Rats and the Ratrace, North Korea and Socialists
In an amusing case of life imitating art, rodents of unusual size have appeared recently in Cornwall, Iran, Sweden, and Liverpool (with either bigger ones predicted). All this reminds me of Bansky's display at the Natural History Museum, which came with the slogan Our Time Will Come. "You can laugh now ... but one day they may be in charge.". Assisting the process for our new rodent overloards, dropped off an aging (almost 90 in rat years now) Lucky at the vet this morning to have a tumour removed.
In the actual rat-race (which notably and ironically, rats don't participate in), work has been exceedingly good this week. Following the well-received MPI training course, we've received a petition (no less!) from researchers who were sufficiently interested to want an additional workshop to further develop their code. This also follows on some expressions of interest from a radiotherapy group, an international campus in Vietnam, and some bushfire and geospatial people. I've had a paw in each of these activities, and it must be said I'm feeling more positive about the workplace than I have for many months - and this is despite some of the usual hiccups, such one researcher filling a storage disk with their data and bringing down the logins for others users. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
imajica_lj put it, "science didn't happen today".
This Saturday, after the LUV meeting on GNOME3, the Isocracy network is holding a meeting at the New International Bookstore on Human Rights and International Relations with an eye-witness guest speaker who is doing his thesis on the effectiveness of various diplomatic maneuvers. In a substantially more democratic and civil version of politics that describes itself as socialist, went to a well-attended a meeting for Labor's Socialist Left on Sunday. There's a vacancy for their policy convenor (which I used to do for the Pledge group for several years) and I've offered my services. They should know that I'll do this job very well, but having some years of not being deeply involved may act against me.
In the actual rat-race (which notably and ironically, rats don't participate in), work has been exceedingly good this week. Following the well-received MPI training course, we've received a petition (no less!) from researchers who were sufficiently interested to want an additional workshop to further develop their code. This also follows on some expressions of interest from a radiotherapy group, an international campus in Vietnam, and some bushfire and geospatial people. I've had a paw in each of these activities, and it must be said I'm feeling more positive about the workplace than I have for many months - and this is despite some of the usual hiccups, such one researcher filling a storage disk with their data and bringing down the logins for others users. As
imajica_lj put it, "science didn't happen today".This Saturday, after the LUV meeting on GNOME3, the Isocracy network is holding a meeting at the New International Bookstore on Human Rights and International Relations with an eye-witness guest speaker who is doing his thesis on the effectiveness of various diplomatic maneuvers. In a substantially more democratic and civil version of politics that describes itself as socialist, went to a well-attended a meeting for Labor's Socialist Left on Sunday. There's a vacancy for their policy convenor (which I used to do for the Pledge group for several years) and I've offered my services. They should know that I'll do this job very well, but having some years of not being deeply involved may act against me.