@red @moraghickman story of my life there, which is how I’ve ended up working in seven different industries (not counting the teenage retail/warehouse jobs)
@thechaoszone @jonty drop me a message in a few weeks, I really want to get more web people onboarded and preferably attached to specific teams.
Almost time to stop my biannual holiday where we cosplay as construction workers (with a brief interruption when a bunch of people rudely invade our peaceful camp site) and it’s really quite beautiful. Down to 30 or so people on site now who’ve spent anything up to three weeks working together to do a crazy thing, the power is gone, and we’re all sat round a single battery powered bulb.
@CatherineFlick I can’t wait for the falling asleep anytime I sit down bit.
@sophie there was folk on Stage D yesterday, but I do somewhat agree when walking round the site, and I love a bit of EDM.
OH at #EMFCamp: “What I’ve not seen is a ride on Henry Hoover”
“I have, did you not see the Henry Hoover tent?”
Anywhere else everyone would have immediately called bullshit but we spent a few minutes debating and were then shown photographic evidence.
My watch just triggered its loudness warning at applause for someone finishing Tetris Effect.
I’m currently standing at the back giggling to myself at how utterly ridiculous this is #EMFCamp
Not bad for a thing that came out of someone on the Discord going “you know what would be cool, a club where some mad lads play Tetris Effect” and thinking that I might just know a place mad enough to let me do just that. #EMFCamp
Achievement unlocked: Rez-urected
Run Rex on a festival stage.
It’s not quite come off as I’d hoped (but lighting will hopefully work for Sektori later) but fuck me, @tef is currently playing Rez on a stage, and there are people coming in and out to watch. Tetris Effect in a bit, followed by me butchering Sektori, and then I’m just going to do pass the pad until people stop showing up.
#EMFCamp Arcade workshop, now until late.
Today in leaving it to the last minute news: Music based video games with lighting and sound system starts in 40 minutes. The lighting is not yet set up, and I'm not sure this computer is pushing audio to the mixer yet. Some code will be required.
@jarkman scratch that, a more competent passer by has already fixed it.
@jarkman WoT is by the Arcade seeming unwell, possibly a lose cable but brief poking inside merely revealed it appears to use wires.
@stephen That's ok. I packed 17 Raspberry Pis to keep everyone going. (I think they've all been handed out now)
Send a message asking if they could be posted to me. Was reminded my son arrives by train tomorrow and it might be easier to just put them in his bag.
Left my meds at home by accident but I suspect I'm going to be sufficiently stimulated for the next few days. I've cracked open my first Club Mate of the event to make sure.
Just realised the station code for Ledbury is very appropriately LED.
Posh Englishmen and reserved train seating are a plague. A man in a blazer and suit trousers was very upset at not getting his reserved seat for the 20 minute hop from Reading to Oxford on account of the entire train being cancelled and everyone being loaded onto the already full train after.
His wife had clearly had enough of his bullshit approximately fifteen years ago.
As is traditional I’m in a vestibule on the Reading to Ledbury train waiting for it to empty out at Oxford rather than fighting my way through and braining everyone with things dangling from my backpack.
A Deutsche Bahn train just went through the station. Double checking I’m on my way to the correct hacker camp and didn’t accidentally get a taxi to Germany.
I am on my way to #EMFCamp via the Royal Mail depot, where I will be dumping two large crates they were meant to pick up yesterday. Not entirely sure why I didn’t think of just throwing them in the back of a taxi yesterday.
Proper Christmas Eve vibes here now, with a slight tinge of “shit, I didn’t buy any presents” because of the crate situation, but mostly excited and unable to really settle down to anything. #EMFCamp