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Reviews, Work, Illness and Zombie Xmas
Dec. 26th, 2014 09:53 amAs mentioned in the last post, last Saturday went to see the Underground Lovers. The review isn't up on The Dwarf yet, but for most of the gig they weren't that good, but had a complete turnaround with three songs to go. I was impressed with the support band, The Tremors. In other reviews, I written up a classic from the RPG world, Flashing Blades. It's a very good game, especially considering the author was but sixteen at the time when he wrote it. Continuing the theme, currently working on a review of Rolemaster/Fantasy Hero campaign classic Pirates and this Sunday will be running another session of 7th Sea Freiburg.
Last days of work before the break have been especially dull. I attended the LUV Beginners Workshop to hear Terry Kemp give an overview of the latest releases of SuSE Linux whilst at the same time compiled and tested the latest releases of GCC and OpenMPI for gcc, intel, and pgi compilers. New kit for the upgrade of our main HPC system has arrived which is exciting, although it will only be in the coming weeks where that is fully installed and tested. We had a small power outage (not affected the data centre of course) which led me to write up how to set the time on Slackware. The rest of the week has been mostly writing up project management templates for those who can't follow instructions in text files. It is a late (and surprising) realisation in life that many people simply can't visualise graphs and charts from pure data, or at least not with ease.
As we do every other year, went to Brendan E's for Christmas. Following an antipasto entree, I cooked up salmon steaks and placki ziemniaczane. We watched The Leggo Movie, which was cute, followed by World War Z which had a good premise but poor execution. Unfortunately by late afternoon a cold took the better of me and as I lay on the couch groaning (not unlike a zombie, actually),![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya bundled me into the car and took me home. I guess the tiramisu I made will have to wait. At least I am better than Suki rat whom we heard passed away a few days ago. Valedictions li'll rodent, you brought joy and amusement to many.
Last days of work before the break have been especially dull. I attended the LUV Beginners Workshop to hear Terry Kemp give an overview of the latest releases of SuSE Linux whilst at the same time compiled and tested the latest releases of GCC and OpenMPI for gcc, intel, and pgi compilers. New kit for the upgrade of our main HPC system has arrived which is exciting, although it will only be in the coming weeks where that is fully installed and tested. We had a small power outage (not affected the data centre of course) which led me to write up how to set the time on Slackware. The rest of the week has been mostly writing up project management templates for those who can't follow instructions in text files. It is a late (and surprising) realisation in life that many people simply can't visualise graphs and charts from pure data, or at least not with ease.
As we do every other year, went to Brendan E's for Christmas. Following an antipasto entree, I cooked up salmon steaks and placki ziemniaczane. We watched The Leggo Movie, which was cute, followed by World War Z which had a good premise but poor execution. Unfortunately by late afternoon a cold took the better of me and as I lay on the couch groaning (not unlike a zombie, actually),
caseopaya bundled me into the car and took me home. I guess the tiramisu I made will have to wait. At least I am better than Suki rat whom we heard passed away a few days ago. Valedictions li'll rodent, you brought joy and amusement to many.