Malala and Education, Gaming Update
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tcpipThis Sunday (11am, 110 Grey St, East Melbourne) I'm speaking at the local Unitarian Church on "The Inspirational Malala Yousafzai", which will have a couple of surprises in it. This will be followed by The Philosophy Forum with Rohan McLeod on "Theories of Language and Definitions", which will cover the pragmatic, semantic, etc. On a further education-related matter, the new course in Tertiary and Adult Education policy goes well. Have completed the first five weeks of readings before the end of week one. Written some notes on the first week's readings, Knowledge Economy and Tertiary Education. Finally, in education related matters, have completed the "Chapter Octave" in the Mathematical Programming book that I'm writing - next will be finishing off "Chapter R". Haven't decided what order to put these in. The next year at work is looking like that it will at least double the training courses that we offer with yours truly doing nearly all of the work (in addition to internal auditing of the company, HPC systems administration, project management, internal information management etc).
Played an excellent and entertaining game of Eclipse Phase last night, involving a linguistic virus that has infected half the party already. I've been very fortunate to pick up another copy of the core rulebook, along with supplements Gatecrashing, Sunward, and Panoptican. Of course, the good folk at Posthuman Studios release much of their material for free, under a Creative Commons license, which is just another feather in the cap of how awesome they are. My Quicksales store continues to do well with the site living up to its name. It is such a gradual process, but people are expressing interest and buying, possibly because the prices are at the less expensive end of the "buy me now" prices for comparative condition. Not sure what this Sunday's game is going to be; Michael is running a Lake-Town Middle Earth game but there seems unsure whether it will be Rolemaster, MERP, or Fantasy Craft.
Oh, and Lucky Rat has had a benign tumor removed. The aptly-named rodent that has avoided becoming snake food, cat food, and now dodged the big c, continues to travel along blithely as if there isn't a care in the world. Except for the time she lost the tip of her tail (could have been worse, it could have been a paw, I suppose).
Played an excellent and entertaining game of Eclipse Phase last night, involving a linguistic virus that has infected half the party already. I've been very fortunate to pick up another copy of the core rulebook, along with supplements Gatecrashing, Sunward, and Panoptican. Of course, the good folk at Posthuman Studios release much of their material for free, under a Creative Commons license, which is just another feather in the cap of how awesome they are. My Quicksales store continues to do well with the site living up to its name. It is such a gradual process, but people are expressing interest and buying, possibly because the prices are at the less expensive end of the "buy me now" prices for comparative condition. Not sure what this Sunday's game is going to be; Michael is running a Lake-Town Middle Earth game but there seems unsure whether it will be Rolemaster, MERP, or Fantasy Craft.
Oh, and Lucky Rat has had a benign tumor removed. The aptly-named rodent that has avoided becoming snake food, cat food, and now dodged the big c, continues to travel along blithely as if there isn't a care in the world. Except for the time she lost the tip of her tail (could have been worse, it could have been a paw, I suppose).
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Date: 2013-08-02 07:08 am (UTC)In solidarity,
Hannah Harborow
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Date: 2013-08-03 12:04 pm (UTC)http://levlafayette.com/files/2011lucky02.jpg
At the moment she's in quarantine. There's a spot on her skin where the surgical glue didn't stick and as a result she has a subdermal hole, a potential infection vector. She should be OK, but she's being kept in her own cage until that closes up. I'm sure she thinks she's being punished :(