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RPG Review, LCA Part II, and More
Feb. 3rd, 2013 10:54 pmSecond half of Canberra visit including catching up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_shadow298, whom I hadn't seen for some time, and meeting John Hughes for the first time. Interestingly both included a fair bit of discussion about H.P. Lovecraft, the former from a literary perspective and the latter from a gaming perspective. RPG Review #18 is almost finished, albeit over a month late now - just as well it's a quarterly. It has been sadly "interrupted" by the death of Lynn Willis, one of main figures behind Call of Cthulhu.
The conference proper of LCA included a visit to the Mount Stromlo Observatory, as the location of the annual Penguin Dinner, which was extremely pleasnt. Also had the opportunity to confirm with Linus Tolvards that he didn't ever say
On return to Melbourne, attended St. Michael's on Sunday, followed by facilitating The Philosophy Forum; Marietta Elliott-Kleerekoper gave an excellent and very well-attended talk on The Art Instinct, suggesting a genetic and evolutionary prediliction for the aesthetic in all animals and raising good questions on the social construction of aesthetics. Afterwards played Sunda to Sahul an interesting puzzle and strategy game representing the arrival of the first Australians across the Sunda archipelago.
Tomorrow I'm starting two days of training for post-graduate researchers on how to use Linux and submit High Performance Computing jobs. Tomorrow evening will see Tim Berners-Lee speak for a second time in under a week. Tuesday night is facilitating the LUV-main meeting. In just over two weeks will be off to New Zealand again.
the_shadow298, whom I hadn't seen for some time, and meeting John Hughes for the first time. Interestingly both included a fair bit of discussion about H.P. Lovecraft, the former from a literary perspective and the latter from a gaming perspective. RPG Review #18 is almost finished, albeit over a month late now - just as well it's a quarterly. It has been sadly "interrupted" by the death of Lynn Willis, one of main figures behind Call of Cthulhu.The conference proper of LCA included a visit to the Mount Stromlo Observatory, as the location of the annual Penguin Dinner, which was extremely pleasnt. Also had the opportunity to confirm with Linus Tolvards that he didn't ever say
The future is open-source everything. Apart from that felt that the second half of the conference didn't really deliver as well as it should have; more on that later. Probably should mention that the behaviour of at least one of the organisers was somewhat less than optimal.
On return to Melbourne, attended St. Michael's on Sunday, followed by facilitating The Philosophy Forum; Marietta Elliott-Kleerekoper gave an excellent and very well-attended talk on The Art Instinct, suggesting a genetic and evolutionary prediliction for the aesthetic in all animals and raising good questions on the social construction of aesthetics. Afterwards played Sunda to Sahul an interesting puzzle and strategy game representing the arrival of the first Australians across the Sunda archipelago.
Tomorrow I'm starting two days of training for post-graduate researchers on how to use Linux and submit High Performance Computing jobs. Tomorrow evening will see Tim Berners-Lee speak for a second time in under a week. Tuesday night is facilitating the LUV-main meeting. In just over two weeks will be off to New Zealand again.
