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May 2017
In May I attended OpenTech, ran a scavenger hunt, finished Portal (only ten years behind the curve there), and listened to part of a 1000-year-long performance.
Opentech
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squirmelia at OpenTech, which is a conference held at UCL in London about technology. I've been several times before and it's always been enjoyable. While I was here, Emily, Pete, Matt, and Tim were running around elswhere on a...
I met up with
squirmelia at OpenTech, which is a conference held at UCL in London about technology. I've been several times before and it's always been enjoyable. While I was here, Emily, Pete, Matt, and Tim were running around elswhere on a...London Scavenger Hunt
I think I originally promised this for Emily's birthday and spent some of last month going around and figuring out interesting places to visit and clues for finding them.
I came up with seven locations and two different routes, and packaged up those and some envelopes with hints in inside two larger envelopes. For the curious, here are the bits for that in a google doc. Emily and Pete chose one pack at random, and Tim and Matt took the other.
The hunt worked reasonably well with me co-ordinating clues and confirmations via SMS between talks at OpenTech, though unfortunately Tim and Matt's pack had a clue that was a little too vague for the direction they were going in, and they ended up on the wrong side of the Thames for one location. But in the end they all found the man in the moon.
I think I originally promised this for Emily's birthday and spent some of last month going around and figuring out interesting places to visit and clues for finding them.
I came up with seven locations and two different routes, and packaged up those and some envelopes with hints in inside two larger envelopes. For the curious, here are the bits for that in a google doc. Emily and Pete chose one pack at random, and Tim and Matt took the other.
The hunt worked reasonably well with me co-ordinating clues and confirmations via SMS between talks at OpenTech, though unfortunately Tim and Matt's pack had a clue that was a little too vague for the direction they were going in, and they ended up on the wrong side of the Thames for one location. But in the end they all found the man in the moon.
Knightmare Live
I went to see Knightmare Live, a comedy remixing of the 80s/90s children's TV programme Knightmare, showing at the Udderbelly on Southbank. It was good, but like the other thing I've seen at the Udderbelly, relied a little too much on their random audience participants being funny, which is a bit of a weak link.
I went to see Knightmare Live, a comedy remixing of the 80s/90s children's TV programme Knightmare, showing at the Udderbelly on Southbank. It was good, but like the other thing I've seen at the Udderbelly, relied a little too much on their random audience participants being funny, which is a bit of a weak link.
Longplayer (is long)
We also went to see a few things around the Trinity Buoy Wharf in, which was a strangely quiet place for somewhere so deep in Greater London.
One of the things there was London's only lighthouse, inside which was playing Longplayer, an algorithmically-generated 1000-year composition.
While the composition can be played on Tibetan singing bowls and gongs, currently performing was a 2000-era Apple iMac, which I imagine had been going more-or-less continuously since the performance started in 2000. Pretty neat!
We also went to see a few things around the Trinity Buoy Wharf in, which was a strangely quiet place for somewhere so deep in Greater London.
One of the things there was London's only lighthouse, inside which was playing Longplayer, an algorithmically-generated 1000-year composition.
While the composition can be played on Tibetan singing bowls and gongs, currently performing was a 2000-era Apple iMac, which I imagine had been going more-or-less continuously since the performance started in 2000. Pretty neat!