Community Spirit, Occassional Encounters
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caseopaya, many of my after-hours commitments are of my own making. As president of Linux Users of Victoria, I have to convene two meetings a month, along with various administrivia. As president of the Isocracy Network, the Victorian Secular Lobby, and convenor of the Philosophy Forum I also have to arrange a meeting every month or so for those bodies, plus articles, research & etc. As treasurer of the local ALP branch, and the SECC I have to bear bad tidings on how much money we don't have. Then there is my tendency to volunteer to give presentations, and the fact that I'm currently running four different rpg campaigns, plus there's RPG Review (a 64 page quarterly is not a minor task), and a small mountain of rpg.net reviews I've promised to do. I have been warned about spreading myself too thin; and I rather suspect that I'm almost at that point. I'm pretty good at time management and the ability to combine disparate activities into a common theme, but perhaps not that good.
In the coming week I have the last touches of a double-issue of RPG Review to finish, whilst I have also done a lot of preparation for a new Werewolf:The Apocalypse campaign based on the Yugoslav Wars that starts today. On Tuesday there's a LUV meeting, where I'm presenting a talk on innovation patents and software. For Isocracy, I've arranged an interview with Suelette Dreyfus (although my encounter with an anti-vaccinator on FB has led to its own 'blog post). I also have newsletters to put together for the Victorian Secular Lobby and the Isocracy Network and arranging for the next meeting. This week I'll be also framing a budget for the Kew SECC, after some discussion on expenditure issues. At the end of the week there's a meeting of the Philosophy Forum. Prior to that I'm giving an address at the Unitarians entitled Small Gods on the Pale Blue Dot. At least I won't have time to be bored.
Last night attended Tim Richard's 50th birthday gathering at Golden Monkey. I've known Tim for over twenty years, having first made association through Perth's science fiction community where and partner Narrelle Harris edited the fanzine Inconsequential_Parallax, and then in Melbourne through their left-of-centre politics (Tim and Narrelle were also responsible for the world's only Twin Peaks fanzine, Wrapped in Plastic). Every few years I run into Tim and Narrelle, typically at one of their excellent parties and reconnected. They're good people, intelligent people whose gatherings always have interesting people and fine conversation. Last night was no exception.
caseopaya, many of my after-hours commitments are of my own making. As president of Linux Users of Victoria, I have to convene two meetings a month, along with various administrivia. As president of the Isocracy Network, the Victorian Secular Lobby, and convenor of the Philosophy Forum I also have to arrange a meeting every month or so for those bodies, plus articles, research & etc. As treasurer of the local ALP branch, and the SECC I have to bear bad tidings on how much money we don't have. Then there is my tendency to volunteer to give presentations, and the fact that I'm currently running four different rpg campaigns, plus there's RPG Review (a 64 page quarterly is not a minor task), and a small mountain of rpg.net reviews I've promised to do. I have been warned about spreading myself too thin; and I rather suspect that I'm almost at that point. I'm pretty good at time management and the ability to combine disparate activities into a common theme, but perhaps not that good.In the coming week I have the last touches of a double-issue of RPG Review to finish, whilst I have also done a lot of preparation for a new Werewolf:The Apocalypse campaign based on the Yugoslav Wars that starts today. On Tuesday there's a LUV meeting, where I'm presenting a talk on innovation patents and software. For Isocracy, I've arranged an interview with Suelette Dreyfus (although my encounter with an anti-vaccinator on FB has led to its own 'blog post). I also have newsletters to put together for the Victorian Secular Lobby and the Isocracy Network and arranging for the next meeting. This week I'll be also framing a budget for the Kew SECC, after some discussion on expenditure issues. At the end of the week there's a meeting of the Philosophy Forum. Prior to that I'm giving an address at the Unitarians entitled Small Gods on the Pale Blue Dot. At least I won't have time to be bored.
Last night attended Tim Richard's 50th birthday gathering at Golden Monkey. I've known Tim for over twenty years, having first made association through Perth's science fiction community where and partner Narrelle Harris edited the fanzine Inconsequential_Parallax, and then in Melbourne through their left-of-centre politics (Tim and Narrelle were also responsible for the world's only Twin Peaks fanzine, Wrapped in Plastic). Every few years I run into Tim and Narrelle, typically at one of their excellent parties and reconnected. They're good people, intelligent people whose gatherings always have interesting people and fine conversation. Last night was no exception.
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Date: 2014-06-30 03:41 am (UTC)The scientific literacy I can be forgiving of; especially when the individual concern is prepared to admit what they don't know. However the conspiracy material is all a bit too much - we have enough real conspiracies, courtesy of Wikileaks and Snowden and the like. Preferring shape shifting lizards and the like in lieu of real conspiracies just strikes me as being a little on the far side of crazy.
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