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tcpipFollowing on from RPG Review, RPG.net have published three of my reviews; Monsters! Monsters!, GURPS Aliens, Malleus Monstrorum, Anaxial's Roster, and Hunter The Reckoning, . More coming in the very near future; indeed I should also review the trilogy of Role Aids products, Monsters of Myth and Legend, which really are a forgotten gem in the history of RPGs. In actual play, experienced a very good session of Relic, a fairly sophisticated Warhammer 40K update of the classic game, Talisman.
After some four decades of collecting roleplaying games I have accumulated quite a few; indeed an entire room full. It is well about time that these found their way to new homes to share the great gaming love (or not - one of the enduring joys of roleplaying games is that they're usually a pleasure to read even if one doesn't actually get around to playing them). Nevertheless, from this substantial collection I've opened an online store, which includes some extremely rare publications (first edition RuneQuest, anyone?). The most significant challenge will be getting all the stock online, especially given I don't want to allocate more than an hour a day to the process, although plans for an official "opening" are in place.
All play and no work however makes a tcpip a .. umm, something. A big kid, perhaps? Apart from the usual fare from employment (which at the moment has much ado with GNU Octave), material has also been received for the final course for a Graduate Certificate in Tertiary and Adult Education, specifically Tertiary and Adult Education Policy. Although semester hasn't officially started, I've decided to into it, with the first week's readings dedicated to human capital theory, to which I have a number of objections from the perspective of classic political economy as well as contemporary system-lifeworld separations. Mention should also me be made that I decided to withdraw from the University of London economics course. Surprisingly this was not motivated by workload issues, but rather their examinations policy. Not only was 70% of each course determined by exam - there's is a whole range of andragogical reasons why this is plain wrong, but their insistence that these be organised interstate was not acceptable to me. So, still looking for a postgraduate economics course, anyone?
After some four decades of collecting roleplaying games I have accumulated quite a few; indeed an entire room full. It is well about time that these found their way to new homes to share the great gaming love (or not - one of the enduring joys of roleplaying games is that they're usually a pleasure to read even if one doesn't actually get around to playing them). Nevertheless, from this substantial collection I've opened an online store, which includes some extremely rare publications (first edition RuneQuest, anyone?). The most significant challenge will be getting all the stock online, especially given I don't want to allocate more than an hour a day to the process, although plans for an official "opening" are in place.
All play and no work however makes a tcpip a .. umm, something. A big kid, perhaps? Apart from the usual fare from employment (which at the moment has much ado with GNU Octave), material has also been received for the final course for a Graduate Certificate in Tertiary and Adult Education, specifically Tertiary and Adult Education Policy. Although semester hasn't officially started, I've decided to into it, with the first week's readings dedicated to human capital theory, to which I have a number of objections from the perspective of classic political economy as well as contemporary system-lifeworld separations. Mention should also me be made that I decided to withdraw from the University of London economics course. Surprisingly this was not motivated by workload issues, but rather their examinations policy. Not only was 70% of each course determined by exam - there's is a whole range of andragogical reasons why this is plain wrong, but their insistence that these be organised interstate was not acceptable to me. So, still looking for a postgraduate economics course, anyone?
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Date: 2013-07-24 06:43 am (UTC)I'm a big fan of Bourdieu's capital theory (he has made up a large chunk of my last few years of post-grad) and human capital just seems like a logical extension of that.
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Date: 2013-07-24 07:19 am (UTC)* "Human capital" is a weasel world. If what is meant is skills, knowledges, and networks then those words should be used.
* "Capital" in classic political economy is what one receives a return on investment from and is owned by the capitalist.
The first one is just knee-jerking on my part. The latter part suggests that there's something a little more sinister going on in the change of language. For example, leading to employers who demand contractual clauses in contracts on the grounds that they've paid for educational investment.
Or... in Milton Friedman's words on investing in children at school.