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tcpipThe past few days we've had the august presence of John August of the Pirate Party, whose doing a bit of road trip around the major cities of SE Australia. He's had quite an agenda of numerous organisations to visit, being quite the activist, and we've had a number of social events to engage in. Nevertheless, we did manage to get in a trip to the Abbotsford Convent, a number of interviews for Radio Skidrow (on Arthurian legend, the conflict between contemporary studies in business and economics, and Hannah Arendt's views on totalitarianism and evil), and of course, a tour of the Willsere Estate. Apropos the later, I've transferred a stack of posts from the former website I had for the said location to a 'blog on my own website.
Whilst engaging in the estate tour we were joined by Robbie and Eddie. A few months back they were married and, being a bit older, they didn't want any more stuff as wedding presents. Instead, they wished for people to provide something from the aesthetic realm, which included meals ("we both like food, but not making it"). Well, true to my inner restaurant chef that never had a chance to flourish, I went for providing a three-course cuisine provencale of hearty peasant food (soupe à l'oignon, crêpes fourrée coq au vin, pêche cardinal, etc), with matched drinks (concluding with Grand Marnier), and provided with their own laminated copy of the menu to take home. As can be imagined, we went quite late into the night.
It was actually the second-wedding related activity for the day; earlier we had the opportunity to travel up to Healesville Animal Sanctuary to witness the wedding of Matt M and Anna H., with David Ayliffe acting as celebrant (the second marriage from my recommendation in as many months!). There's a video of the proceedings available on Youtube, but special highlights must include the hair-cutting for charity and the personal vows which Rick-Rolled the audience (which worked a charm for most of the people present and left the people outside of the age-range of the meme wondering why the others were laughing). The newly-weds are, also residents of Willsmere are there were a few people from said location present.
Finally, I've managed to get a couple of gaming sessions in the past few days. On Sunday there was the continuing drama of Eclipse Phase where the PC proxies and sentinels make their way to the depths of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to discover the production of another TITAN AI; just what they need. Impressive to see how transferring through gates and morphs in rapid succession can wreak havoc on the mind in the game, especially if it is exotic morphs. On Thursday played a session of Megatraveller, where we "privateers" continue to have to play off more powerful forces around us, whilst simultaneously encountering increasingly dangerous technology. This could all go off with quite a bang.
Whilst engaging in the estate tour we were joined by Robbie and Eddie. A few months back they were married and, being a bit older, they didn't want any more stuff as wedding presents. Instead, they wished for people to provide something from the aesthetic realm, which included meals ("we both like food, but not making it"). Well, true to my inner restaurant chef that never had a chance to flourish, I went for providing a three-course cuisine provencale of hearty peasant food (soupe à l'oignon, crêpes fourrée coq au vin, pêche cardinal, etc), with matched drinks (concluding with Grand Marnier), and provided with their own laminated copy of the menu to take home. As can be imagined, we went quite late into the night.
It was actually the second-wedding related activity for the day; earlier we had the opportunity to travel up to Healesville Animal Sanctuary to witness the wedding of Matt M and Anna H., with David Ayliffe acting as celebrant (the second marriage from my recommendation in as many months!). There's a video of the proceedings available on Youtube, but special highlights must include the hair-cutting for charity and the personal vows which Rick-Rolled the audience (which worked a charm for most of the people present and left the people outside of the age-range of the meme wondering why the others were laughing). The newly-weds are, also residents of Willsmere are there were a few people from said location present.
Finally, I've managed to get a couple of gaming sessions in the past few days. On Sunday there was the continuing drama of Eclipse Phase where the PC proxies and sentinels make their way to the depths of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to discover the production of another TITAN AI; just what they need. Impressive to see how transferring through gates and morphs in rapid succession can wreak havoc on the mind in the game, especially if it is exotic morphs. On Thursday played a session of Megatraveller, where we "privateers" continue to have to play off more powerful forces around us, whilst simultaneously encountering increasingly dangerous technology. This could all go off with quite a bang.
