The three days training and systems administration on the Pople cluster at the University of Western Australia School of Chemistry and Biochemistry went very well with excellent feedback. It was especially good to catch up with old friend ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fred_mouse who worked in the same building over lunch. After the third day, caught up with a dozen or so Perth friends at Tak Chee House followed by cocktails at the finely appointed Bar Lafayette at the old Perth Technical College. Some of the staff seemed rather pleased to have a Lafayette visiting their bar, not the least being the waitress from Versailles. As a whole it was quite a wonderful night of good food, good drink, and excellent conversation. The following day managed to catch up for a long lunch with my old mentor, Bruce T., at The Dome in Maylands, site of the historic Peninsula Hotel, which does have a story or two in its own right.
Leaving that afternoon, the flight was relatively quick. Movie was The Hunger Games : Mockingjay Part I which was simply terrible. A stuff-up with luggage meant that we did not return home until after midnight. Whilst well and truly exhausted managed to make it along to Rohan's presentation at The Philosophy Forum on A Phenomenological Ontology of Love: Body, Heart, and Spirit which packed in a lot and generated a great deal of conversation (everyone has at least some idea about the topic). Hopefully will have it online at Lightbringers soon. Afterwards played GURPS Middle-Earth where on a tangential plot, we dealt with Earth Spirits in an old-fashioned D&D-style dungeon crawl (complete with silly monsters).
Whilst in WA received notification that my application to do a Master of Education from the University of Otago had been accepted. I am hoping with prior credit from my relevant Graduate Certificate I should be able to complete the degree with 'just' the dissertation. As part of the application, I have had to submit a propsed thesis abstract of course; I am taking a rather broad brush with The Future of the University in the Age of the Internet, where I will start with the effects of the print revolution on the university system, and look at current and future methods of online learning, and the effects this will have on the university as an physical institution and as a culture. I'm rather looking forward to it.
fred_mouse who worked in the same building over lunch. After the third day, caught up with a dozen or so Perth friends at Tak Chee House followed by cocktails at the finely appointed Bar Lafayette at the old Perth Technical College. Some of the staff seemed rather pleased to have a Lafayette visiting their bar, not the least being the waitress from Versailles. As a whole it was quite a wonderful night of good food, good drink, and excellent conversation. The following day managed to catch up for a long lunch with my old mentor, Bruce T., at The Dome in Maylands, site of the historic Peninsula Hotel, which does have a story or two in its own right.Leaving that afternoon, the flight was relatively quick. Movie was The Hunger Games : Mockingjay Part I which was simply terrible. A stuff-up with luggage meant that we did not return home until after midnight. Whilst well and truly exhausted managed to make it along to Rohan's presentation at The Philosophy Forum on A Phenomenological Ontology of Love: Body, Heart, and Spirit which packed in a lot and generated a great deal of conversation (everyone has at least some idea about the topic). Hopefully will have it online at Lightbringers soon. Afterwards played GURPS Middle-Earth where on a tangential plot, we dealt with Earth Spirits in an old-fashioned D&D-style dungeon crawl (complete with silly monsters).
Whilst in WA received notification that my application to do a Master of Education from the University of Otago had been accepted. I am hoping with prior credit from my relevant Graduate Certificate I should be able to complete the degree with 'just' the dissertation. As part of the application, I have had to submit a propsed thesis abstract of course; I am taking a rather broad brush with The Future of the University in the Age of the Internet, where I will start with the effects of the print revolution on the university system, and look at current and future methods of online learning, and the effects this will have on the university as an physical institution and as a culture. I'm rather looking forward to it.
