Thursday, June 14, 2007

Tony Lockwood Makes Like a Hobbit, Puts on Gold Ring and Vanishes

OK, I am stretching the truth with that headline because he is not literally disappearing, but yesterday the CAD grapevine was abuzz. I had calls and text messages coming in on my Blackberry while I was driving in to work. "Tony Lockwood has quit Desktop Engineering" came in from multiple sources. Everyone was worried. Had there been a falling out? Is this bad news for that mainstay of the industry – Desktop Engineering Magazine?

Tony Lockwood is not really a hobbit,
he just plays one on this blog. 


It turns out that, no, this is not the case. Lockwood has been in his position as editor-in-chief, publisher and similar roles at DE for about 15 years. And has reached a point where he feels the need, and has the resources, to simply stop. Desktop Engineering, while missing the effect of Tony's industry knowledge and expertise, has had time to prepare and will continue in its central industry role.

"We have a whole load of new, and interesting, ventures at Desktop, many of which I have headed," said Lockwood in a call today. "These activities are interesting, have great potential and are fun to do. I simply have no 'interesting and fun' left to contribute."

Ever the planner, Lockwood says that he has now precisely mapped out a plan to be 'house-husband' and has a tightly-formed schedule of family clothes washing activities in and around watching 'The View', 'General Hospital' and 'The Young and the Restless' – at least until he feels like turning his laptop back on. He figures that when he finally gets bored enough to be watching C-SPAN, he will know that he has recovered enough to consider what to do next professionally.

Tony is by no means an outcast from Desktop Engineering, or out of the industry, except for the fact that while everyone else is running around worrying about non-history-based modeling, he will be sitting on his recliner digesting the wisdom of Dr. Phil.

Lucky Bloke.

 

Tony your sartorial eye and keen wit will be missed. (read his latest diatribe here: http://www.deskeng.com/Departments/Diatribes/Good-to-Grate-200705291911.html)

Posted by The 3D Team at 15:02:45 | Permanent Link | Comments (2) |
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1 - Without Mr. Lockwood there it will never be the same but I can understand easily how much that position must take out of a person. Maybe after recharging himself at home for awhile he will do something in which we can all get a kick out of his way of writing. I know I'll miss his editorials. Good-bye for awhile "Pal".

Richard Williams
Mohave Desert Writer for MCAD reviews. (Comment this)

Written by: Anonymous at 2007/06/15 - 15:38:19
2 - It's a sad day for readers everywhere, but the important point is it sounds like our 'Pal' has real guts to make a big change. I salute him for that and hope we'll be able to work again together in the future.
Best,
Cyrus Mavalwala
www.advantiscomm.com (Comment this)

Written by: Anonymous at 2007/06/15 - 17:30:24
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