After Brian and Kerry’s gig, Inf and I travelled to Oxford, where we would stay the night and attend the conference in the morning. When we arrived at our hotel, a couple of ‘Zooites’ where still up and about in the hotel bar. I jumped out of the car and knocked on the window. The (24 hour open) bar was ours, so it was very hard to go to bed. With this post I’ll share a few photos of the stuff we’ve been up to before the actual Zoo Conf.
Which involved changing clothes in the bar. In my defence, it was just us and I had left Dwingeloo with a mosquito bite the size of an extra boob on my leg (I’m allergic to those little suckers). Anyway, Annie had some magic potion to put on it and I didn’t mind showing my PJs. So there you have it. The next morning we found out we were all pretty much neighbours, as us Zoo people had kind of occupied the hotel. We had breakfast and headed for the place that started it all…
The Royal Oak. Where back in 2007 Chris Lintott and Kevin Schawinski came up with the idea of Galaxy Zoo, which was how we all got to know each other in the first place. New guy Jon – or in short ‘New Jon’ – had made us all badges, which we are proudly showing in these pictures. In the first one it’s me with Rona and Julianne. The one after that shows from left to right: Christine, (New) Jon, Todd, Graham and Els. And Geoff and Jules are behind us in the following picture.
By the way, it’s worth noting that we beat Geoff to the pub. Trust me, this is quite an achievement. We also solved the owner of the t-shirt mystery that day. The t-shirt that was left in my place after my birthday and couldn’t be from Els as she was sure she didn’t stay with me that evening, even though (she noted) Belgium has the stores this particular shirt was from and she was wearing a shirt in exactly that colour with exactly those sleeves and… it took a few minutes, but we got there. Anyway, we had some serious science after this, but I’ll show that in the next blog.
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Edit: the logo on the badges was done by the excellent Jo. You can check out her work here: http://enjoy-chaos.moonfruit.com/#/ooz-art/4543897350
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