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 first day in town before dinner... |
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 dinner group---all from dublin or melbourne |
 except for me |
 town at night |
 clock tower |
 still no clue how to read it |
 nicola and me |
 more tower |
 some bulding, apparently with a wc |
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 more nighttime pictures |
 ...of the vltava |
 ...and the charles bridge |
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 cobblestones and feet |
 next day from ahigh |
 guards...not as still as in uk, but close |
 cathedral |
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 apparently the largest contiguous |
 cathedral complex in europe |
 (but not largest cathedral) |
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 patrick |
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 we think these are for heating |
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 jon may and an organ |
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 incredible: a gun/axe hybrid |
 and some sword/gun hybrids -- they thought of everything! |
 if i were a knight |
 i would want to be... |
 chicken man! |
 me shooting a crossbow |
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 some torture device |
 another one |
 another torture device |
 quickly followed by barbies! |
 prague, the city---i think charles university is in there |
 jason reisa overlooking prague |
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 patrick pantel (again) |
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 yes, they sell cigarettes in restaurants |
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 the new-old synagogue |
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 too bad it's "r" not "f" |
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 kevin knight shows off beer and mini-castle |
 free champagne at banquet |
 but don't forget we're still nerds! |
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 my table: graeme hirst, daniel marcu, (blanking!) and patrick pantel |
 plus jason reisa, steve deneefe's wife and her husband |
 after dinner crowd: deepak r, uli g, alex f, jason r and marine c |
 back to the cathedral, going for weird shots now |
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 our new group: barney pell, chin-yew l, rahul b and lorenzo t |
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 hal playing too much with his new camera |
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 and the playing ends (for now) |
 view from top of cathedral |
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 "steps" in vltava |
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 emnlp carea chair's dinner: jan w, joakim n, louann p., jan h (and others not pictured) |
 next day at the natural history museum (before black light show) |
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credits: design and font inspired by Seth Able's LoRD, some images converted to ANSI using ManyTools, original drawing of me by anonymous. last updated on thirty september, two thousand twenty four.