A Week of Scattered Activities
May. 13th, 2019 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipApart from the structured environment of work, my most focussed activity of the past week has been the Federal election which I've been watching with a serious and slightly nervous eye. As usual I've been recording major events on my Isocracy 'blog every couple of days, although one item that hasn't been added (can't be too parochial) is the local cross-preferencing between Labor, the Greens, and an independent ex-Liberal which means that the blue-ribbon Tory seat of Kooyong is likely to fall to the Greens. It's well deserved really; Frydenberg's economic management as the national treasurer has been appallingly bad, and there's nothing good to be said about his party's record on climate change, refugees, or LGBTI rights, which are major issues in this solid liberal seat.
On Saturday I hosted the annual general meeting of the Victorian Secular Lobby, which was addressed by Terry Laidler, who spoke a on the Cardinal Pell sex-abuse case and the hierarchical power structure within such organisations which leads to such behaviour and cover-ups being depressingly common. There was a lengthy discussion after Terry's address (it was remarkable that he attended, given that his brother had died the day before) concerning the Lobby's immediate activities - equal taxation of commercial activities owned by religions, and a submission to the mental health Royal Commission.
Other activities included finishing my final assignment for the penultimate course in my MSc in Information Systems, glad to get that out of the way. I've been particularly uninspired by this particular course, now only one unit (and a thesis and residency) to go. Also confirmed this week that I am now an official Software Carpentry instructor, after being on the waiting list for five years; good to finally get that done.
I ran a game of Eclipse Phase on Sunday as the Proxies and their Sentinels try to hunt down a "Thing-like" beast which doesn't have the obvious signature of the famous monster. Hunting monsters of a different sort on Thursday played in a session of LexOccultum which included various investigations before a cliff-hanger encounter with a werewolf; this mini-campaign to be concluded next week presumably with The Big Fight(TM). This week I'll put together the very late edition of RPG Review Issue 42.
On Saturday I hosted the annual general meeting of the Victorian Secular Lobby, which was addressed by Terry Laidler, who spoke a on the Cardinal Pell sex-abuse case and the hierarchical power structure within such organisations which leads to such behaviour and cover-ups being depressingly common. There was a lengthy discussion after Terry's address (it was remarkable that he attended, given that his brother had died the day before) concerning the Lobby's immediate activities - equal taxation of commercial activities owned by religions, and a submission to the mental health Royal Commission.
Other activities included finishing my final assignment for the penultimate course in my MSc in Information Systems, glad to get that out of the way. I've been particularly uninspired by this particular course, now only one unit (and a thesis and residency) to go. Also confirmed this week that I am now an official Software Carpentry instructor, after being on the waiting list for five years; good to finally get that done.
I ran a game of Eclipse Phase on Sunday as the Proxies and their Sentinels try to hunt down a "Thing-like" beast which doesn't have the obvious signature of the famous monster. Hunting monsters of a different sort on Thursday played in a session of LexOccultum which included various investigations before a cliff-hanger encounter with a werewolf; this mini-campaign to be concluded next week presumably with The Big Fight(TM). This week I'll put together the very late edition of RPG Review Issue 42.
