Much of the past few days have been spent working on a rather onerous project management assignment for the hypothetical development of a Target UK branch, taking into account the interesting disaster that was Target Canada. The difficulty of the assignment was partially length, but also the required inclusion of a presentation and notes, which really wasn't necessary or appropriate. It wasn't helped by the course coordinator providing rather different suggestions on what the content should be in the assignment brief and in the class forums (if I ever do that, slap me with a fish).
Despite this still have managed to fit in a couple of social events this weekend, including attending Matt W's housewarming-cum-birthday in Carlton. A rather gorgeous modern two-story apartment with exceptional views of the inner northern suburbs. Good conversation and cheer from a gathering that started and ended relatively early (gone are the days when I'd go home as the birds were waking up, I suspect). The other gathering of note was today's gaming session of Eclipse Phase. The PC Proxies are having all sorts of external and internal trouble as war is hotting up, blackmail occurred and one of their party is revealed as a double, if not triple, agent, whilst at the same time arranging for a hive-mind community to potentially gain access to enhanced psychic powers. Sounds like an X-risk, right there. The session concluded with a Quentin Tarantino-like feel with a posse arranged with some itchy-trigger Sentinels.
Way back in the early 90s when I shared a dilapidated house with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
reddragdiva, I was introduced to a band called New Waver, whose EP Darwin Junior High really tickled my sense of cultural elitism. Since then they have do a magnificent set of altered covers, available on Bandcamp, Bohemian Suburb Rhaspody. Anyway, it was quite a pleasure to discover that the main force behind the project is now a lecturer in CompSci in the same building as I work in, so I spent a good couple of hours last week talking about culture and music with him - and I suspect more such discussions are around the corner. If only I had some artistic skill of my own I could contribute in a practical manner.
Despite this still have managed to fit in a couple of social events this weekend, including attending Matt W's housewarming-cum-birthday in Carlton. A rather gorgeous modern two-story apartment with exceptional views of the inner northern suburbs. Good conversation and cheer from a gathering that started and ended relatively early (gone are the days when I'd go home as the birds were waking up, I suspect). The other gathering of note was today's gaming session of Eclipse Phase. The PC Proxies are having all sorts of external and internal trouble as war is hotting up, blackmail occurred and one of their party is revealed as a double, if not triple, agent, whilst at the same time arranging for a hive-mind community to potentially gain access to enhanced psychic powers. Sounds like an X-risk, right there. The session concluded with a Quentin Tarantino-like feel with a posse arranged with some itchy-trigger Sentinels.
Way back in the early 90s when I shared a dilapidated house with
reddragdiva, I was introduced to a band called New Waver, whose EP Darwin Junior High really tickled my sense of cultural elitism. Since then they have do a magnificent set of altered covers, available on Bandcamp, Bohemian Suburb Rhaspody. Anyway, it was quite a pleasure to discover that the main force behind the project is now a lecturer in CompSci in the same building as I work in, so I spent a good couple of hours last week talking about culture and music with him - and I suspect more such discussions are around the corner. If only I had some artistic skill of my own I could contribute in a practical manner.