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Lectures and Tests, Games and Magyar Pagans, Intelligent Design, Hidden Agendas and Vested Interests
Second workshop on market segmentation and geodemographics for Prosper Australia was a success. Tomorrow is marketing for the media. After that organisational planning. Then comes the big test of implementation. Cisco classes went well last week. For the two module tests my results were 96% (WAN technologies) and 83% (router commands). I confess to not paying much attention to the latter.
Have been hard at work with the Mimesis RPG and will have a lengthy new draft on said work in progress at the end of today. Sunday (after a dull Unitarian Committee of Management Meeting) was Outbreak of Heresy where the noble troupe discovered a surviving Magyar pagan village and discovered the fiendish plan of the pagans to smash the neighbouring Christian counties through the Sword of God. It's all getting quite exciting.
Ahh, I'm giving the service for next Sunday's extended service:
A special extended service to discuss this issue to be held at the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne at 11 am on Sunday October 23.
Dr. Bill Hall, PhD in Evolutionary Biology, Knowledge Management Systems Analyst for Tenix Defence Engineering Pty Ltd and Nigel Sinnot, Rationalist and former editor of the British journal "Freethinker" (world's oldest freethought journal).
Plus speakers from ICAST (Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology) and the University of Melbourne (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Special thanks to the Livejournal community convert_me for their contribution to this debate.
Why are business and economic spokespeople so ignorant of basic economic matters? Here's an example of the Executive Director of the Business Roundtable who doesn't know what GDP is or how it is calculated. Here is an example (courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zey) of the spokesperson for the Australian Industry Group who doesn't know what productivity is. Are we supposed to have confidence is this people? Anyone with even high school economics would be rolling in the aisles at the sheer stupidity of these claims. Perhaps, (he asks rhetorically in the third person), they have another agenda?
Speaking of other agendas and vested interests Dr. Major Fernandes has gotten himself into the news again. Seems that the senior figures of the Australian military are less interested in intelligence and security but more interested in protecting the reputation of the Howard government. Want the evidence? Read the book, Reluctant Saviour.
Oh, andthe_siobhan? Thank you. This game rocks.
Have been hard at work with the Mimesis RPG and will have a lengthy new draft on said work in progress at the end of today. Sunday (after a dull Unitarian Committee of Management Meeting) was Outbreak of Heresy where the noble troupe discovered a surviving Magyar pagan village and discovered the fiendish plan of the pagans to smash the neighbouring Christian counties through the Sword of God. It's all getting quite exciting.
Ahh, I'm giving the service for next Sunday's extended service:
Theories of Evolution: Intelligent Design versus Natural Selection
A special extended service to discuss this issue to be held at the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne at 11 am on Sunday October 23.
Dr. Bill Hall, PhD in Evolutionary Biology, Knowledge Management Systems Analyst for Tenix Defence Engineering Pty Ltd and Nigel Sinnot, Rationalist and former editor of the British journal "Freethinker" (world's oldest freethought journal).
Plus speakers from ICAST (Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology) and the University of Melbourne (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Special thanks to the Livejournal community convert_me for their contribution to this debate.
Why are business and economic spokespeople so ignorant of basic economic matters? Here's an example of the Executive Director of the Business Roundtable who doesn't know what GDP is or how it is calculated. Here is an example (courtesy of
zey) of the spokesperson for the Australian Industry Group who doesn't know what productivity is. Are we supposed to have confidence is this people? Anyone with even high school economics would be rolling in the aisles at the sheer stupidity of these claims. Perhaps, (he asks rhetorically in the third person), they have another agenda?Speaking of other agendas and vested interests Dr. Major Fernandes has gotten himself into the news again. Seems that the senior figures of the Australian military are less interested in intelligence and security but more interested in protecting the reputation of the Howard government. Want the evidence? Read the book, Reluctant Saviour.
Oh, and
the_siobhan? Thank you. This game rocks.
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I won't be offended if you say no; I've seen too many games go rotten because there were too many players, or something like that :).
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Sure that sounds just fine... When are you over?
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Yep, we play every Sunday.. Currently three games
Outbreak of Heresy (16th century Transylvannia, home brew system)
Australian Noir (1920s alternative history Australia)
RuneQuest Glorantha (using 4th edition playtest rules)
Come along!
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Eh. Spelling mistake in the url. Stoopid me.