Media Workshops, Networking and Programmin', Gaming, Clothes, The Odyssey and ... SEX!

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Prosper Australia were very happy with my first workshop on media and marketing, albeit it was more on organisational structure. More next Tuesday, this time on market segments for people who may think that resource rents are better than taxes on productive capital or labour. One point I emphasized with them is that as a political organisation a narrow focus is not helpful to building a large membership.

Tuesday was the begining of CCNA semester 2. Router configuration. Not nearly as exciting as it sounds ;-) Finished a review of "The Real World Network Troubleshooting Manual" for SAGE-AU, which has some good material, but could have done with an editor. For a bit of fun, and I'm sure it has some practical use, I'm working my way through some Java programming, which I think is slowly converting me from C++, even if the latter is better for most computer games.

Speaking of which met up with three lecturers on multimedia and computer games at Swinburne University on Thursday; Dr. Andrew Stapleton, Dr. Mark Finn and a physicist named... ahh... what was it now? Anyway, they're all mainstays in their Bachelor of Multimedia (Games and Interactivity). It sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship. They've invited me to come and give some guest lectures early next year. Have posted an update to the Immersion mailing list and timetable.

Later that evening had a dinner with severina_242 and her mother who has just returned from Europe. She handed me a big bag of clothes from her boss who throws out his clothes (name brand and higher thank you very much) every six months and who is exactly my size. This grab lot included three Hugo Boss suits, two of which seem to have never been worn at all.

Tonight off to see the Odyssey with lokicarbis and caseopaya. Appropriately, apparently Ulysses tomb has been found. The Odyssey is one of my favourite stories; not just because of the epic wandering adventure and the mythic creatures, but because when confronted with the supernatural, Ulysses uses his reasoning ability to defeat them (see Adorno and Horkheimer's great essay, "Odyssey or Myth and Enlightenment" in The Dialectic of Enlightenment).

Is George Bush the antichrist (from kraant)? If so it would explain the messages he has received from his master. On the opposite side of the theological spectrum Dr. Fernandes has had this little biographical review of Noam Chomsky published in Overland Express. Well worth a read.

I promised sex. Well, how about an "unauthorised reproduction" bill, courtesy of the land of the free? How about a mainstream church promoting panty parties to get more people involved? Or a website that wants sex toy testers? Tasmania's government was going to legalise brothels. Now it's changed it's mind.

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[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

And worse, he's got the Hebrew gematria wrong.

Aleph, Yod and Vau are used to represent vowels, but only long [a], long [i] and long [o] respectively, as part of the pointing.

To spell 'George Bush', you'd have "GVRG BVSh", or maybe "GYVRG BVSh"
The former comes out as 3,6,200,3 2,6,300 => 212+326 = 538,
The latter as 222+326 = 538.

What he had, "GH3RGH BVShCh", can only be pronounced "geh'ergeh booshech", or even "geh'ergeh beveshech" which isn't exactly close to a precise transcription.

But maybe he meant the Yiddish spelling? But even then he's got the transcription values all fscked up, and displays a stunning ignorance of how the Hebrew alphabet works.



Or maybe it's a joke?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Or maybe it's a joke?

Cut it out! This is an important theological discussion about the the return of God on earth! ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fustian/]

YES!! Which is why its vitally importent that evryone nows PRINCE WILLIAM IS THE ANITCHRIST!. (Bush is merely the pawn of a vast right-wing conspiracy to immanentize the eschaton.)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

William Arthur Phillip Louis = A load of waphl

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fustian/]

I actually like the Arthurian connection (not least because I thought of it before I came across the "Antichrist Revealed" website in about 2001). And the Bloodline Conspiracy sort of exists (although they seem to be Mostly Harmless right-wing nutters like the Priory of Sion hoaxers, centred on a Jacobite pretender and an organisation calling itself The European Council of Princes — you can tell they're imaginary by the fact that they don't have a wikipedia entry :). Anyway, it's all pure gold fiction-fodder for my Alchemy Cycle.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

You realise that you're just feeding scenarios for my Outbreak of Heresy rpg story..

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fustian/]

We should collaborate!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Damn fine idea... Email me off-list and we'll talk some more (heh, some of my players read this journal and I wouldn't want to giving anything away)

Re: re panty parties article

[kraant.livejournal.com]

It seems the papists agree on Bush being the antichrist :)

Re: re panty parties article

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... That was the last Pope... I wonder what this one thinks.