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London in 2014 
26th-Feb-2011 06:32 am
Serge 2012
This makes you want to visit London, doesn't it?



( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTaXjDt6_E )
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26th-Feb-2011 02:33 pm (UTC)
Already planning to go. Hoping to see lots of the 'Sphere there.
26th-Feb-2011 02:48 pm (UTC)
Does London's bid have any serious competition? If not, I should start planning for it. I have quite a few incentives to do so. :-)
26th-Feb-2011 03:03 pm (UTC)
Call no man happy until he is dead, but...according to this page, no one else has thrown their hat into the ring.

I suppose it's possible that a bid could come out of nowhere and win, but my suspension of disbelief would be seriously strained. Many of the people running this one were involved in 1995 and 2005, and they're serious and experienced conrunners. They subsumed one set of competition—a Den Haag bid crowd—and are pretty far into planning. That's one reason SMOFcon is in Amsterdam this December.

If I were going to pick a year to put a bid in, I'd look at that lot and pick a different one.
26th-Feb-2011 03:39 pm (UTC)
Thanks!
Barring some disaster, I expect that we'll be there.
See you then!
(If not earlier.)
26th-Feb-2011 05:19 pm (UTC)
I'm seriously thinking of starting up a Londinium in 214 bid, as soon as I can get the time machine working.
26th-Feb-2011 05:42 pm (UTC)
Romanes eunt domus!
26th-Feb-2011 05:35 pm (UTC)
Unfortunately, the page I had bookmarked with the crowdsourced analysis of where each shot comes from seems to have dropped off the net.
26th-Feb-2011 05:43 pm (UTC)
Let me know if something like it resurfaces.
26th-Feb-2011 08:52 pm (UTC)
I'm very tempted to go, except that until the TSA stops using their strip-search machines, I don't want to fly. And a transAtlantic cruise takes too long. :(
27th-Feb-2011 02:24 am (UTC)
I think they're quietly stopping the use of those stupid machines. They haven't tried to get a peep show out of me yet anyway. I'll find out tomorrow night when I fly to the Bay Area.

As for a transAtlantic flight, yes, that would be quite a thing to inflict upon my... ah... derrière.

Edited at 2011-02-27 02:24 am (UTC)
27th-Feb-2011 03:26 am (UTC)
If they do stop the use of those machines, I'll be very happy. Last I heard, they had explicitly said that they would continue to use them.
27th-Feb-2011 03:50 am (UTC)
Idiots.
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