SciFi, Studies et al.
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funontheupfield of a pair of scifi classics (and I do mean 'scifi', as distinct from 'science fiction'), Forbidden Planet and The Green Slime. The first is a nice psychodrama with some rather well-done special effects for the time, albeit with a couple of corny components (the heroine's dress could not get shorter), whereas the other had an excellent concept for the monster and all the makings of a good sf-horror flick, but had astoundingly bad special effects, and an utterly terrible romantic tension subplot. Still from such nonsense good works can arise, and I can't help feeling that a more contemporary production could give the core concepts some justice.
As can be expected studies roll at their usual pace. Today, before rushing off to the cinema, gave a two-hour guest lecture to the postgraduate course Cluster and Cloud Computing. There were around 300+ people who had to put up with my voice for that period, and they managed to get some good questions in at the end. On-topic also discovered that I had another (short) paper published in the Journal of Computer Science Education on Towards An HPC Certification Program. Appropriately have been doing more work on that regard with the head of the education and training program from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.
It comes on receiving my grade for last term's course for my MSc, a first/distinction which I should be happy with. I've also managed to get a good part of my mid-term assignment done for the next part of that course as well as doing some of the weekly work for the MHed, and making good progress for the GradDipEcon - who would have thought I would finish the microeconomics component first? Finally, I must mention I caught up briefly withclaudine_c; it must be close to thirty years now that I've known her, initially through the UniMelb French Club (of all things), then through Linux Users of Victoria, and once I managed to get her to give an address at the Unitarian Church on her work in India. We keep finding our paths crossing in a good way every few years.
funontheupfield of a pair of scifi classics (and I do mean 'scifi', as distinct from 'science fiction'), Forbidden Planet and The Green Slime. The first is a nice psychodrama with some rather well-done special effects for the time, albeit with a couple of corny components (the heroine's dress could not get shorter), whereas the other had an excellent concept for the monster and all the makings of a good sf-horror flick, but had astoundingly bad special effects, and an utterly terrible romantic tension subplot. Still from such nonsense good works can arise, and I can't help feeling that a more contemporary production could give the core concepts some justice.As can be expected studies roll at their usual pace. Today, before rushing off to the cinema, gave a two-hour guest lecture to the postgraduate course Cluster and Cloud Computing. There were around 300+ people who had to put up with my voice for that period, and they managed to get some good questions in at the end. On-topic also discovered that I had another (short) paper published in the Journal of Computer Science Education on Towards An HPC Certification Program. Appropriately have been doing more work on that regard with the head of the education and training program from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.
It comes on receiving my grade for last term's course for my MSc, a first/distinction which I should be happy with. I've also managed to get a good part of my mid-term assignment done for the next part of that course as well as doing some of the weekly work for the MHed, and making good progress for the GradDipEcon - who would have thought I would finish the microeconomics component first? Finally, I must mention I caught up briefly with
claudine_c; it must be close to thirty years now that I've known her, initially through the UniMelb French Club (of all things), then through Linux Users of Victoria, and once I managed to get her to give an address at the Unitarian Church on her work in India. We keep finding our paths crossing in a good way every few years.
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