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Diary of a B+ Grade Polymath ([personal profile] tcpip) wrote2010-04-19 02:03 pm

MBA Progress, Animals News, RPG Review 7 etc.

Finished two major essays last week for Business Law and Economic Decision Making. The former involved contract law theory and analysis of a company contract (I chose a service level contract for an computer system, which I am sure is a surprise to everyone). The latter was an analysis of the implementation of a 'cap and trade' scheme for greenhouse emissions and particularly their effect on the electricity industry - and how that industry put out its hand in a big way to receive "compensation". I took a line that they've had enough of a free lunch already and other examples of externalities might apply instead.

Last week when getting off the bus after work, I encountered a young guinea pig running along Princess Street. It seemed a bit worried about the lights and many cars, so I scooped it up and took it home. So now we have yet another furry creature in our home; this one has been named Furfur, as it spends time with the equally demonically named rabbits, Astaroth and Murmur. The count is now; three rats, two rabbits, one manx cat, one guinea pig, one turtle and several fish.

With the receipt of Russell Bailey's interview piece I've finally had the opportunity to release seventh issue of RPG Review. Last Thursday we had another session of Dragon Age, which was primarily a 'kill monsters and get some more backstory'. It contrasted significantly with the RuneQuest-Glorantha game I ran on Sunday which was all role-playing and no action (but lots of rising tension). The scenario is based around "Return to Snakepipe Hollow", which was published in RQ Adventures in the early 90s and involves Dwarves, which in Glorantha terms are pretty much robots - good fun to roleplayin in a fantasy setting.

[identity profile] zhenzhi.livejournal.com 2010-04-19 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
free lunch! lol! they have been dining out on the same story forever.
we are expecting our bill will pay for a very lavish corporate lunch this winter.
as usual i am impressed by your achievements. :-) xo
and so sweet about furfur. i love the name.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-04-19 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
as usual i am impressed by your achievements

Alas, I never feel that impressed about them myself... :(

and so sweet about furfur. i love the name.

He's a cutie. When I finally find our mini-USB cord I'll post 'photos.

[identity profile] delicious-irony.livejournal.com 2010-04-19 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Furfur!

That's just so cute...

(*still chuckling at memories of Astaroth's heater dance*)

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-04-19 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
still chuckling at memories of Astaroth's heater dance

I really must spend some time working out how to get that movie file out of whatever godforsaken proprietary format it is in and put it online. More people need to see the joy of 'staroth and the heater dance!

[identity profile] amarafox.livejournal.com 2010-04-19 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Aw! Rescued guinea pig :)

[identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com 2010-04-19 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Btw do you store your essays somewhere online? I'd be excited to read some of'em.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm... You'll find some of them at isocracy.org

Just because you've raised this I've put up my essay for Economic Decision Making on Electricity Pricing Under An ETS (http://levlafayette.com/node/127)

[identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! And you really need to store them somewhere in your own place.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-04-24 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
You're quite right. For a long-time I did have a collection of my essays on a geocities site; fortunately there is still an archive available.

I really should put together a meta-page for these things...

[identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com 2010-04-24 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
I thought Geocities went down.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-04-24 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
It did, geocities.ws is a domain that some clever people have scrapped together with a fairly comprehensive archive.

They must have had a bucket of bandwith to run a wget -r -l 0 http://geocities.com

[identity profile] severina-242.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
More pets! Good god!

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
We are yet to get a dog or birds... Or an elephant.

[identity profile] severina-242.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Get a cocky. Nothing like waking to the haunting cry of the Cockatoo. Such gentle creatures.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Don't they live 100+ years? We'd have to leave it in our respective wills to some youngster, along with the turtle.

I'm thinking of trying to convince the committee of management at Willsmere to introduce some peacocks to the grounds. Now they make really beautiful, haunting sounds...