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tcpipSpent a couple of days this week systemically working my way through a course proposal at the school of vocational engineering at RMIT. The idea at this stage is to provide a year-long course as an option for computer engineering students that is specifically orientated towards HPC systems administration. Considering the dearth of material that is available for such a course, much of it is being built from the ground up, and quite literally in the sense that the course will cover planning, physical installation, configuration and testing, optimised software application installs, job submission, monitoring and troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. Apropos on this coming Tuesday I am speaking at Linux Users of Victoria on Educating People to become Linux Users: Some Key Insights from Adult Education.
This was a special Cthonian week; Thursday night held the dramatic ending to our three-year Nyarlathotep campaign at the former Kew asylum. Thus ends a combination of two of the most well-regarded RPG campaigns ever written. On Saturday we held another cheesequest and as part of that day's activities, play the original edition (1987) of Arkham Horror (there's an excellent review on rpg.net). It had been almost thirty years since I'd played this edition of the game. Almost needless to say, the monsters made short work of the puny investigators.
As for the cheesequest itself, the gastronomy started with fried crumbed camembert, followed by coq au vin and then up to the semi-finals with a knockout between the mighty Epoisses and white Stilton. Afterwards we travelled to deepest suburbia to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
log_reloaded's combination birthday and engagement party with her beau, Jase. Discovered that the pair of them, plus a few others in the room were Ingress players of the correct factional alignment. Also caught up with a number of people whom I hadn't seen in some years, including Tim S., who made the sensible suggestion that I should put in a paper to OSDC 2015 in Hobart.
There's been a couple of deaths this week which has affected me. The first being Chris Squire of Yes which ended up dominating much of my music listening for the week. The other was Nicholas Winton, a person who saved the lives of some seven hundred Jewish children on the second world war. Quiet about this for years, his wife discovered the names resulting in one surely must be one of the best moments in television history. The man is a great example of bravery and humility.
This was a special Cthonian week; Thursday night held the dramatic ending to our three-year Nyarlathotep campaign at the former Kew asylum. Thus ends a combination of two of the most well-regarded RPG campaigns ever written. On Saturday we held another cheesequest and as part of that day's activities, play the original edition (1987) of Arkham Horror (there's an excellent review on rpg.net). It had been almost thirty years since I'd played this edition of the game. Almost needless to say, the monsters made short work of the puny investigators.
As for the cheesequest itself, the gastronomy started with fried crumbed camembert, followed by coq au vin and then up to the semi-finals with a knockout between the mighty Epoisses and white Stilton. Afterwards we travelled to deepest suburbia to
log_reloaded's combination birthday and engagement party with her beau, Jase. Discovered that the pair of them, plus a few others in the room were Ingress players of the correct factional alignment. Also caught up with a number of people whom I hadn't seen in some years, including Tim S., who made the sensible suggestion that I should put in a paper to OSDC 2015 in Hobart.There's been a couple of deaths this week which has affected me. The first being Chris Squire of Yes which ended up dominating much of my music listening for the week. The other was Nicholas Winton, a person who saved the lives of some seven hundred Jewish children on the second world war. Quiet about this for years, his wife discovered the names resulting in one surely must be one of the best moments in television history. The man is a great example of bravery and humility.
