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tcpipThere are many occasions where I am quite pleased in my profession. A recent example is the cracking of the Zodiac cipher on Spartan, an announcement that has made quite an impact in the international news. I confess that I was aware of it a week ago, but for obvious reasons, I've waited for the official announcement by the FBI before commenting. Personally, I think medical and engineering research is more important, but this is something that attracts the public eye. Also on the work front on Friday, I hosted a staff meeting following an extensive and detailed survey on return-to-office arrangements for 2021. Not terribly surprising to me, most IT workers feel that their productivity improves when working-from-home which is borne out by most studies, especially due to a lack of interruptions. I understand that those workers (i.e., middle-management) who depend on visual supervision of a workforce and face-to-face conversations have found the circumstances difficult. Finally, I have spent a good portion of the past work-week testing, patching. and converting a rather impressive collection of bioinformatics tutorials from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences to HPC jobs. It's actually all been very rewarding, psychologically speaking.
As one could expect the next couple of weeks will comments about the Cyberpunk 2020: Year of the Stainless Steel Rat convention in each and every post. I was really happy to announce Jason Scott as a speaker. With two weeks to go, I am powering my way writing the second Papers & Paychecks supplement, "Emails & Direct Deposits", a biopunk-horror supplement that will be ready for the convention. The conference also gives the opportunity for two issues of RPG Review, one for the conference proceedings, and one for the RPG sessions and characters. In actual play, I'm about to engage in some Cyberpunk 2020 and RuneQuest today, following a face-to-face cardgame session on Thursday evening of Debunked and Guillotine. Further, my reviews of Star Trek (FASA edition) and Star Wars (WEG edition are both in rpg.net now.
Following the plastering of five-year-old holes in our ceiling and various chips in our stairwell, yesterday we had the same people over to sand and paint their work. Even with drop sheets and subsequent sweeping the place still has plaster dust everywhere generating some pretty horrible sinus headaches as a result. I suspect it's going to take me a good week or two to clean up. For her part,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya is travelling to Western Australia on Tuesday for the Christmas break whilst I will remain here. Universities miss out on a lot of state public holidays doing a year and I have to take a couple of days annual leave meaning that I effectively have (with three days exception) a three-and-a-half week holiday coming up. Most of it, I suspect, I will be spending alone. However, despite my gregarious nature, I did discover some decades ago that I like my own company; "Si vous vous sentez seul quand vous êtes seul, vous êtes en mauvaise compagnie". Probably because I have so much that I still want to do.
As one could expect the next couple of weeks will comments about the Cyberpunk 2020: Year of the Stainless Steel Rat convention in each and every post. I was really happy to announce Jason Scott as a speaker. With two weeks to go, I am powering my way writing the second Papers & Paychecks supplement, "Emails & Direct Deposits", a biopunk-horror supplement that will be ready for the convention. The conference also gives the opportunity for two issues of RPG Review, one for the conference proceedings, and one for the RPG sessions and characters. In actual play, I'm about to engage in some Cyberpunk 2020 and RuneQuest today, following a face-to-face cardgame session on Thursday evening of Debunked and Guillotine. Further, my reviews of Star Trek (FASA edition) and Star Wars (WEG edition are both in rpg.net now.
Following the plastering of five-year-old holes in our ceiling and various chips in our stairwell, yesterday we had the same people over to sand and paint their work. Even with drop sheets and subsequent sweeping the place still has plaster dust everywhere generating some pretty horrible sinus headaches as a result. I suspect it's going to take me a good week or two to clean up. For her part,
caseopaya is travelling to Western Australia on Tuesday for the Christmas break whilst I will remain here. Universities miss out on a lot of state public holidays doing a year and I have to take a couple of days annual leave meaning that I effectively have (with three days exception) a three-and-a-half week holiday coming up. Most of it, I suspect, I will be spending alone. However, despite my gregarious nature, I did discover some decades ago that I like my own company; "Si vous vous sentez seul quand vous êtes seul, vous êtes en mauvaise compagnie". Probably because I have so much that I still want to do.