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tcpipHosted a Sysadmin Training Day for new and interested Spartan and GPGPU sysadmins and power users; was expected around a dozen people and ended up having close to twenty. It went really well, with others making very worthwhile contributions. I get the sense there is good potential for a working team to come out of this - and just in time, I completed two internal courses at work, Mentoring Others and Building and Managing Teams. Despite being short, both had utterly superb signal-to-noise ratios, and with immediate practical use - much better than most of the facilitated courses that I've been to over the years.
I haven't bee well enough to get out much this week after hours, and as result have only played Eclipse Phase via video conferencing. Nevertheless my writing output has been pretty consistent; finally managed to give a summary for the Eclipse Phase Rimward and Return story which ended in a TPK, and the fourth chapter of the Dungeons & Dragons Vassals of Giselbert historical fantasy which was very heavy certain incidents of Germanic history. In addition, have taken the loose reigns of RPG Review 38 and have written reviews of the classic Star Trek Basic Game by FASA, as well as ICE's SpaceMaster. Both reviews are close to 2000 words apiece. Apart from that I've been making ample usage of the new "crown" system in Duolingo. Hopefully, I'll finish the Dutch tree before I step on the plane.
Recent events in Syria have proven interesting to say the least, starting with the suspected chemical attack in Duoma, followed by Russia using veto in the UN Security Council on a investigation on who could have carried it out, then the US-led strike against suspected chemical weapon facilities, then the medics are intimidated, the inspectors are prevented on reaching the site, and when the finally try to, they are shot at. Meanwhile, there's an amazing amount of complete nonsense in social media about these events, most of which comes under the category of tribalist fake news (people like to believe they are 'in' on a conspiracy). A steafast committment to deliberative analysis remains the boring, but accurate, method of evaluation.
I haven't bee well enough to get out much this week after hours, and as result have only played Eclipse Phase via video conferencing. Nevertheless my writing output has been pretty consistent; finally managed to give a summary for the Eclipse Phase Rimward and Return story which ended in a TPK, and the fourth chapter of the Dungeons & Dragons Vassals of Giselbert historical fantasy which was very heavy certain incidents of Germanic history. In addition, have taken the loose reigns of RPG Review 38 and have written reviews of the classic Star Trek Basic Game by FASA, as well as ICE's SpaceMaster. Both reviews are close to 2000 words apiece. Apart from that I've been making ample usage of the new "crown" system in Duolingo. Hopefully, I'll finish the Dutch tree before I step on the plane.
Recent events in Syria have proven interesting to say the least, starting with the suspected chemical attack in Duoma, followed by Russia using veto in the UN Security Council on a investigation on who could have carried it out, then the US-led strike against suspected chemical weapon facilities, then the medics are intimidated, the inspectors are prevented on reaching the site, and when the finally try to, they are shot at. Meanwhile, there's an amazing amount of complete nonsense in social media about these events, most of which comes under the category of tribalist fake news (people like to believe they are 'in' on a conspiracy). A steafast committment to deliberative analysis remains the boring, but accurate, method of evaluation.
