Mancunicon

[kalypso_v]

It's a fortnight since Mancunicon so if I'm ever to get anything down about it I'd better do it now. But I haven't a lot of time, so I'm not sure that I'll manage much more than brief comments on the things I remembered to photograph.

Of course, the big thing about Mancunicon was that it was here in Manchester, and as it was four weeks after we'd

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[jhall1]

Excellent photos.

because on Thursday I went off to serve my true master, the Head of Ops, cobrabay.

Just so long as he didn't say "I am the Master, and you will obey me".

[kalypso_v]

He's a very mild-mastered regeneration, and on the whole he left us to get on with it...

[anonymous]

Any special reason why bees? (They have Corpuscular overtones, of course, but I don't suppose that's what they had in mind.)

Hermes.

[kalypso_v]

Yes, they adapted it from Manchester's current favourite symbol, which is drawn from one of the mosaic floors in the Town Hall:

[vjezkova]

Wow! This sound like a magnificent con in Manchester! Congratulations on your great job you did!
I liked the pictures and the atmosphere of the event, thank you for sharing!

[kalypso_v]

I'm afraid I haven't said very much about the con programme, but then I very rarely get round to the con programme, and when I do I keep falling asleep. But it's working on Ops that I enjoy best.

[astrogirl2]

Ooh, a poster/display about ALMA! That's ours, you know. :)

[kalypso_v]

Ah, so the Large Millimetres are yours! I did wonder when they mentioned New Mexico. They also had a model of a whole field of telescopes (an array, presumably). And they gave me a beermat with a nice picture of a galaxy on it.

[astrogirl2]

The actual array is in Chile, but it's operated by the same organization.

[stevie_carroll]

It was a fine con indeed, and I greatly appreciated staying with you on the Sunday night because I got to drink multiple pints of beer (very rare for me these days).

[kalypso_v]

It was very good to see you, and I hope the ponies were happy to have you back!