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Lectures and Aesthetics
Mar. 19th, 2024 01:44 pmThe past week, in addition to my usual work, has consisted of my annual series of five guest lectures for the UniMelb master's level course, "Cluster and Cloud Computing" which covers supercomputing from a high level, the local system, job submission, parallel programming, more than enough Python, and a modicum of Linux commands. The course coordinator and I had some discussions about how the education system is prepared to teach the intricacies of object-orientated programming, but core operating system commands are learned by osmosis. After all this comes the marking of the 380 students enrolled this year. In addition, I have three days of workshops to run next week, with much greater detail and with the addition of regular expressions into the mix.
I have been blessed by a few occasions this week with a visit of my dear Darwin friend, Lara D. Hilariously, we met at the airport at 12.30am on Saturday morning, as her plane from Darwin arrived at the same time as mine did from Townsville. Shortly afterward we found ourselves visiting the Triennial exhibition for what must be the fourth time or so for myself and later in the week it was off to the Da Vinci (and friends) exhibition at Lume, which is another impressive show (although I twitched a bit on a misattributed quote, which is sloppy of them), with VR flyovers, drawing classes, a lovely cafe, and Lume's signature immersive experience of art and music, in this case mainly 19th and 20th century Italian operatic.
On a more culinary and personal aesthetic dimension I hosted a very nice dinner for Liana F., Julie A., and Erica H., during the week which included confit byaldi, the signature dish from the film "Ratatouille", which turned out pretty well for my first attempt at this; it looks fancy, but it's pretty straight-forward). Another event of note was attending Anthony L's wonderful annual gathering at "Life's Too Short", attending with Ruby M. We took the opportunity to visit the NGV at Federation Square beforehand with the wide collection from the Joseph Brown collection. Anthony, as host of his event, noted that it was International Submarine Day and offered plentiful AUKUS-based "yellow submarine" cocktails (rum, tequila, citrus, with more than a dash of imperialism). It dovetailed well with my attendance the day prior at a Labor Against War meeting with former Qld Senator Margaret Reynolds visiting in support.
I have been blessed by a few occasions this week with a visit of my dear Darwin friend, Lara D. Hilariously, we met at the airport at 12.30am on Saturday morning, as her plane from Darwin arrived at the same time as mine did from Townsville. Shortly afterward we found ourselves visiting the Triennial exhibition for what must be the fourth time or so for myself and later in the week it was off to the Da Vinci (and friends) exhibition at Lume, which is another impressive show (although I twitched a bit on a misattributed quote, which is sloppy of them), with VR flyovers, drawing classes, a lovely cafe, and Lume's signature immersive experience of art and music, in this case mainly 19th and 20th century Italian operatic.
On a more culinary and personal aesthetic dimension I hosted a very nice dinner for Liana F., Julie A., and Erica H., during the week which included confit byaldi, the signature dish from the film "Ratatouille", which turned out pretty well for my first attempt at this; it looks fancy, but it's pretty straight-forward). Another event of note was attending Anthony L's wonderful annual gathering at "Life's Too Short", attending with Ruby M. We took the opportunity to visit the NGV at Federation Square beforehand with the wide collection from the Joseph Brown collection. Anthony, as host of his event, noted that it was International Submarine Day and offered plentiful AUKUS-based "yellow submarine" cocktails (rum, tequila, citrus, with more than a dash of imperialism). It dovetailed well with my attendance the day prior at a Labor Against War meeting with former Qld Senator Margaret Reynolds visiting in support.
