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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2006-02-18 09:38 pm

Picocon

I went to Picocon. It was fun and I'm glad I went. The fish duel was unexpected... Caught up with lots of friends, did silly things to gain points for my team (including making a phylactery), acquired two more books to read, did some reading on the train, listened to two very interesting talks, chatted [livejournal.com profile] orbital_2008 and did more talking to friends.

Would write a fuller report, but I'm trying to be good and give the wrists a rest and hope they'll be good enough for me to go and cut rhododendron tomorrow.
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[personal profile] kerravonsen 2006-02-19 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
You made a phylactery?! Watch me boggling.

No wonder mundanes think that fans are insane. 8-)
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[identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com 2006-02-19 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Written in Urdu (courtesy of another fan) as I couldn't find anyone who knew Hebrew, and bound on with a silk scarf.

The House competition was basically a long list of things that you scored points if you could find them. Some, were dead easy, like an apple. Some, like Terry Pratchett, were probably impossible.

Some, were seemingly impossible, but achievable with a lot of creatitivity/imagination. (General knowledge didn't hurt either)

Although I realised when I got home that I'd actually unintentionally cheated on another one as I'd confused Shan Yu and Shen Yeng.

[identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
I was glad to contribute my meagre Urdu skills, and I'm hoping to find out what the final score was :-)
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[identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com 2006-02-21 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
I think Enterprise won in the end. They must have done something really impressive as their score took a sudden massive jump.

I still had enormous fun though. With help from you and others, I managed about 800 points for Serenity and had a ball.