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Work has been curiously positive over the past few days with the enlarged team making good progress on outstanding support tickets, and with some new positive results on HPL tests on the GPGPU partition. Apropos, an interesting experience this day that led to one of my websites being offline for a few hours led me to compose a few notes on receiving a Drupal "Access denied" Message. On a completely different matter (but also at the same location) Professor Geoff Scollary gave a good presentation on Friday afternoon of 'Sparkling Wines of the World'; a dozen glasses later, I could but conclude the Arras Grand Vintage 2008 was pretty delicious.
Three of my old Perth friends had separate birthday dinners over the weekend and, for good reasons, two of them had to cancel. The third, Brendan E., had a few people over where gin was the drink of choice appropriately for the hatred scale. I was introduced to a new genre of film to me, the zombie-stripper film, with Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!, which was pure schlock in production, acting etc, but it was clear the script-writer was having a great time. On related social activities, in the gaming side of my life I've finished revies Exalted, which ended up being over three thousand words. My review of Pantheon is somewhat less. Actual play experiences this week consisted of an Eclipse Phase game on Friday night, followed by a 90 minute midnight walk home, and RuneQuest on Sunday.
Also, some political matters. I've recently delved into the fascinating debate of gun control with the United States especially in mind and have composed a short piece on Isocracy on the topic, Ending Homicide and the Right to Arms. One of the interesting facts about the topic is the strongest correlation with homicide is economic inequality, followed by gender inequality. The statistical reality is gun controls do reduce homicides and at a greater rate than the general fall experienced in OECD countries. People do tend to have opinions first and react to facts second, alas. Finally, and perversely appropriate, this Sunday I'll be presenting at the Unitarian Church on Remembering Martin Luther King, Jnr.
Three of my old Perth friends had separate birthday dinners over the weekend and, for good reasons, two of them had to cancel. The third, Brendan E., had a few people over where gin was the drink of choice appropriately for the hatred scale. I was introduced to a new genre of film to me, the zombie-stripper film, with Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!, which was pure schlock in production, acting etc, but it was clear the script-writer was having a great time. On related social activities, in the gaming side of my life I've finished revies Exalted, which ended up being over three thousand words. My review of Pantheon is somewhat less. Actual play experiences this week consisted of an Eclipse Phase game on Friday night, followed by a 90 minute midnight walk home, and RuneQuest on Sunday.
Also, some political matters. I've recently delved into the fascinating debate of gun control with the United States especially in mind and have composed a short piece on Isocracy on the topic, Ending Homicide and the Right to Arms. One of the interesting facts about the topic is the strongest correlation with homicide is economic inequality, followed by gender inequality. The statistical reality is gun controls do reduce homicides and at a greater rate than the general fall experienced in OECD countries. People do tend to have opinions first and react to facts second, alas. Finally, and perversely appropriate, this Sunday I'll be presenting at the Unitarian Church on Remembering Martin Luther King, Jnr.
