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Firstly, can I give lots of thanks to people who commented in my LJ and emailed me about completing my PhD.
The lightning fast tour of the South Island of New Zealand with severina_242 was great.
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In other news, I am now officially a small business person, or to be precise - a freelance IT consultant. In these days of short-term intensive contracts, wage-labour is reaching its historically inevitably conclusion of piecemeal employment and as part of the process I have acquired an ABN. Meanwhile my work at Borderlands has spun off to include more employment with Student Partnerships Worldwide and New Community Quarterly. To add a bit of irony to the proceedings I have had an article accepted for Bad Subjects, a US university politics journal on the Australian welfare-income system in their special issue on Wage Slavery.
I am giving serious consideration of reviving Mimesis Inc, originally established as a roleplaying/simulation association in the mid-nineties, as a publishing association. I have some pretty good distribution contacts through a cooperative effort by small publishers and an independent, author-run association with shared costs may be the way to go in preference to self-publication or for that matter, a commercial publisher. One would get the high returns associated with independent publishing, yet also receive the administrative and distribution advantages of a commercial organization (not to mention associative credibility). Two matters that I would be hard-nosed about: non-fiction only, and graduates only. I'd want this to be of a very high standard. So who's interested? Or what advice do you have?
From begedel, I now have more reasons to move/visit/retire in Wellington. They have an astrological stonehenge . Question is, why haven't my NZ lj friends mentioned it, eh?
From Rilian: "Republicans won't rest until abortion is completely outlawed, Social Security is abolished, the welfare state is completely rolled back, the book of Genesis is taught in science classes, and the federal income tax is abolished." Sound like a lefty conspiracy theory? Think again.
Also from Rilian
That's very err, white of you, Mr. President (search the text for 'white').
Ketauh pours it all out in a single post; religion, the environment, capitalism, freedom, and the end of the world.
A brief and insightful History of Trotskyism, which led me to research the tragic tale of Juan Posadas, the serious Trotskyist leader who proposed the benefits of nuclear war, socialist aliens and dolphin communication.
The lightning fast tour of the South Island of New Zealand with severina_242 was great.
( Read more... )
In other news, I am now officially a small business person, or to be precise - a freelance IT consultant. In these days of short-term intensive contracts, wage-labour is reaching its historically inevitably conclusion of piecemeal employment and as part of the process I have acquired an ABN. Meanwhile my work at Borderlands has spun off to include more employment with Student Partnerships Worldwide and New Community Quarterly. To add a bit of irony to the proceedings I have had an article accepted for Bad Subjects, a US university politics journal on the Australian welfare-income system in their special issue on Wage Slavery.
I am giving serious consideration of reviving Mimesis Inc, originally established as a roleplaying/simulation association in the mid-nineties, as a publishing association. I have some pretty good distribution contacts through a cooperative effort by small publishers and an independent, author-run association with shared costs may be the way to go in preference to self-publication or for that matter, a commercial publisher. One would get the high returns associated with independent publishing, yet also receive the administrative and distribution advantages of a commercial organization (not to mention associative credibility). Two matters that I would be hard-nosed about: non-fiction only, and graduates only. I'd want this to be of a very high standard. So who's interested? Or what advice do you have?
From begedel, I now have more reasons to move/visit/retire in Wellington. They have an astrological stonehenge . Question is, why haven't my NZ lj friends mentioned it, eh?
From Rilian: "Republicans won't rest until abortion is completely outlawed, Social Security is abolished, the welfare state is completely rolled back, the book of Genesis is taught in science classes, and the federal income tax is abolished." Sound like a lefty conspiracy theory? Think again.
Also from Rilian
That's very err, white of you, Mr. President (search the text for 'white').
Ketauh pours it all out in a single post; religion, the environment, capitalism, freedom, and the end of the world.
A brief and insightful History of Trotskyism, which led me to research the tragic tale of Juan Posadas, the serious Trotskyist leader who proposed the benefits of nuclear war, socialist aliens and dolphin communication.