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Animals, Atheism, Gaming, Dali
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caseopaya, Chris Samuel and I spent the day at Healesville Animal Sanctuary. Full of iconic Australian animals (kangaroos, wallabies, emus, koalas, wombats, echidnas, platypuses, tasmanian devils, possums, quolls, numerous birds - including some very rare, various snakes, lizards and bats), it is certainly a thoroughly pleasant and well-maintained place for said critters. No drop bears tho'.
Gave a presentation at the Melbourne Atheist Society on Tuesday night on "Atheist Support for Religious Freedom?". It was well-attended and well-received, with some excellent questions and statements, mostly around the tax-exempt status of religious organisations, although there was couple of people in the peanut gallery who were paddling in the shallows (e.g., "Where do atheists get their ethics from?").
The latest issue of RPG Review has received some coverage in the comic scene, courtesy of Bleeding Cool and the good folk at Orang Utan comics. In other gaming-related news for two oddities, I ran Lords of Creation on Thursday (it's crazier than Rifts and not as broken) and today it'll be a grand Napoleanic agenda with Avalon Hill's historical War and Peace.
Like most of Melbourne (and I completed forgot to 'blog), we did go to the Salvador Dali exhibition a couple of weeks back. Not desiring to stand in the incredibly long queue took the opportunity to sign up as NGV members, thus applying the other 'rationing' mechanism. I was particularly thrilled to see the film Destino which I had quite an interest in about fifteen years ago (if you must know through a game of Mage: The Ascension) and the collaborations with Phillipe Halsman.
caseopaya, Chris Samuel and I spent the day at Healesville Animal Sanctuary. Full of iconic Australian animals (kangaroos, wallabies, emus, koalas, wombats, echidnas, platypuses, tasmanian devils, possums, quolls, numerous birds - including some very rare, various snakes, lizards and bats), it is certainly a thoroughly pleasant and well-maintained place for said critters. No drop bears tho'.Gave a presentation at the Melbourne Atheist Society on Tuesday night on "Atheist Support for Religious Freedom?". It was well-attended and well-received, with some excellent questions and statements, mostly around the tax-exempt status of religious organisations, although there was couple of people in the peanut gallery who were paddling in the shallows (e.g., "Where do atheists get their ethics from?").
The latest issue of RPG Review has received some coverage in the comic scene, courtesy of Bleeding Cool and the good folk at Orang Utan comics. In other gaming-related news for two oddities, I ran Lords of Creation on Thursday (it's crazier than Rifts and not as broken) and today it'll be a grand Napoleanic agenda with Avalon Hill's historical War and Peace.
Like most of Melbourne (and I completed forgot to 'blog), we did go to the Salvador Dali exhibition a couple of weeks back. Not desiring to stand in the incredibly long queue took the opportunity to sign up as NGV members, thus applying the other 'rationing' mechanism. I was particularly thrilled to see the film Destino which I had quite an interest in about fifteen years ago (if you must know through a game of Mage: The Ascension) and the collaborations with Phillipe Halsman.