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On behalf of the Victorian Secular Lobby, I have written a draft submission on "End of Life Choices" for the Victorian Parliament's committee. There will be further developments in the next two weeks before submissions close. Further I note that Federal Liberal MP Warren Entsch began parliamentary prayers a few days ago with a statement from 106 Christian religious leaders who support marriage equality. I can note that this approach is something I started five years ago as the first public activity of the Victorian Secular Lobby. Apropos last Tuesday went to a meeting of the University of Melbourne Secular Society which has Professor Mark Elgar from Zoology speaking on the myths of evolutionary psychology, especially surrounding issues of leadership. Finally, on another religious and indeed secular matter, on Sunday September 6th I will be addressing the Unitarian Church on The Modernisation of Buddhist Karma.
Saturday was the beginners workshop for Linux Users of Victoria with an excellent set of test cases for BTRFS and ZFS by Russell Coker. I would like to elaborate on these to turn them into a more complete tutorial on the subject. As an additional example of positive actions in the past having fruitful success years later, in 2009 Linux Conference Australia raised $40000 for research into the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease. This week the first immunised Devils were released into the wild. Next month will be the AGM for Linux Users of Victoria; I am hoping to have a draft of our submission on the Trans-Pacific Partnership complete by tomorrow.
A quieter week on the gaming front. Thursday skipped the planned session and dragged out Stratego, a game I haven't touched since my early teens. Today played GURPS Middle Earth where we completed the Battle of the Three Armies and Not-Quite Helm's Deep where my character, in an act of ridiculous heroism freed a cave bear from a goblin army (which then turned on them, obviously) and then convinced a oath-breaking bandit to give up his wicked ways. Still battling to get the requisite number of articles together for this issue of RPG Review, as the deadline for the next issue approaches.
Saturday was the beginners workshop for Linux Users of Victoria with an excellent set of test cases for BTRFS and ZFS by Russell Coker. I would like to elaborate on these to turn them into a more complete tutorial on the subject. As an additional example of positive actions in the past having fruitful success years later, in 2009 Linux Conference Australia raised $40000 for research into the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease. This week the first immunised Devils were released into the wild. Next month will be the AGM for Linux Users of Victoria; I am hoping to have a draft of our submission on the Trans-Pacific Partnership complete by tomorrow.
A quieter week on the gaming front. Thursday skipped the planned session and dragged out Stratego, a game I haven't touched since my early teens. Today played GURPS Middle Earth where we completed the Battle of the Three Armies and Not-Quite Helm's Deep where my character, in an act of ridiculous heroism freed a cave bear from a goblin army (which then turned on them, obviously) and then convinced a oath-breaking bandit to give up his wicked ways. Still battling to get the requisite number of articles together for this issue of RPG Review, as the deadline for the next issue approaches.
