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The last day in New Zealand was spend in the township of Cambridge famous for horse-breeding and an impressive IT company named Nyriad, whom I've mentioned before. It was good to catch up with the gang, and especially to see their new and expanded offices. Their elaborating well on their core GPGPU technologies, which of course has some relationship with the massive GPGPU partition we're building on Spartan. On the latter we've had our share of challenges this week with getting various cutting-edge version components of drivers, OFED, kernels, and multinode libraries to talk together - and that's aside from the applications. Still, the best possible team is working on it, and to keep everyone up-to-date on progress work has me writing effectively a daily newsletter for the technical working group to give everyone a highlight report of what is going on. It sounds a bit like Project Management, eh?
Tim Task has come forth and written a foreword for Papers & Paychecks, which is a world of awesome. The printers have also been told that we're ready to publish. Other gaming news for the week include a session of Eclipse Phase, another of Megatraveller and a visit by a few of us to IMAX to see Blade Runner 2049. Those who know me well would know that I consider the original film to be my personal favourite. This sequal has a lot going for it, and given its aethetic importance to my life, I'll be seeing it again tomorrow at the Balwyn and making a specific post on the subject. In addition to this, I've been polishing the last bits of RPG Review courtesy of same very last minute contributions, but with the latest planned for the end of the weekend, it will be Monday before this is released.
I've penned a new article for Isocracy, on the well-intended but ultimately flawed "propertarian" ethical theory of the Non-Aggression Principle. Apropos another Isocracy Newsletter has come out with alerts us to the new role of Steve Sprigis as editor for the various association publications. Our original public officer, and perennial candidate Dr. Joe Toscano has also put up his hand for the by-election in the state seat of Northcote. Finally, I had an encounter with the NSW Young Libs on their attempted "reverse boycott" of Streets icecream. I penned a few words on their loss of empathy.
Tim Task has come forth and written a foreword for Papers & Paychecks, which is a world of awesome. The printers have also been told that we're ready to publish. Other gaming news for the week include a session of Eclipse Phase, another of Megatraveller and a visit by a few of us to IMAX to see Blade Runner 2049. Those who know me well would know that I consider the original film to be my personal favourite. This sequal has a lot going for it, and given its aethetic importance to my life, I'll be seeing it again tomorrow at the Balwyn and making a specific post on the subject. In addition to this, I've been polishing the last bits of RPG Review courtesy of same very last minute contributions, but with the latest planned for the end of the weekend, it will be Monday before this is released.
I've penned a new article for Isocracy, on the well-intended but ultimately flawed "propertarian" ethical theory of the Non-Aggression Principle. Apropos another Isocracy Newsletter has come out with alerts us to the new role of Steve Sprigis as editor for the various association publications. Our original public officer, and perennial candidate Dr. Joe Toscano has also put up his hand for the by-election in the state seat of Northcote. Finally, I had an encounter with the NSW Young Libs on their attempted "reverse boycott" of Streets icecream. I penned a few words on their loss of empathy.
