Chris Dee, Long time Part Library Admin, is stepping down

[Willy Tschager]

Well wishing or stories are highly encouraged.

I remember exactly the first time I got in touch with Chris. It's one of those old stories. One of those which usually start with "Unce upon a time..."

Once upon a time the community wasn't split into a billion newsgroups, LUGs and sites. We were all at Lugnet.com and there was no PT. People just posted their code and asked for comments. Chris was apparently in full swing making parts with the one and only pattern that was and still is worth authoring: THE CLASSIC SPACE LOGO.

Chris asked if the one he just authored was the last one missing in the series: https://news.lugnet.com/cad/dat/parts/?n=2311

It wasn't, but my English back then wasn't yet suitable for the forum (it still isn't but who cares) so I dropped him an email, telling that there actually was missing one. He promptly authored it and I even got credit: https://news.lugnet.com/cad/dat/parts/?n=2691

As you might know THE CLASSIC SPACE LOGO is a delicate thing and apparently I wasn't satisfied with his version so I made a hires once my authoring skills as well as my English were fit for LDraw: https://news.lugnet.com/cad/dat/parts/?n=3983

But that's a totally different story.

Thanks for bearing with me Chris. For all the times I flooded you with PT requests - and I swear the date I put in the header is just for me. Seriously it's not testing how quick you reply but not getting lost of what has been done and what still needs to be.

w.