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Being stuck in Canberra due to a cancelled flight with "engineering problems" didn't turn out quite so bad at all, although I am yet to go through what will the be the tiresome process of regaining compensation. Caught up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_shadow298 for lunch, whom I hadn't seen in literal years, and we took the opportunity to chat about politics and people, visit bookstores, and the Canberra Museum and Gallery, which had a quite good collection of Sidney Nolan paintings, which of course generated a discussion on abstract versus figurative expressionism and hyper-realism. There was a charming collection of "primary school Nolans" which could at least match his technique, if not the creativity (they were copies of what they'd seen). That evening went out to dinner with Zoe B., and discussed a mutual interest in high performance computing and the representation of reals in computing systems. It was the first time we'd actually met in person after a few years of knowing each other online.
The following day started what would be a rapid succession of material on Rocknerd, mainly content that I've meaning to write for a while (I have an extensive, but not impossible, "to do" list) and thought it best to hammer it out whilst in the mood. This ended up including a review of Underworld at the Sydney Opera House, a review of The Cure at the Sydney Opera House, and finally, a review of Tears for Fears Rule The World greatest hits album.
In work-related activity, I've just announced the September workshops for Introduction to Linux and HPC and Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting for HPC. In addition, met with the organiser of the First International Conference on Education and Outreach in Data Science and HPC, and in an entirely unsurprising move, joined the committee for running that show, which will incorporate the AU-NZ HPC Educators group, initiated by yours truly. In utterly non-related activities, I was on Radio Skid Row (pre-recorded) today, discussing the philosophy and political theory of Hannah Arendt, as I sometimes do.
the_shadow298 for lunch, whom I hadn't seen in literal years, and we took the opportunity to chat about politics and people, visit bookstores, and the Canberra Museum and Gallery, which had a quite good collection of Sidney Nolan paintings, which of course generated a discussion on abstract versus figurative expressionism and hyper-realism. There was a charming collection of "primary school Nolans" which could at least match his technique, if not the creativity (they were copies of what they'd seen). That evening went out to dinner with Zoe B., and discussed a mutual interest in high performance computing and the representation of reals in computing systems. It was the first time we'd actually met in person after a few years of knowing each other online.The following day started what would be a rapid succession of material on Rocknerd, mainly content that I've meaning to write for a while (I have an extensive, but not impossible, "to do" list) and thought it best to hammer it out whilst in the mood. This ended up including a review of Underworld at the Sydney Opera House, a review of The Cure at the Sydney Opera House, and finally, a review of Tears for Fears Rule The World greatest hits album.
In work-related activity, I've just announced the September workshops for Introduction to Linux and HPC and Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting for HPC. In addition, met with the organiser of the First International Conference on Education and Outreach in Data Science and HPC, and in an entirely unsurprising move, joined the committee for running that show, which will incorporate the AU-NZ HPC Educators group, initiated by yours truly. In utterly non-related activities, I was on Radio Skid Row (pre-recorded) today, discussing the philosophy and political theory of Hannah Arendt, as I sometimes do.
