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Completed the four days of training courses for the various post-grads; given that none of them had any experience with the Linux command line at the beginning of the first day, it is no small achievement that by the fourth day they were trawling their way through and modifying MPI code. Whilst excellent overall, a fly in the ointment was the second day on statistical and numerical computations (the first time this had been run) which ran short of time. I also took the opportunity to make the information into a brief "lightning talk" (one of several) at the Linux Users of Victoria meeting whose headline presentation was Stewart Smith discussing continuous integration (which was also given at OSDC in Auckland last month).
Thursday night was the first session of the classic Call of Cthulhu adventurer, Masks of Nyarlathotep. Very good progress in the first session with surviving characters from the previous Horror on the Orient Express story returning to make a second attempt at being consumed by the Old Ones; including the Nazi archaeological-occultist played by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spaetlese (IRL, quite left-of-center), having just returned from their time in a Romanian sanatorium. In other gaming activities, have recently been very taken by Conquer Club which runs online Risk-like games with a range of different rulesets, maps, etc. I was introduced via a search for the author of the All-Adventure Action Roleplay Game! (AAARG!), which was successful - once again the Internet wins.
Visited Tojo last night and enjoyed excellent food, conversation, and drinks (for myself, a superb 2009 Spanish red). We watched Four Lions, a very impressive example of contemporary gallows humour, reminding me more of Man Bites Dog than La Grande Bouffe. It also makes an interesting supplement to compare against two books that I'm currently reading; Habermas' Between Naturalism and Religion and Clive Hamilton's The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics. The contribution of the two should be interesting for the upcoming meeting of the Victorian Secular Lobby.
Thursday night was the first session of the classic Call of Cthulhu adventurer, Masks of Nyarlathotep. Very good progress in the first session with surviving characters from the previous Horror on the Orient Express story returning to make a second attempt at being consumed by the Old Ones; including the Nazi archaeological-occultist played by
spaetlese (IRL, quite left-of-center), having just returned from their time in a Romanian sanatorium. In other gaming activities, have recently been very taken by Conquer Club which runs online Risk-like games with a range of different rulesets, maps, etc. I was introduced via a search for the author of the All-Adventure Action Roleplay Game! (AAARG!), which was successful - once again the Internet wins.Visited Tojo last night and enjoyed excellent food, conversation, and drinks (for myself, a superb 2009 Spanish red). We watched Four Lions, a very impressive example of contemporary gallows humour, reminding me more of Man Bites Dog than La Grande Bouffe. It also makes an interesting supplement to compare against two books that I'm currently reading; Habermas' Between Naturalism and Religion and Clive Hamilton's The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics. The contribution of the two should be interesting for the upcoming meeting of the Victorian Secular Lobby.
