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Puppet and Work, RPG Sales and Gaming
The past few days my time has been heavily taken up with Puppet training, courtesy of my employer. It's one of those tools that I use on occasion but haven't ever had the opportunity to sit down and investigate in real detail over several days. The principle is, of course, excellent - use of a declarative language (with imperative components for conditional statements and branching) for automated deployments - which of course has implemented by other configuration tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Salt). It has its quirks, such as different relationships which do the same thing which is not, in my opinion, a good design. But all this said I'm actually enjoying the course a great deal, even if I'm in the other end of the classroom for a change. More tangential was catching up with Liz B., and Karl B., at a rather fascinating presentation on Epilepsy and Brain Machine Interfaces by some visiting Japanese professors with the curious discovery that amputees who use mental control of robotic limbs still experience phantom pain.
In other work-related activities, I've blogged my attendance at the European two conferences last year (ISC and TERATEC: A Tale of Two Conferences, using mostly the same content as my talk to Linux Users of Victoria late last year. As a related issue, this Sunday was the annual Linux Users of Victoria Penguin Picnic. It was a little warm for the traditional BBQ so we actually spent it indoors at InfoXchange with cold foods, and we took the opportunity to play some Munchkin as well. It was a good follow-up to our regular CheeseQuest with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hathhalla and ser_pounce the previous day where we managed to get through two chapters of Mice and Mystics.
In other gaming-related news there's been a flurry of activity on the RPG Review Cooperative Quicksales store following the posting of some new items. Whilst the RPG Review Cooperative library has been fully entered (at 677 items) there is really no need for my personal collection to be six times that size. My personal investments in quality RPG games has been quite successful and it really is time to share some of those choices around. As for RPG actual play, the only event this week was a game of Megatraveller which involved our group capturing space pirates (of given that we're space pirates too, the morality of our actions is entirely partisan). Still, there will be more Megatraveller action this week, followed by some Eclipse Phase, and if I work hard on it tonight, I should get my Whispering Muse submission completed.
In other work-related activities, I've blogged my attendance at the European two conferences last year (ISC and TERATEC: A Tale of Two Conferences, using mostly the same content as my talk to Linux Users of Victoria late last year. As a related issue, this Sunday was the annual Linux Users of Victoria Penguin Picnic. It was a little warm for the traditional BBQ so we actually spent it indoors at InfoXchange with cold foods, and we took the opportunity to play some Munchkin as well. It was a good follow-up to our regular CheeseQuest with
hathhalla and ser_pounce the previous day where we managed to get through two chapters of Mice and Mystics.In other gaming-related news there's been a flurry of activity on the RPG Review Cooperative Quicksales store following the posting of some new items. Whilst the RPG Review Cooperative library has been fully entered (at 677 items) there is really no need for my personal collection to be six times that size. My personal investments in quality RPG games has been quite successful and it really is time to share some of those choices around. As for RPG actual play, the only event this week was a game of Megatraveller which involved our group capturing space pirates (of given that we're space pirates too, the morality of our actions is entirely partisan). Still, there will be more Megatraveller action this week, followed by some Eclipse Phase, and if I work hard on it tonight, I should get my Whispering Muse submission completed.