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  • Jet Lag Induced Culinary Adventures

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    The view from my room is pretty damn good; Slept with the curtains open, partially to wake up with the dawn to force some timezone adaption, but also because, from the 30th, floor, it’s quite a view. There was a triathlon going on out there, though they were swimming in the canal, not the river.…

  • When last we saw our hero,

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    … He was sitting on his ass in the Metropolitan Lounge at Chicago Union Station, enjoying complimentary beverages & snacks. Eventually the train was called, and so we all trooped down to the boarding hall, where we stood around being occasionally required to move because they needed to get a motorized cart thingy through, because…

  • Posting from Union Station, in the Metropolitan Lounge, of course

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    Right, well, that was a journey. Flight from Heathrow to Dublin was delayed by almost an hour by the end of things. Arrival in Dublin for some reason involved getting a bus to make it to connecting flights, so said bus was full of many irritated folks wondering whether they’d miss their next flight. I…

  • Up To Three “Well That’s Not Good” Situations So Far, And I’m Still In England

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    First was the strike action, announced on Wednesday, affecting my flight. That eventually got cancelled. Next was my phone declining, or at least being difficult about, taking a charge. Annoying, but I’ve got my old NZ phone with me, which is very slow, but does still function for communication. Which is how I found out…

  • Plans For An Eventful Gen Con

    Plans For An Eventful Gen Con

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    For some reason, possibly related to having too much free time, I decided to do a roundup of this year’s Gen Con plan; Specifically, the games.

  • Nearly Two Weeks In At The Winchester

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    The floors got a bunch clearer once I found the recycling bin corral; There were plenty of references to it, and to needing a proximity token to get access, but nothing saying where it is. Eventually found it by looking for common access doors with a prox reader. As can possibly be seen above, there…

  • Well, That Went Better Than Expected

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    I’m now moved in at the new place ( provisionally The Winchester, but it’s still being workshopped, and the focus groups are still reviewing it ) and moved out of the old one. The cats are going to be very confused; Nymphadora was obviously sulking at … Well, everyone … as I left, so she’s…

  • A Flat Must Have A Name

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    So far, the best I’ve got is “The Winchester”, for the Shaun Of The Dead reference. Backing up slightly; After almost two years living in a rented room in a place with cats who I’m sure you’re all sick of hearing about, I’m moving to a ( rented ) place of my own, closer to…

  • London Tube Map, 2018

    London Tube Map, 2018

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    Turns out that, while an interesting effect, the ‘coloured-in map’ look is a bit tricky to do, at least if you’re me & you’re using raster data. Probably easier if I was using some sort of vector layer approach, so maybe that’s a thing to look at? ( I’m supposed to be doing some species of online mapping thing for work purposes next year anyway, … ) Also, both the Northern line & Jubilee…

  • Neue Slowenische Kunst

    Neue Slowenische Kunst

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    If I’m going to be subjected to Rammstein & Laibach numbers as part of my mental earworm soundtrack, I’m damn well going to incorporate references to it in the posts. Most of the Dev Summit is, I suspect, of no real interest to y’all, so I’ll skip it. Plus, I have to do a presentation…