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Employment Changes, Land Tax, Labor for Refugees, Beowulf, Gaming, Numbers
Well, I was a pleasant part-time working situation. However in the past couple of weeks I've picked up two major contracts. So now I'm working about 55 hours/week and my probable annual income looking, ahhh, quite high. Certainly an extraordinary turn-around from six months ago. Nevertheless, the time constrains means that something obviously has to go, and sadly I suspect it's going to be the community research organisation, Borderlands.
Just had another letter published in The Age today over land tax, under the title A dumb deal must not kill a good tax, following an article from the previous day.
Had dinner last night with a member of the NSW Right, who is a co-convenor of Labor for Refugees over there. At last, some national face-to-face meeting! We reached the agreement to push the national co-ordination issue and raise the idea of a national plebiscite on refugee issues (that should scare the pants of the party hierarchy). We also have Laurie Ferguson in our sights after publically promoting policy that is worse that the Labor Party's official refugee policy. Honestly, Petro Georgiou is better than Labor's shadow minister on immigration. As an aside to all this, I'm speaking at an anti-war rally on March 18th at the State Library in my capacity as convenor of Labor for Refugees.
Regrettably missed![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bar_bar_ella's birthday drinks last Saturday, but did make it to horngirl's with severina_242. Lots of enjoyable discussion. Also managed (finally!) to get to visit missmalice and hand on a swag of computer books to her partner, who seems to know what he's doing. Met their adorable rodents.
Was going to attend Beowulf on Tuesday eve but the theatre company has sold our pre-purchased tickets (we were late, but still). Ran into Johan Scheffer, a local MP, after this incident who considered a little illegal, so I rang consumer affairs the following day - two tickets are being held for Saturday.
On a very related thread to Beowulf, gaming is going well.caseopaya, strangedave, jazzyjay all making excellent contributions, as is Andrew L (non-livejournal, amazing). The illusion seems more or less complete - behind the narrative it may actually amaze some people but I actually have a system (of sorts) running. I should have a fifth scene up this weekend, and although I haven't done anything for it yet, I've started the livejournal community ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
runequest. Let's hack that third edition into something brilliant.
In other news, I conducted the service at the Unitarian's last Sunday. I used the example of the Canadian Unitarian Church offering sanctuary to asylum seekers in the opening words, a reading on the establishment of the Unitarian Service Committe, who provided safe passage for refugees from Nazi Germany from inside Czechoslavakia, and a combined Thomas Jefferson quote in the closing words; "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither... Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"
Recent brain-breaker award goes tojahbulon. Pythagoras once claimed "all is numbers", and as a Little black box predicts the occurrence of major world events such as 9/11 and tsunami, he might be right.
Just had another letter published in The Age today over land tax, under the title A dumb deal must not kill a good tax, following an article from the previous day.
Had dinner last night with a member of the NSW Right, who is a co-convenor of Labor for Refugees over there. At last, some national face-to-face meeting! We reached the agreement to push the national co-ordination issue and raise the idea of a national plebiscite on refugee issues (that should scare the pants of the party hierarchy). We also have Laurie Ferguson in our sights after publically promoting policy that is worse that the Labor Party's official refugee policy. Honestly, Petro Georgiou is better than Labor's shadow minister on immigration. As an aside to all this, I'm speaking at an anti-war rally on March 18th at the State Library in my capacity as convenor of Labor for Refugees.
Regrettably missed
bar_bar_ella's birthday drinks last Saturday, but did make it to horngirl's with severina_242. Lots of enjoyable discussion. Also managed (finally!) to get to visit missmalice and hand on a swag of computer books to her partner, who seems to know what he's doing. Met their adorable rodents. Was going to attend Beowulf on Tuesday eve but the theatre company has sold our pre-purchased tickets (we were late, but still). Ran into Johan Scheffer, a local MP, after this incident who considered a little illegal, so I rang consumer affairs the following day - two tickets are being held for Saturday.
On a very related thread to Beowulf, gaming is going well.
caseopaya, strangedave, jazzyjay all making excellent contributions, as is Andrew L (non-livejournal, amazing). The illusion seems more or less complete - behind the narrative it may actually amaze some people but I actually have a system (of sorts) running. I should have a fifth scene up this weekend, and although I haven't done anything for it yet, I've started the livejournal community runequest. Let's hack that third edition into something brilliant.In other news, I conducted the service at the Unitarian's last Sunday. I used the example of the Canadian Unitarian Church offering sanctuary to asylum seekers in the opening words, a reading on the establishment of the Unitarian Service Committe, who provided safe passage for refugees from Nazi Germany from inside Czechoslavakia, and a combined Thomas Jefferson quote in the closing words; "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither... Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"
Recent brain-breaker award goes to
jahbulon. Pythagoras once claimed "all is numbers", and as a Little black box predicts the occurrence of major world events such as 9/11 and tsunami, he might be right.
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The fact that the machine started behaving funny 4 hours before 9-11, rather than suggesting that there was a direct link, seems to me as if they're fudging their data to make the facts fit the theory - "OK, so it didn't happen at the same time, but it was really close" - it reminds me of the attempts to link the lengths of pyramid corridors to world events.
Interesting, but I don't really think they've proved anything yet. It certainly doesn't sound as if we can obtain any real value from its purported predictions.
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*nods* You're quite right, of course. It merely made suggestions of "something big" - and that's being kind to the theory. Still the fact that there is some variation is interesting.