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beagl, kimeros and ferrouswheel (hello!) was a superb temporary residence. Managed to meet up briefly with mr_orgue (congratulations on handing in your Masters!) and later in the day caught up with both tatjna and mundens f2f for the first time and was introduced to the delightful allyn at BBC (beer before curry). "Curry" in this sense is a regular meeting of the New Zealand Network Operators Group. There were about sixty people in attendance including ehintz, whom I hadn't seen since the 2004 ANZUUA conference in Christchurch. Whilst in Wellington I also managed to get an oddity in the RPG world known as Hunter Planet; hilarious game which I haven't played for years.
On topic with such things, the next issue of RPG Review nears completion. It's a Middle Earth themed issue with a neatly incorporated Rolemaster retrospective. There are also reviews of Pathfinder Beta, Grey Ranks and the new SF indie game, 3:16 and articles on the recently revived Dragon Warriors. I'm getting a little worried that Other Minds seems to be seriously delayed in its fifth issue and am debating whether to include the article I included for those guys should be included in RPG Review as well. I should also take the opportunity to mention that the last scenario I ran for RuneQuest went amazingly well. High stakes, dramatic narrative, character conflict and development with players on at least two occassions doubled-over in laughter.
Last Sunday was the Melbourne Unitarian's end of year concert which was ably supported by the Choral Institute of Melbourne. We raised a "not insignificant" amount of money for Médecins Sans Frontières and following my advocacy for donations at the concert, I'll be speaking on 3CR next Saturday morning at 10.30am about said organisation.
A good week for sixties iconoclasts. Justice Kirby steps down and argues in favour of love in opposition to the moral disengagement typical in conservative politics. Germaine Greer makes some telling comments about Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. From those determined not to be iconoclastic, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd caves into business interests with a softcock greenhouse gas emissions policy; Paul Kelly is delighted (hat-tiptaavi)- but in doing so seems unaware of the notion of dependencies (Kenneth Davidson, on the other hand, is bluntly sensitive to the chain of command).
beagl, kimeros and ferrouswheel (hello!) was a superb temporary residence. Managed to meet up briefly with mr_orgue (congratulations on handing in your Masters!) and later in the day caught up with both tatjna and mundens f2f for the first time and was introduced to the delightful allyn at BBC (beer before curry). "Curry" in this sense is a regular meeting of the New Zealand Network Operators Group. There were about sixty people in attendance including ehintz, whom I hadn't seen since the 2004 ANZUUA conference in Christchurch. Whilst in Wellington I also managed to get an oddity in the RPG world known as Hunter Planet; hilarious game which I haven't played for years.On topic with such things, the next issue of RPG Review nears completion. It's a Middle Earth themed issue with a neatly incorporated Rolemaster retrospective. There are also reviews of Pathfinder Beta, Grey Ranks and the new SF indie game, 3:16 and articles on the recently revived Dragon Warriors. I'm getting a little worried that Other Minds seems to be seriously delayed in its fifth issue and am debating whether to include the article I included for those guys should be included in RPG Review as well. I should also take the opportunity to mention that the last scenario I ran for RuneQuest went amazingly well. High stakes, dramatic narrative, character conflict and development with players on at least two occassions doubled-over in laughter.
Last Sunday was the Melbourne Unitarian's end of year concert which was ably supported by the Choral Institute of Melbourne. We raised a "not insignificant" amount of money for Médecins Sans Frontières and following my advocacy for donations at the concert, I'll be speaking on 3CR next Saturday morning at 10.30am about said organisation.
A good week for sixties iconoclasts. Justice Kirby steps down and argues in favour of love in opposition to the moral disengagement typical in conservative politics. Germaine Greer makes some telling comments about Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. From those determined not to be iconoclastic, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd caves into business interests with a softcock greenhouse gas emissions policy; Paul Kelly is delighted (hat-tip
taavi)- but in doing so seems unaware of the notion of dependencies (Kenneth Davidson, on the other hand, is bluntly sensitive to the chain of command).