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caseopaya found some lovely chairs that suit our dining table and a beautiful liquour cabinet to adorn our deco apartment. Mmmm... old dark wood. More of that please, it makes me go weak at the knees (along with old Mont Blanc pens, automatic winding Longines watches and neoclassical statuettes). If I wasn't such an egg-head I'm sure I could happily become an antiques dealer.
Have recently been in correspondence with the esteemed Greg Costikyan about using his wargame, Barbarian Kings, for our DragonQuest world (to whichanthanum has been introduced to). Also recently received items (French Glorantha map and Hero Wars Deluxe) from Greg Stafford however he neglected to give a dedication as agreed; it's hard to be an aging fanboy when the object of your fandom is forgetful.
Twice this week have travelled to deepest darkest suburbia (Boronoia) to introduce a very sharp elderly lady (86 years with a exceptional intellect and motor skills) to the joys of Ubuntu. Have consistently received a "mount: function not implemented error" which has been quite frustrating. One downside of the first visit was that I turned off her monitor (a sensible matter of course). Unfortunately with her hearing and vision not being spot on she couldn't hear the POST, the MS-Windows start-up and couldn't tell that her monitor was switched off (I did ask all these questions). A three hours of travel for a 2 second repair task.. Last night wore many hats at the Linux Users of Victoria general meeting as Lider sin Miedo was ill. Almost 60 people in attendence; David Jones from Intel (core architecture and roadmap) and Michael Still from Google (hacking Linksys NSLU2) were the superb speakers.
The Bulletin pulls apart the $100bn of utter nonsense that the Australian government is purchasing for defense over the next ten years. Fromanthony_baxter. Feel rather "in the know" having had two officers complain about some of these upcoming white elephants some time past. The United States HoR passes a bill to prevent suits challenging unconstitutional government actions advancing religion. While we're at it, lederhosen points out the retroactive end of habeas corpus in the United States. baralier follows up with more detail.
This Sunday I'm presenting at the Melbourne Unitarian Church (110 Grey St East Melbourne) at 11am on the topic "The Age of Spiritual Machines", mainly derived from the book of the same title by Ray Kurzweil.
caseopaya found some lovely chairs that suit our dining table and a beautiful liquour cabinet to adorn our deco apartment. Mmmm... old dark wood. More of that please, it makes me go weak at the knees (along with old Mont Blanc pens, automatic winding Longines watches and neoclassical statuettes). If I wasn't such an egg-head I'm sure I could happily become an antiques dealer.Have recently been in correspondence with the esteemed Greg Costikyan about using his wargame, Barbarian Kings, for our DragonQuest world (to which
anthanum has been introduced to). Also recently received items (French Glorantha map and Hero Wars Deluxe) from Greg Stafford however he neglected to give a dedication as agreed; it's hard to be an aging fanboy when the object of your fandom is forgetful.Twice this week have travelled to deepest darkest suburbia (Boronoia) to introduce a very sharp elderly lady (86 years with a exceptional intellect and motor skills) to the joys of Ubuntu. Have consistently received a "mount: function not implemented error" which has been quite frustrating. One downside of the first visit was that I turned off her monitor (a sensible matter of course). Unfortunately with her hearing and vision not being spot on she couldn't hear the POST, the MS-Windows start-up and couldn't tell that her monitor was switched off (I did ask all these questions). A three hours of travel for a 2 second repair task.. Last night wore many hats at the Linux Users of Victoria general meeting as Lider sin Miedo was ill. Almost 60 people in attendence; David Jones from Intel (core architecture and roadmap) and Michael Still from Google (hacking Linksys NSLU2) were the superb speakers.
The Bulletin pulls apart the $100bn of utter nonsense that the Australian government is purchasing for defense over the next ten years. From
anthony_baxter. Feel rather "in the know" having had two officers complain about some of these upcoming white elephants some time past. The United States HoR passes a bill to prevent suits challenging unconstitutional government actions advancing religion. While we're at it, lederhosen points out the retroactive end of habeas corpus in the United States. baralier follows up with more detail.This Sunday I'm presenting at the Melbourne Unitarian Church (110 Grey St East Melbourne) at 11am on the topic "The Age of Spiritual Machines", mainly derived from the book of the same title by Ray Kurzweil.