Had some nice nonsense for my humor blog this week so I hope you enjoy it now. Special feature: Jimmy Rabbit shows off his cleverness dealing with a problem at the Rabbits' Ball!
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Wednesday was the second and final day of the conference and I took a couple pictures of spots on campus.
``Rennes 2 Budget Participatif'' was there in 2015 also and I was curious if it'd still be there. It's one of those MAME multi-game emulators set up in a cabinet.
Far side of the arcade cabinet, with a nice view to show the tables where they were setting up the evening snack time.
Rennes 2 was split off from the University of Rennes in the late 60s and you can see it in buildings like this.
This seemingly random collection of flat surfaces is also usable as a stairway to the second floor.
Posters showing what all's going on, including a couple of couple of music shows. Franz Ferdinand was scheduled to be at the Festival Roi Arthur.
And the view from the second floor. The most curious thing is they gathered up everyone's badges, which were just paper in plastic lanyards, so ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger would not have that to serve as proof she'd been at the conference.
Signs for the conference in one of the hallways. Curious someone felt they needed to correct room L131's name like that, huh?
On the first floor was this little cafeteria we never saw open, and on the right, a small eating space that they tried the day before to use for lunch service and horribly overloaded.
A poster on the floor near the vending machines, a guide to whether you're actually in an abusive relationship, and how to tell how bad the warning signs are.
Outside here. The stairs being painted to a pride flag was new from 2015.
This was the conference building, building L. Although the building was not like anything I'd been at, its extremely 1970 style made it feel immediately nostalgic and familiar.
Here's that album cover you needed.
Trivia: In 1924-25 the Todd Protectograph company of Rochester, New York, made an adding machine named the Star. Source: Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington-Rand and the Industry they Created, 1865 - 1965, James W Cortada.
Currently Reading: In The Shadow Of The Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965 - 1969, Francis French and Colin Burgess.
