A quiet day
(Point of clarification: today is the quiet day. Yesterday, really not)
Yesterday was entirely dedicated to getting into London and going to Pico Con.
Imperial College is very similar to MIT, just -you know- more English (and as Tom points out, more Irish). It has focus on math/science and pretty much ignores humanities. That lack made for some fun and hilarious typos in the scavenger hunt.
This was a con mostly not for me. One track and so lots of hit/miss. Drinking is a feature - pub at lunch was our choice, but socializing between times at the the union pub at the college is clearly A Thing. Other times this would be more fun, but aside from determining that I like Blackthorn cider, that bit was ...eh. Also, only knowing p_t and Tom makes it limiting when these guys are clearly old friends and their areas of interest are radically different from mine. My regret was not actually packing the color pencils and coloring books to fill the pub time, which would have righted many boredoms.
Sadly, I didn't find the speaker bits very interesting, either. The silly games section was fun. Ask me when I see you and I'll see if I can do the explanations justice. Otherwise it will go on and on. The quiz, the last bit of the con, is held in the pub and so the moist, somewhat funky air, the noise, the crowd- it eventually did me in. Also being 7 already really time for food, dammit. However, our team (Vogon Poetry Club) really held our own- 3rd among all groups and best in our room.
Tom's friend Matt came with us for curries after. Very tasty, so now I've had my fish n chips and my curry. Excellent.
Sadly, the train schedule wasn't on our side, so we got in late.
My win of the whole day was that p_t brought Bananagrams with and we played a few rounds between things. The ongoing 100% enjoyed by all streak continues. It also allowed me to feel more involved in what was going on around me, even if we had the braniacs finish, allowing the mere mortals to carry on with their tiles after the flurry subsided. :) Some featured words I'm proud of from recent games: metropolitan and spontaneity.
Today is as Sundays anywhere should be: brunch, a nice bath with reading, and lounging about.
Because I'm out of my usual routine, I'm only catching the middle of some of the latest raft of shit that's been raining down on everyone on a global level.
I know Planned Parenthood is having some serious threat and that's somewhat straight-forward
Wiscon's current debt is causing the evil anti-union governor to take the opportunity to do bad things -yah?
People are getting shot in places with funny languages and strange names / Firesign reference -- but that bit is somewhat elusive- and inevitably I want the where did this start/executive summary and the online resources are more assuming you got the thing from 3 days ago.
If anyone feels generous and sharing, what do you think I ought really know?
Yesterday was entirely dedicated to getting into London and going to Pico Con.
Imperial College is very similar to MIT, just -you know- more English (and as Tom points out, more Irish). It has focus on math/science and pretty much ignores humanities. That lack made for some fun and hilarious typos in the scavenger hunt.
This was a con mostly not for me. One track and so lots of hit/miss. Drinking is a feature - pub at lunch was our choice, but socializing between times at the the union pub at the college is clearly A Thing. Other times this would be more fun, but aside from determining that I like Blackthorn cider, that bit was ...eh. Also, only knowing p_t and Tom makes it limiting when these guys are clearly old friends and their areas of interest are radically different from mine. My regret was not actually packing the color pencils and coloring books to fill the pub time, which would have righted many boredoms.
Sadly, I didn't find the speaker bits very interesting, either. The silly games section was fun. Ask me when I see you and I'll see if I can do the explanations justice. Otherwise it will go on and on. The quiz, the last bit of the con, is held in the pub and so the moist, somewhat funky air, the noise, the crowd- it eventually did me in. Also being 7 already really time for food, dammit. However, our team (Vogon Poetry Club) really held our own- 3rd among all groups and best in our room.
Tom's friend Matt came with us for curries after. Very tasty, so now I've had my fish n chips and my curry. Excellent.
Sadly, the train schedule wasn't on our side, so we got in late.
My win of the whole day was that p_t brought Bananagrams with and we played a few rounds between things. The ongoing 100% enjoyed by all streak continues. It also allowed me to feel more involved in what was going on around me, even if we had the braniacs finish, allowing the mere mortals to carry on with their tiles after the flurry subsided. :) Some featured words I'm proud of from recent games: metropolitan and spontaneity.
Today is as Sundays anywhere should be: brunch, a nice bath with reading, and lounging about.
Because I'm out of my usual routine, I'm only catching the middle of some of the latest raft of shit that's been raining down on everyone on a global level.
I know Planned Parenthood is having some serious threat and that's somewhat straight-forward
Wiscon's current debt is causing the evil anti-union governor to take the opportunity to do bad things -yah?
People are getting shot in places with funny languages and strange names / Firesign reference -- but that bit is somewhat elusive- and inevitably I want the where did this start/executive summary and the online resources are more assuming you got the thing from 3 days ago.
If anyone feels generous and sharing, what do you think I ought really know?