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Jello Biafra Concert, RPG Review 19, Masonic Documents, Teaching, and Visitors
On Saturday night went to see Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine; an excellent set of hard-and-fast punk rock with well-considered left-libertarian political content, and exceptional audience interaction. The Dead Kennedy's were enormously important in my youth, and this concert was reinvigorating to the spirt, even if my somewhat aging body took a couple of days to recover properly. Review on rocknerd will probably be written this week.
Whilst on the topic of reviews, RPG Review 19 has been released, alas over a month late. "The Apocalypse" themed issue included reviews of Gamma World, The Morrow Project, Aftermath, Heaven and Hell, The Apocalypse Stone, Twilight 2000 second edition, setting and rules patches for the latter, a comprehensive damage system, a Tunnels & Trolls setting, oriental millenarianism, and the use of the year 2012, The Eternal War for Civilization II, an interview with Tim Westhaven and his new fantasy-apocalypse game Shattered Moon, movie reviews of The Imposter, and Iron Man III, and Industry News. Also Lord Orcus has returned! Low-volume mailing announce mailing list as always accepting new subscriptions.
Also over the past few days, thanks to the wonderfully helpful Freemasons of New Zealand, have compiled three historical documents of our South Pacific base, namely the Diamond Jubilee of Lodge 105, Freemasonry in the Borough of West Harbour, and a History of Maori Lodge 105. Annoyingly all documents are fairly big PDFs of scanned image files as an OCR scanner with proper margins was not available. In more studious endeavours completed a draft of the major project for the course in adult and higher education, Teaching High Performance Computing to a Multicultural Audience. Pleased to discover from the literature review that I'm doing nearly everything right to date but have also identified the possibility of a mentor/outreach program would improve learner outcomes.
Our home has a vistor; Petri S., a surrealist science fiction author and artist of some ability, whose short-story The Quiet Agrarian attracted some attention. Anyway, he's staying with us for several weeks as he gets his belongings and finances in order. It's a good feeling to help him out in a time of need and he's certainly no burden - a person who keeps very much his own counsel and space whilst retaining a good level of sociability.
This Saturday will be busy; running a workshop and presentation in the afternoon for an Introduction to Supercomputers through Linux Users of Victoria, followed by a committee meeting of the same, then followed by a general meeting (FB link) of the Isocracy network followed by Louis Byrne, speaker for the West Papua Association.
Whilst on the topic of reviews, RPG Review 19 has been released, alas over a month late. "The Apocalypse" themed issue included reviews of Gamma World, The Morrow Project, Aftermath, Heaven and Hell, The Apocalypse Stone, Twilight 2000 second edition, setting and rules patches for the latter, a comprehensive damage system, a Tunnels & Trolls setting, oriental millenarianism, and the use of the year 2012, The Eternal War for Civilization II, an interview with Tim Westhaven and his new fantasy-apocalypse game Shattered Moon, movie reviews of The Imposter, and Iron Man III, and Industry News. Also Lord Orcus has returned! Low-volume mailing announce mailing list as always accepting new subscriptions.
Also over the past few days, thanks to the wonderfully helpful Freemasons of New Zealand, have compiled three historical documents of our South Pacific base, namely the Diamond Jubilee of Lodge 105, Freemasonry in the Borough of West Harbour, and a History of Maori Lodge 105. Annoyingly all documents are fairly big PDFs of scanned image files as an OCR scanner with proper margins was not available. In more studious endeavours completed a draft of the major project for the course in adult and higher education, Teaching High Performance Computing to a Multicultural Audience. Pleased to discover from the literature review that I'm doing nearly everything right to date but have also identified the possibility of a mentor/outreach program would improve learner outcomes.
Our home has a vistor; Petri S., a surrealist science fiction author and artist of some ability, whose short-story The Quiet Agrarian attracted some attention. Anyway, he's staying with us for several weeks as he gets his belongings and finances in order. It's a good feeling to help him out in a time of need and he's certainly no burden - a person who keeps very much his own counsel and space whilst retaining a good level of sociability.
This Saturday will be busy; running a workshop and presentation in the afternoon for an Introduction to Supercomputers through Linux Users of Victoria, followed by a committee meeting of the same, then followed by a general meeting (FB link) of the Isocracy network followed by Louis Byrne, speaker for the West Papua Association.
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It would be interesting to have them in the same room :)
I suppose I thought of you because I got the impression Andi is another person I will meet who appreciates Gorbachev on some level.
Gorbachev is a person who was considered great in his time, and yet very few has read what he actually stood for.
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I also thought his first track had made reference to the work of John Brunner. That, I'm less confident about, lacking a lyrics sheet at the time.
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Any chance of the slides or video making to the web?
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I'll probably had the slides on the web by Sunday.
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Looking forward to the slides.
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I was going to go into MPI programming but held back because the talk is only supposed to be for an hour, including the hands-on part, and of course, it's hardly beginners material either.
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