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tcpipThe majority of this week was conducting Linux and HPC courses for researchers from RMIT and the University of Melbourne; next week will be La Trobe. After doing the twenty or so hours of teaching over three days (I'm amazed that people put up with me for that long) and with even better than usual feedback, I gave a presentation at Linux Users of Victoria on parallel programming. Alas at the same time my Nexus 7 tablet ended up in a loop on the login screen and that took some investigation to solve. The dinner after the LUV meeting at Maria's had some interesting conversation about the BBC bypassing the sockets API for video streaming (fascinating stuff for those who are into such things).
Managed to get something akin to a break on Thursday night for a game of Cats Against Cthulhu, our Australian-country town scenario that combines The Secrets of Cats with Lovecraftian horrors. Impressed to discover that (finally) an English-language edition of Aquelarre is coming out after some thirty years. Currently working on a review of All Flesh Must Be Eaten, hoping to complete in a day or so.
Ahh, that old joke. Having started Duolingo just a couple of weeks ago I have dived right in (see what I did there?) and am now taking seven languages, albeit having only just started a couple of them. I am finding Dutch to be the most horrid despite previous assurances of its supposed ease. If I ever had the chance to develop a language I would get rid of definite and indefinite articles, gendered nouns, conjugations of verbs, and forced attempts at euphony (I'm looking at you French) - oh wait, Tetun does all that already. It's still the best second language I have ever encountered, even moreso than Esperanto.
Managed to get something akin to a break on Thursday night for a game of Cats Against Cthulhu, our Australian-country town scenario that combines The Secrets of Cats with Lovecraftian horrors. Impressed to discover that (finally) an English-language edition of Aquelarre is coming out after some thirty years. Currently working on a review of All Flesh Must Be Eaten, hoping to complete in a day or so.
Ahh, that old joke. Having started Duolingo just a couple of weeks ago I have dived right in (see what I did there?) and am now taking seven languages, albeit having only just started a couple of them. I am finding Dutch to be the most horrid despite previous assurances of its supposed ease. If I ever had the chance to develop a language I would get rid of definite and indefinite articles, gendered nouns, conjugations of verbs, and forced attempts at euphony (I'm looking at you French) - oh wait, Tetun does all that already. It's still the best second language I have ever encountered, even moreso than Esperanto.
