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[jonthegeologist] and I may be in That London the
weekend of 23/24 February. We're busy on the
Saturday evening but could possibly do the Sat
afternoon or Sun lunch |
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I'll see if I can get off normal weekend domestic duties.
Need a good excuse though.
Wetlands Centre? |
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A Saturday afternoon sounds OK to me. |
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Yeah but it's never gonna fscking happen for me, i know it! |
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I had almost forgotten about this. |
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Seeing as I am now rolling in money, I shall gladly buy at least one round. If it's still happening. |
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It's a shame these only seem to happen on the rare weekends that I'm otherwise engaged. Harumph. |
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//rare weekends that I'm otherwise engaged// |
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I'm sure your bride-to-be will understand, and if she
doesn't you shouldn't marry her anyway. |
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work commitments are always difficult - sort it out amongst yourselves and I'll try to attend. |
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Howcome you only do this when I'm out of the country? |
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So, Friday the 13th of June, The Speaker, SW1 ? |
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Full moon too! Doesn't happen all that often. I'd Skype
if anyone would like to speak, no camera, or I could
phone call in. |
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Didn't there use to be a Skype account for this sort
of thing? If there will be Skype, count me in. |
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Hmm, Skype...sounds good to me, have to be on Sunday as I need to lift one of the work laptops, mine is too old to run skype... |
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//Ian & Dr B & St3f// don't forget Wagster, Ben Frost, Fishrat and DrCurry.....(plus many more) |
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So... will anyone be there on the 13th with a skypeable device, and are they willing to give out a skype name to connect to? |
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To get the ball rolling, I can be skyped on [redacted: XXXXXXXX dot X dot X dot XXXXXXXXX ]. |
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{sits back and waits for crickets to chirp} |
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I have to get on my laptop to figure out how to Skype
me. Get back to you. |
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Sounds good to me. As I am currently a man of (impoverished) leisure, and can make a day of it up in the Smoke, I'll set the timetable shall I? I'll be in the Speaker (which looks to be about a half a mile walk from Victoria station) from 6:30ish whether anyone else attends or not. So that's that sorted. Next please! |
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Crikey! that's 1:30am Perth time. I was going to join
Pertinax with the attend by Skype idea but I'm all
tucked in by then. Maaaybeee, seeing its not a
school night and all. Have fun regardless. |
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Oh wait, I'll be at work. What am I thinking? Okay, I'll
call out sick. Any reason to call out sick is a good
reason. Plus that day sounds double jinxed. I'll stay at
home under the blankets and pop out just to use
laptop and feed Frisco. |
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6ish sounds great to me! Though I suppose it's
reasonable to leave the floor open to anyone
wishing to arrive earlier. |
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Actually, z_t, the thought occurs that there's likely to be a lot of football coverage in pubs starting from Thursday onwards. I don't want to be a party pooper but this might not be a very opportune time for a half-con. What do you think? |
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[DrB] there are three games on that night; Mexico v
Cameroon [17:00], Spain v Netherlands [20:00] and
Chile v Australia at [23:00] though the actual sense
and logic of world-cup-ness escapes me so I'm not
entirely sure what to glean from that, other than that
I'm not aware of any great Mexican or Cameroonian
populations in the Victoria Station surrounds (and the
same goes for Spaniard, Dutch, Chilean or Australians
- though this could reflect my ignorance rather than
be anything to go by) but I'll roll along - there's
nothing to stop us having another go in say, September
(or some other opportune month) |
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Having said that - I think it'll be ok, and if it's
not, we can sojourn accordingly. |
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My vote goes with the honorable zen-tom, but hope
the dapper DrBob will rethink and join in despite the
obstacles. We are bakers, we are strong. We are
indestructible. We are outright insane. |
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The pub in question (The Speaker) has no televisions, no games machines and no music. |
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Hmm, what do they have? I hope they have drink. |
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Just beer and seating
(This reminds me that another London pub, where we met for a previous HalfCon (which [jutta] came to), had similar views on television, games and music, but would also chuck people out for using mobile phones in the pub) |
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Cool. Sounds good to me. See you there! |
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" (The Speaker) has no televisions, no games machines and no music " |
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Sweet. I was fantasizing about that sort of watering hole yesterday. They're becoming more difficult to find. |
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And the pub we went to before, where the landlord chucks
you out if you use a
mobile phone is The Nag's Head in Kinnerton Street in
Knightsbridge. |
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I'll have to quit on you all - have to get up earlier than anticipated the morning after. :-( |
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Just pretend that I turned up, listened and said friendly things. |
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[bigsleep] No that's The Nag's Head. You'll be fine with a laptop in The Speaker. Last time we were there, [Ian T/Rods Tiger] had an iPad with him.
I'm afraid I won't be able to join you, but like [pertinax], you can reconstruct my personality through reading all my Halfbakery ideas, and then just imagine I'm there. |
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I shall be heading there shortly. |
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Those who decide to quit at the last moment shall miss out on the possibility of me buying them alcohol. |
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PS I don't have any skype-enabled mobile equipment so I hope someone else can take the responsibility for telecommunications setup. |
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I'm late, but inbound - eta around 7ish |
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Buggar! Couldn't someone have sent a text? |
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Home again, home again, hippety hop.
Halfcon complete. Tags: Cthulhu, Roleplaying, Paranoia, Stereo sound, Time Travel, Dinner party guests (rather depressingly, nobody chose any of the people that they were in the pub with at the time), Surround sound, Art of Noise, Free will, Sewing machines, Motorola 68000, Tesla, Edison, Luck, Unemployment, Hammond organ. We never did receive an explanation from you of how a joystick works did we Mr Tindale? |
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Great to see you all - maybe another one soon. Oblig
photo posted above, links. |
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Who's wearing the beard? Is that you DrBob? |
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Nah, that's mitxela. I was gone by then; had a train to catch. It's alright for these Londoner's to hang around in the pub until kicking out time but us country folk have to do travelling into the wee small hours. |
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I was gonna say, you have changed. Lighter color hair,
and just all around different than I recall. You should
have stayed for the photo though... |
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