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Lingering Malady, Courses, Genre Fiction
Sep. 8th, 2018 11:53 amAnnoyingly I still have the (hopefully) tail-end of bronchitis, which apparently includes a thumping headache, which isn't quite as bad as having trying to breath through lungs full of fluid. For me the most frustrating thing about all this is the dent that it's placed on my productivity and the unfortunate timing with several bigger projects that need attention. I have been fortunate in this regard that other people have stepped in and taken up some of the immediate tasks that require doing, so in part my concerns are more low-level anxiety rather than a complete disaster.
One thing I did manage to achieve was conducting a training day on Friday for Introduction to High Performance Computing Using Spartan. It was a full class and it went reasonably well, although there's a couple of bugs in my sample NAMD job which require fixing - probably just the wrong version of the application. I have courses booked for Friday's for the rest of the month, and probably for the rest of the year given how long the waiting list is. In other education-related matters, finished the extended Esperanto course on Duolingo yesterday and will see if I can get the same done for Spanish this week.
As usual, have had a regular gaming sessoin this week of Megatraveller. Session involved travelling to Neumann to either aid or prevent a scientist for applying a patch to an existing grey goo event, which would either save or destroy the planet (killing billions). By virtue of a pure dice roll at the end it saved the planet, fulfilling a prophecy of our own creation. On a related matter last night binged on Z Nation, which is hardly gripping and full of terrible plot holes (yet a good premise), designed for some amusing set-pieces.
One thing I did manage to achieve was conducting a training day on Friday for Introduction to High Performance Computing Using Spartan. It was a full class and it went reasonably well, although there's a couple of bugs in my sample NAMD job which require fixing - probably just the wrong version of the application. I have courses booked for Friday's for the rest of the month, and probably for the rest of the year given how long the waiting list is. In other education-related matters, finished the extended Esperanto course on Duolingo yesterday and will see if I can get the same done for Spanish this week.
As usual, have had a regular gaming sessoin this week of Megatraveller. Session involved travelling to Neumann to either aid or prevent a scientist for applying a patch to an existing grey goo event, which would either save or destroy the planet (killing billions). By virtue of a pure dice roll at the end it saved the planet, fulfilling a prophecy of our own creation. On a related matter last night binged on Z Nation, which is hardly gripping and full of terrible plot holes (yet a good premise), designed for some amusing set-pieces.
