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Diary of a B+ Grade Polymath ([personal profile] tcpip) wrote2016-08-19 09:52 pm

Training, Swordfighting, and Europe Trip

Wednesday was a training day for Edward to Spartan transition workshop, which went very smoothly and also had a visiting sysadmin of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (who, in his evening hours, was a lead Pirate Party Senate candidate in the state). Thursday was mostly spent at an Amazon scientific computing immersion day which regrettably contained too much marketing material, not enough compute time. It can be quite telling when a course is not designed by educators. Other major work-related events was the installation of a metric tonne of software - an interesting feature of EasyBuild - as more dependencies are installed, installation processes become easier.

Only one major gaming event this week, being GURPS Middle Earth last Sunday. In lieu of our regular game members of our mid-week group visited the Melbourne Swordplay Guild on invitation from [livejournal.com profile] kits_the_dm, to engage in some backsword immersion in preparation for playing some Backswords and Bucklers. Content for issue 31 of RPG Review has been positively powering along and it should be released this weekend.

As mentioned in passing, [livejournal.com profile] caseopaya and I are visiting Europe in two months. At least for one of us it's a working trip however. I currently have plans to visit the The Goethe Center for Scientific Computing, then the High Performance Computing Center of Stuttgart, then to the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, then on to CERN, before reaching Barcelona for the OpenStack Summit, and visiting the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. It is just as well I have concentrated on German, French, and Spanish in Duolingo in recent weeks. Yes, it is fair to say that there is a degree of excitement for this planned trip.
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[personal profile] helvetica 2016-08-19 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow your trip to Europe sounds especially amazing. It sounds like you have a very full schedule! How long are you staying in Europe?
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[personal profile] kaleidodope 2016-08-19 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You're going to Europe and I am experiencing jealousy. pics!!!! Pics of everything!
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[personal profile] vlion 2016-08-20 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I have found Amazon to be *profoundly* useless in its documentation, training, etc, outside of the raw API guides. I hate being marketed at. So when NewPeople join the team, I advise them to read the API docs for the services we use, they are smart and can connect the dots.

[identity profile] zenicurean.livejournal.com 2016-08-19 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a beautiful list of institutions to visit. I really hope you'll enjoy your visit to Europe!

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2016-08-20 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
It's not a bad trip, and I'm doing a lot of it by train. I would obviously like to stay longer and visit people (such as your good self), but alas, this is primarily for me a work trip.

Still, it also serves as a good scouting mission for a real holiday.

[identity profile] trar.livejournal.com 2016-08-24 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
CERN!!!!!!!!!!

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2016-08-24 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Not confirmed yet, but planned. Stuttgart, Freiburg, and Barcelona have confirmed however. Currently re-arranging timetable to get Montpellier into the list as well :)

It can be done!