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  • Indianapolis Zoo

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    It was a scorchingly hot day, and I went to the zoo. Where one or two of the animals seemed to have melted. There were some things I didn’t photograph, such as the shark-petting tank, where I was too distracted by seeing them swimming around right in front of me to take a picture. I…

  • Even More Gen Con, Even Less Coherent

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    Got into Indianapolis on the Tuesday afternoon, and, of course, had to go and take a look around, get situated, that sort of thing. Checking out the view of White River State Park from my hotel room. (28th floor, so there’s a lot of view) Wandering through the ICC. This is absolutely the least crowded this…

  • Let’s Talk About Swag, Maybe?

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    I know, not my best work on the title. I blame the Blueberry Crumble coffee for throwing me off. No, I’m not kidding; I’m at Cafe Patachou, and they have a Blueberry Crumble coffee which does have solid notes of what I imagine such a thing would taste like. I’m in the VIG programme, which…

  • Gen Con 2016

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    This is one of those extended posts, where I try to cover a bunch of stuff in one post. It’s kind of long, so you may want a drink. Maybe a sandwich. It’s OK, I’ll wait until you’re back. We’re set? OK, here goes; Event Registration Event registration happened while I was in Nelson, or…

  • Chicago, Briefly, With Squirrels

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    The flight, or flights, to Chicago were … uneventful. Getting to Gatwick was easy, the station even had coloured lines on the floor so you could follow them to the correct location, which in my case was a machine which would sell me the ticket I needed. The Gatwick express was comfy, got one of…

  • London! Again!

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    Post-Edinburgh, I caught the Caldonian Sleeper back to London, cunningly using the sleeping time as traveling time, and saving a night of accommodation cost, because I’m clever. Well, a little bit clever; I was still a bit exhausted from sleeping 8 hours in a reclining train seat, but I had an empty next to me,…

  • Close-ing The Entries On Edinburgh

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    Yes, I did go for a ‘close’ pun. I Regret Nothing! Old Edinburgh has closes or wynds, narrow alleys running off the Royal Mile (and a few other roads) to provide access to the buildings behind the frontage, the roads behind those, and so on. Basically, a mechanism to increase the accessible surface of the building without…

  • Edinburgh – Squirrels, Parks, Barbeque, and Murder

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    Edinburgh has squirrels; I feel that it’s important that you know this. This one was helpful enough to pose dynamically on a tree for maximum photogenicness & drama, and had a nice eye for appropriate backlighting. It’s really refreshing to see such dedication to the tourist experience.   Squirrel in Grass (pixel on memory chip,…

  • Cramond Island

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    I was getting steadily better, the cough having … well, ‘vanished’ is the wrong word. ‘Diminished’ doesn’t really cut it either. Let’s say that the bouts of horrifying coughing which left my sides hurting and did odd things to my voice were less frequent? Anyway, we caught a bus out to Cramond Island, or more…

  • π Approximation Day

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    I’m counting a thing that happened the night before as happening on π Approximation Day, because of time zones. Or something. Tamsin had asked about how the Gen Con events registration system worked, so we had a play with it, using the keyword “Pirate”, because why not? This came up; It would have been morally wrong…