Picocon31

[hirez]

... Was rather good fun. Apparently you can get away with all sorts of mischief at ic.ac.uk (and traditional bangpath variations thereof) by striding about purposefully and declaring that 'Ben said it was OK.' In fact, the entire org team were lovely. Especially the poor sods volunteered to wave a mag-card at the slidey doors in the aeronautics building whenever someone obviously fandom-related hove into view.

(Will the next one be numbered 0x20 ?)

Guests excellent, beer excellent, buying stuff from the SFnal-destinations-as-railway-posters chap excellent. Only made a mild idiot of self when speaking to SPinborough. Also accused of being a crypto geek, which is a filthy lie.

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

I think ic.ac.uk are trying to be imperial.ac.uk officially now. It's a shame really because ic.ac.uk sounds like Popeye if you say it right.

[maluse.livejournal.com]

Sadly they are, but at least they let us ex-dept of computing types keep our non-standard email addresses so I get to be "asher@imperial".

[steer.livejournal.com]

Love this Lankhmar poster: http://www.apillustration.co.uk/shop/fantastic-travel-destinations/1-lankhmar/

I'm a big fan of Leiber so I'm happy to find that Lankmar looks a lot like my old home of York.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Would say I wish I'd known about it, but I was in London for other (non-optional) reasons on Saturday and wouldn't have been able to make it anyway.