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jonty, 4 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

It took someone mentioning how delightfully weird @emf has become for me to see it.

If you took the giant potato home you were gifted a real potato. The fictional village of Bodgeham-on-Wye had a mass campaign to find their cryptid. Someone DJ'd using a pig.

My people. #emfcamp

jonty, 6 days ago to random

If you are the person who abandoned a tent full of crap at EMF: We are going to find you.

You have enraged a group of people who enjoy puzzles and suddenly have a lot of free time.

Run.

jonty, 7 days ago to random

Reading the feedback is always hard, but this year that's because its all so lovely I keep getting emotional.

jonty, 8 days ago to random

Well, that went a lot better than expected.

jonty, 10 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to random

To be clear, when we said "leave your unwanted junk in the swap shop" we did not mean radioactive material #emfcamp

jonty, 10 days ago to random

Absolutely sure we are the festival with the highest number of attendees who packed a geiger counter though, so it's fine.

Yes I packed my geiger counter. #emfcamp

jonty, 12 days ago to random

As ever, things were going relatively well until people showed up

jonty, 13 days ago to random

Absolutely delighted by the new @emf volunteer kitchen logo

jonty, 14 days ago to random

Every hour or so more people arrive, grab high-vis, and ask for things to do. There are hundreds of people frantically working because we decided it might be nice to go camping.

As ever, it feels absurd.

jonty, 16 days ago to random

A rough 48hrs, but some of the absolute nonsense people have built for @emf is cheering me up.

My favourite so far? A compiler you fax code to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-25-pRhpY

jonty, 17 days ago to random

Well, that was the worst day I have had in months. Please send animal gifs.

jonty, 18 days ago to random

Our environmental data feeds from @emf are now live, this is the spider forecast for next weekend

jonty, 19 days ago to random

Turned my desk lamp off because the sun came up again.

jonty, 20 days ago to random

Whoever is absolutely blasting "Things Can Only Get Better" outside Number 10 while Sunak tries to announce a general election deserves an award

jonty, 21 days ago to random

Everyone: Jonty it is too late to be organising more absolute nonsense.

Me: I REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT

jonty, 21 days ago to random

So @jamesbridle granted my wish and made a fediverse bot that posts the latest images from the Mars Curiosity Rover.

It is very appropriately hosted on botsin.space: https://botsin.space/@marslandscapes

jonty, 21 days ago to random

@emf build-up team arrived on site today. Day -8.

I am still in my office at home talking to suppliers about tents. Doesn't seem real.

jonty, 24 days ago to random

Wales has launched their own "metaverse" and it is indistinguishable from Second Life circa 2006.

There is a big dragon. There are small dragons. You can ride a cable car. I have met exactly one other player.

https://visitwales.com/metaverse

jonty, 26 days ago to random

My day was completely trashed by a mechanical computer emergency

jonty, 27 days ago to random

If you play music that involves electronic instruments in any way, you should really sign up for EMOM at @emf. Its really fun!

https://social.emfcamp.org/@emf/statuses/01HY0KFVF0911G81RQ1J1MW830

jonty, 28 days ago to random

I can say with confidence that "an attendee building a service on our internal phone network that validates juggling notation inputted over DMTF" is not the most niche thing at the event, but it comes close.

https://mstdn.social/@lpbkdotnet/112438381844530784

jonty, 29 days ago to random

Nonsense show idea: QVC Karaoke.

Players have three minutes to sell whatever they're handed without cracking up. Highest score determined by number of audience "orders" placed.

jonty, 30 days ago to random

Exactly 12 years ago I made a terrible mistake

https://social.emfcamp.org/@emf/statuses/01HXRZ1PRXCPNPDSFQSCMED9TB

jonty, 1 month ago to random

I hope this email finds you. The email knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The email delivery subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the email from a server where it is to a server where it isn't, and arriving at a server where it wasn't, it now is.

jonty, 1 month ago to random

We have now completed the ceremonial "oh no the EMF scheduler is broken / oh no the scheduler is doing exactly the right thing and we gave it bad data" half-day debugging session