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angel80 has passed away, quite close to her birthday. She is a person whom I only had the pleasure of meeting once, a pleasant afternoon at a pub in Randwick, but had engaged in excellent discussion on livejournal since my days in Timor-Leste. A recognised expert in transitional and developmental economics, and especially the status of women, she is leaving behind quite a cadre of students whom she supervised PhDs, and had undertaken her courses. I am giving consideration to compiling a collection of works in her memory and honour.
On Thursday night, despite suffering the throaty effects of a very stubborn minor cold, spoke at the Victorian Humanist Society on Secularism, individual rights and democracy. It was well attended with excellent questions, even if I felt my delivery was less than optimal (*cough* *splutter*) on the night. Following night had dinner with Andrew R. and discussed the choice of the Victorian Secular Lobby for the worst major candidate (FB link) in the Australian election.
Speaking of which opinion polls do not look good for the Labor. This is quite strange given the budget blow-out by the Coalition, their ridiculous shop for boats policy, and their proposal to deny franking credits on their parental paid leave plan. Either the polls are wrong, or people really have taken leave of their senses.
On a completely different subject matter, my review of the indie axial age narrativist game.In A Wicked Age has been published on RPG.net; next review lined up is Albedo, which is weird combination of furries, hard science, and crunchy mechanics. RPG store continues do to quite well, especially given the minimal time that I'm dedicating to it. Tomorrow is another session of Karl's Space 1889 Ubiquity game, following our successes on Mercury last time.
angel80 has passed away, quite close to her birthday. She is a person whom I only had the pleasure of meeting once, a pleasant afternoon at a pub in Randwick, but had engaged in excellent discussion on livejournal since my days in Timor-Leste. A recognised expert in transitional and developmental economics, and especially the status of women, she is leaving behind quite a cadre of students whom she supervised PhDs, and had undertaken her courses. I am giving consideration to compiling a collection of works in her memory and honour. On Thursday night, despite suffering the throaty effects of a very stubborn minor cold, spoke at the Victorian Humanist Society on Secularism, individual rights and democracy. It was well attended with excellent questions, even if I felt my delivery was less than optimal (*cough* *splutter*) on the night. Following night had dinner with Andrew R. and discussed the choice of the Victorian Secular Lobby for the worst major candidate (FB link) in the Australian election.
Speaking of which opinion polls do not look good for the Labor. This is quite strange given the budget blow-out by the Coalition, their ridiculous shop for boats policy, and their proposal to deny franking credits on their parental paid leave plan. Either the polls are wrong, or people really have taken leave of their senses.
On a completely different subject matter, my review of the indie axial age narrativist game.In A Wicked Age has been published on RPG.net; next review lined up is Albedo, which is weird combination of furries, hard science, and crunchy mechanics. RPG store continues do to quite well, especially given the minimal time that I'm dedicating to it. Tomorrow is another session of Karl's Space 1889 Ubiquity game, following our successes on Mercury last time.
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Date: 2013-08-24 02:18 pm (UTC)I was polled years ago. Possibly methods have changed somewhat?!
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Date: 2013-08-24 02:27 pm (UTC)Almost certainly. Morgan has been cutting new ground with the multimode polling, a combination of landline calls, face-to-face, SMSes to mobiles, and online. The robocall polls are a new phenomenon, and I suspect they're completely borked.
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Date: 2013-08-24 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-24 10:24 pm (UTC)