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It is not that often that RPG activities take top rank on my semi-regular journal entries, but this week one of my regular groups has started to put together a mashup of two old ICE products, Tod Foley's Cyberspace and Monte Cook's Dark Space, with the sort of thematic content that one finds in Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker. People are pretty enthusiastic about it and best still, Tod Foley himself has joined the mailing list and is contributing as well. Todd is of the opinion that we should publish the result and I've insisted that he is listed as a co-author. In other gaming related news, we finished our regular Lex Occultum game on Thursday night, not a bad setting (1640s France) or style (low fantasy horror), but a rather crunchy system. Fundraising for Medicines sans Frontiers continues, and this week also saw a shipment to Noble Knight in the US with 30 copies of Papers & Paychecks and Cow-Orkers in the Scary Devil Monastery.
Two work-related presentations of note this week. The first was a day workshop of high performance computing for mechanical engineers. The second was a presentation to the International HPC Certification Forum workshop on the ecosystem between HPC Educators, curriculum, and certification skills and knowledges. Both went quite well, although it is the latter than must develop with input from others. The Forum, less than a score of regular participants, cannot hope to provide a certification to thousands of HPC centres without their input. Also, rather late to the party to do this, I also now have installed MINIX with an interest in comparing the functionality and kernel differences between it and Linux, apropos a very famous debate.
Apart from that I'm planning to finish a draft for my Masters in Higher Education assignment; a research grant proposal, and at least have managed a broad outline on the subject. Thursday's tutorial went reasonably well, although we concentrated a lot more on a reading on ethics rather than a discussion on the assignment. In addition, I've been powering away on Duolingo over the past couple of days and have found myself on top of the Diamond League. Will I still be there on Monday morning when the week ends? Having engaged in it this obsessively I may as well keep going to the finish line. After that I will return to my normal pace.
Two work-related presentations of note this week. The first was a day workshop of high performance computing for mechanical engineers. The second was a presentation to the International HPC Certification Forum workshop on the ecosystem between HPC Educators, curriculum, and certification skills and knowledges. Both went quite well, although it is the latter than must develop with input from others. The Forum, less than a score of regular participants, cannot hope to provide a certification to thousands of HPC centres without their input. Also, rather late to the party to do this, I also now have installed MINIX with an interest in comparing the functionality and kernel differences between it and Linux, apropos a very famous debate.
Apart from that I'm planning to finish a draft for my Masters in Higher Education assignment; a research grant proposal, and at least have managed a broad outline on the subject. Thursday's tutorial went reasonably well, although we concentrated a lot more on a reading on ethics rather than a discussion on the assignment. In addition, I've been powering away on Duolingo over the past couple of days and have found myself on top of the Diamond League. Will I still be there on Monday morning when the week ends? Having engaged in it this obsessively I may as well keep going to the finish line. After that I will return to my normal pace.
