photos from VCF UK etc

On 21/06/10 10:44, Andy Holt wrote: It was double-booked with Tony Sale's Colossus Rebuild talk... I went for the Colossus talk because I thought I'd have to be back on the M1 for 4PM (and would thus miss the 'second showing'), and as it turned out Mum wanted to stay longer to look round the museum. It would have been nice if the pamphlet had included a brief biog of the speakers and what they'd be talking about. I'm terrible with names; it took a Google search to remind me who David Ahl was, but if you'd said "editor, Creative Computing magazine"... well. Half of the talks were listed as "In the museum" or "In the mansion"... OK, that says which building they're in, but which room in that building? Ugh. The "Enigma Cinema" wasn't even on the map -- we didn't notice that until we were walking out the gates at 5PM. The leaflet also explained that there would be demonstrations of the Bombe (Enigma key-cracker) machine "in B-block". We were there six hours and didn't manage to find B-block... But as I've said previously -- it was a great show. Nice turnout, no doubt I bumped into a few other classiccmp'ers, but only John Honniball unmasked me... evidently my disguise was too good! :) There were PERQs? Where?! My friend's got one of those... a little too geeky for my taste. Though that said I do have these: "Stand back! I know regular expressions!" (XKCD) "sudo make me a sandwich" (XKCD) "dreaming of androids" (complete with a picture of an electric sheep) "Nikitak Dance" -- a six-legged, white-furred alien critter dancing. <http://www.inhuman-comic.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=2> if you're interested. Only readers of the comic are likely to get the joke, and even then it's really subtle. I go for subtlety... sometimes too subtle :) Got a picture? The Great Oracle (er... Google) doesn't seem to want to play... -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/