Pushing Limits

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Even my own standards the past few days and the next week or so are perhaps a little busier than what is really in the bounds of acceptable levels. I can only try to express the main items as dot points in an attempt to organise my thoughts. Once written down it doesn't seem too bad, really. Finish a 'zine, then two day-long programming workshops, a meeting with a political candidate, an address at a church, and then onto a plane to give a talk at an HPC conference at the other side of the country. Sure, I can do all this, right? Help?

• RPGs: Editing (and editorials) completed for RPG Review 43. Have written additional reviews of Time & Time Again and Timemaster. Have mostly completed the very last article, a reviw of Dr Who: Adventures in Time and Space. Should be out by Friday. Was informed today that my (older) reviews of Sandman: Map of Halaal and Amber: Diceless Roleplaying. It's good to have content there again after a year's absence. This Sunday is meant to be a special RuneQuest session for the UniMelb gaming club who are co-organisers of the RuneQuest Glorantha Con Down Under.



• HPC: Spent most of the day going through the OpenMP material for a course I'm running tomorrow on Parallel Processing. Will also need time to do extend the content I have for GPU Programming on Friday. This will take up what free time I have available tomorrow. On Monday I fly out to Perth to attend and present at the HPC-AI Advisory Council conference. Most of my material is ready for that, but can finish what needs to be done on the 'plane, right? Attended meeting of International HPC Certification Board yesterday. Was informed two days ago that my paper on how computers lie very fast was accepted for the Challenges in High Performance Computing conference at ANU the week after. Not sure what the funding situation is to send me the short distance.



• Politics and Secularism: Dinner meeting organised for Saturday night with Oliver Yates, independent liberal candidate for Kooyong who is taking on the Federal treasurer in the courts over deceptive advertising. Must confess I'm worried about attendance, a lot of people who usually attend said events can't make it. Visited Marg C., in her aged-care facility last night to collect a mountain of books, mainly politics, poetry, and secularism. A lifelong Unitarian, her 96-year old mind is sharp and clear, although her sight and hearing are beginning to slip and she's not steady on her feet anymore. On Sunday will be giving an address at the Unitarians on behalf of the Victorian Secular Lobby on Religious Freedom and Religious Charities.