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It's been quite a week, one of significant stress over for a number of reasons. The first issue was a particularly deadly script which took out our cluster for the better part of a day as it set a variable to null and then proceeded to attempt to copy the entire cluster into a user's home directory; a good argument for quotas. Later in the week, despite having ensured that some terabytes available, the projects directory (which does have a quota) also filled up, which has necessitated shuffling data around. Researchers have been using the system as a 'bit bucket' for a number of years, which really is inappropriate but you know what researchers are like - smart enough to take advantage of every opportunity that they can take; they have skill levels in scrounging. All said it has been good having ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
imajica_lj in the office; he's curmudgeonly but perspicacious when it comes to such matters.
The Isocracy Network has completed a submission on the Trans Pacific Partneship, just in on time. The take away line is "we support a Trans-Pacific Partnership, just not this one". The submission, alas, is far from complete due to time constraints. Next Saturday is a planned meeting with the author of The Booger Peril. Unfortunately the author has "some history" with parts of the left, to put it mildly, as a half-assed google search would have revealed. The author's point of view on the matter at Fairweather Comrades. All of which puts us in a very difficult situation; I just wanted to see a discussion of a science fiction book by an author who has recently been published in Overland and Counterpunch.
In much better news, I completed the language tree for Esperanto on duolingo - my first golden owl! By current reckoning I should complete French in a month, German a month after that, and then I'll work on Spanish. I have given up, at least for the time being, my attempt to do seven languages simultaneously, but I'm glad to have had the initial exposure. I still consider myself (and I suspect anyone else would) a complete beginner in Esperanto, but I've certainly at least been exposed to an extensive part of the vocabulary and the rather brilliantly simple rules of grammar.
In social events, ran a session of Fear Itself on Thursday night, which worked very well with the use of skills as a resource pool, a stripped-down version of the same game system used in Esoterroists on Trial Against Cthulhu. On Saturday visited Brendan E., and worked our way through the rest of the first season of Ash versus the Evil Dead, which continues to impress. We were also given possession of a large collection of excellent 80s and 90s vinyl (Brendan doesn't have a record player). Today participated in a session of GURPS Middle-Earth which involved clearing out a raiders in a Dwarven tomb and included one very annoyed Dwarven wight.
imajica_lj in the office; he's curmudgeonly but perspicacious when it comes to such matters.The Isocracy Network has completed a submission on the Trans Pacific Partneship, just in on time. The take away line is "we support a Trans-Pacific Partnership, just not this one". The submission, alas, is far from complete due to time constraints. Next Saturday is a planned meeting with the author of The Booger Peril. Unfortunately the author has "some history" with parts of the left, to put it mildly, as a half-assed google search would have revealed. The author's point of view on the matter at Fairweather Comrades. All of which puts us in a very difficult situation; I just wanted to see a discussion of a science fiction book by an author who has recently been published in Overland and Counterpunch.
In much better news, I completed the language tree for Esperanto on duolingo - my first golden owl! By current reckoning I should complete French in a month, German a month after that, and then I'll work on Spanish. I have given up, at least for the time being, my attempt to do seven languages simultaneously, but I'm glad to have had the initial exposure. I still consider myself (and I suspect anyone else would) a complete beginner in Esperanto, but I've certainly at least been exposed to an extensive part of the vocabulary and the rather brilliantly simple rules of grammar.
In social events, ran a session of Fear Itself on Thursday night, which worked very well with the use of skills as a resource pool, a stripped-down version of the same game system used in Esoterroists on Trial Against Cthulhu. On Saturday visited Brendan E., and worked our way through the rest of the first season of Ash versus the Evil Dead, which continues to impress. We were also given possession of a large collection of excellent 80s and 90s vinyl (Brendan doesn't have a record player). Today participated in a session of GURPS Middle-Earth which involved clearing out a raiders in a Dwarven tomb and included one very annoyed Dwarven wight.
