts.


Isn't Syngress the evil publisher of the competing clone copy of Courtney's
book?

Nope, definitely not evil, or clone. Two projects which developed
concurrently. I had a good time with Kevin and Jon this weekend, and can't
wait to get my hands on a copy of Powertools. *but* I'm waiting till we're
finished with Virtual LEGO first :-)

I went to the site hoping to find a discounted version of Virtual Lego.
(Always looking for a bargain on something I know I am going to buy.)  But I
found "Lego Power Tools" instead. :(

I haven't had the time to get the Virtual LEGO information up on LDraw.org
yet. I'll do that hopefully tomorrow, as I recover from BricksWest. For
preorder info, you can check out the No Starch website at www.nostarch.com.

Thanks for your enthusiasm for the book :-)

-Tim



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(...) Thanks for clarifying this Tim. We've both been working on LDraw CAD related books, and helping each other through it. I can tell you that Miguel Agullo and I wrote the entire Power Tools book ourselves. I don't know how we can be a clone when (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest)

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(...) Isn't Syngress the evil publisher of the competing clone copy of Courtney's book? I went to the site hoping to find a discounted version of Virtual Lego. (Always looking for a bargain on something I know I am going to buy.) But I found "Lego (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest)

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