Some of my favourite photos from the Spider integration campaign. June to August 2013 in Palestine, TX.
This is just a collection of previously-uploaded photos. Titles and captions may not all make sense without their original context.

Powder-coated Ed 
From having machined teflon parts

Anne 
Making cables. Clearly she likes this. Maybe she should do it more often?

Lorenzo 
Cleans up around the focal plane

Insert inspection 

Baffled Johanna 
She shows off her handiwork

Sean poses 
He and John left in the afternoon

"All" of the half-wave plates 
The different frequency bands are white/black due to different anti-reflection coatings

Spanky 

Anne and the VCS 
Preparing to install the MLI layer

Clean highbay panorama 
Featuring Gondola, Theo (the cryostat). Plus Becky and Johanna

Johanna paints inside a test baffle 
So that we can test whether the inside should be shiny or white (which is "black" to Spider, due to titanium dioxide)

And one of her not looking goofy 

This happened surprisingly often 

Vacuum parts 
In preparation for the liquid nitrogen fill

Cryo electronics 
All six MCEs, for reading out six telescopes of detectors

Anne 
Judging by giantness of smile, I think she was having by far the most fun

Don and Jon 
Like in the first group, Don has a slower kart so has to try to block passers

Bill, going the fastest 
As I experiment with panning

Ziggy prepares for safety 
And crossfire?

Ed loads the BB pistol 
The BB guns are a fun afternoon stress-relief activity

Becky and the pistol 

Sunset 

Yours truly 

Becky conducts with a pair of sparklers 

Black widow again 
This time as close as I was willing to get

Natalie is testing the PSSes 

Team Camo. Modeled by Jamil 
The day shift's colours

Laika's on Team Red (the early shift) 
With her favourite people: Anne, Johanna, and myself

Natalie demonstrates alternate styles 

More alternate styles 

Don 
Team Camo

Retrieved 

Jamil fills water balloons 

Attempting to blow out sparklers 
Atop the brownies for dessert

Reaching moment 
Bill fills the liquid nitrogen source in the FTS

Natalie's drinking war face 
Yes, that is a bottle of liquor shaped like an AK-47

Jeff poses 
While confirming that most of the rest of my camera still works

Jon on a ladder, inspecting Theo's plumbing 
He spends a lot of time doing this

Beam mapping 

Lorenzo repaired the espresso machine (since rebroken...) 
Because beam mapping involves a lot of waiting

Laika frolics in the garden 
Not yet completely subject to the cone's sadness

Success at making fire 
With technology

Jamil is wary 

Styling 
Sasha goes the extra mile and styles Jamil's mohawk for him

Team Mohawk portrait 
With Spider

Don (with Laika's help) found a skull 

Tiny-fucking-Tim 

Sasha 
Wearing a Spider shirt. Which probably means she won't be ready for "Spider shirt Monday"

Being cute 

And Seans's I-have-a-kitty hold 
With supervillainesque grin

Archery interlude: Sean got a compound bow! 

My turn 

I can haz polarization modulation? 

John climbs the back to remove some tricky cables 

Cowboy Ed 
He got a cowboy hat

Midair cryostat 

Telescope inserts 
Accessible again, and ready for removal

So many telescopes 
Too many?

Becky, almost finished with insert preparation 
And enjoying it. Or maybe feigning amusement at my antics

Becky rocks the cowgirl hat 
Pulling it off better than anyone else
 
 								
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