Films, Gaming, and Philosophy
Jun. 11th, 2018 08:37 pmCurious facts about the long weekend. Unlike other state holidays, this Queens Birthday holiday is celebrated by the University of Melbourne not that it's Lizzie's birthday anyway (that's April 21st). Interestingly, we don't have labour day. Although if we really wanted to we could have an 8-hour day holiday to (kinda-sorta) coincide with the real Queen's birthday. But the practical upshot is it's been a long weekend, and I have spent it in a somewhat relaxing manner.
Over in Facebook-land I was tagged in a meme for one's ten most influential films. To date I have listed Ratatouille (2007), Novo Centro (1976) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). When I've finished the top-ten over there I'll 'blog here with summaries, rather like the Ten Books That Made Me meme from a couple of years ago. Appropriately went to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at The Astor on Saturday night, a 50th anniversary screening with 70mm film. It was really quite remarkable seeing this great film at the last of the grand single-screen theatres and the print really made a difference to the resolution.
Apart from that I've had a bit of gaming related activity over the weekend, including a new scene for my ongoing (eleven years now!) HeroQuest Glorantha game, and running a session of Eclipse Phase where the Sentinels have had their first encounter with a TITAN (based on a real world supecomputer facility). Also briefly caught up with fellow gamer![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ariaflame who is visiting interstate for a science fiction convention.
Finally, have spent more than a few hours today plodding away on a couple of philosophy papers. One, unsurprisingly, is Transparency and Immersion in User Experiences for High Performance Computing which I'll be presenting in the Netherlands in a few weeks. The other I'm dusting off a fairly lengthy piece I wrote for a presentation to The Philosophy Forum a year ago on The Ontology and Epistemology of Race Theory to submit to the Pathways to Philosophy journal.
Over in Facebook-land I was tagged in a meme for one's ten most influential films. To date I have listed Ratatouille (2007), Novo Centro (1976) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). When I've finished the top-ten over there I'll 'blog here with summaries, rather like the Ten Books That Made Me meme from a couple of years ago. Appropriately went to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at The Astor on Saturday night, a 50th anniversary screening with 70mm film. It was really quite remarkable seeing this great film at the last of the grand single-screen theatres and the print really made a difference to the resolution.
Apart from that I've had a bit of gaming related activity over the weekend, including a new scene for my ongoing (eleven years now!) HeroQuest Glorantha game, and running a session of Eclipse Phase where the Sentinels have had their first encounter with a TITAN (based on a real world supecomputer facility). Also briefly caught up with fellow gamer
ariaflame who is visiting interstate for a science fiction convention.Finally, have spent more than a few hours today plodding away on a couple of philosophy papers. One, unsurprisingly, is Transparency and Immersion in User Experiences for High Performance Computing which I'll be presenting in the Netherlands in a few weeks. The other I'm dusting off a fairly lengthy piece I wrote for a presentation to The Philosophy Forum a year ago on The Ontology and Epistemology of Race Theory to submit to the Pathways to Philosophy journal.
