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Have written three major articles this week; the first was a rather satirical piece following an encounter with a religiously-inspired individual who used the old chestnut that marriage equality should be opposed because same-sex unions can't produce children. I consider this to be the The Worst Secular Argument Against Marriage Equality and there was follow-up discussion on talk_politics (a livejournal community which still generates debate!). The next was an essay on the current Libyan civil war which is has generated a bit of discussion on Facebook, and was partially inspired by reading the absolutely appalling evaluations on the situation by the journal Inclusive Democracy; they are certainly deserving of a scathing 'blog piece as well. The third was The Philosophy of Computers and Computation, unsurprisingly presented to The Philosophy Forum.
Played Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition with Liz B., as GM on Sunday; it was a standard sewer-crawl and introduction to the game system; much simplified (and limited) from earlier editions. Thursday night played Paranoia XP with Andrew B., as GM High Programmer; we played it 'straight' which can go pretty damn Orwellian, real fast. Still haven't managed to get the June issue of RPG Review completed yet; which is rather frustrating to say the least. Work progresses, albeit a little slowly on the new edition of Swordbearer, however I still think the planned timeline (release next year) will succeed.
Have completed another gruelling first day of bringing researchers up to speed on Linux and High Performance Computing; it was a good class, mostly from the University of Melbourne and RMIT, with a couple from Victoria University and ARPANSA. It was exhausting primarily because (as mentioned previously) I've been run ragged at work over the past couple of weeks and it's beginning to affect my health. Nevertheless I must have done something right as the post-course feedback was perfect for delivery and content ratings; I usually do quite well, but this is the first time I think I have received a perfect score from everyone who responded. Two more days to go on the current round, then followed up with another meeting about the vocational engineering programme.
Played Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition with Liz B., as GM on Sunday; it was a standard sewer-crawl and introduction to the game system; much simplified (and limited) from earlier editions. Thursday night played Paranoia XP with Andrew B., as GM High Programmer; we played it 'straight' which can go pretty damn Orwellian, real fast. Still haven't managed to get the June issue of RPG Review completed yet; which is rather frustrating to say the least. Work progresses, albeit a little slowly on the new edition of Swordbearer, however I still think the planned timeline (release next year) will succeed.
Have completed another gruelling first day of bringing researchers up to speed on Linux and High Performance Computing; it was a good class, mostly from the University of Melbourne and RMIT, with a couple from Victoria University and ARPANSA. It was exhausting primarily because (as mentioned previously) I've been run ragged at work over the past couple of weeks and it's beginning to affect my health. Nevertheless I must have done something right as the post-course feedback was perfect for delivery and content ratings; I usually do quite well, but this is the first time I think I have received a perfect score from everyone who responded. Two more days to go on the current round, then followed up with another meeting about the vocational engineering programme.
