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Vale Alan Ratcliffe, More Unitarians, Completing Works, Gaming and the Usual Madness.
Last Friday attended the funeral of Alan Ratcliffe, 101, at the Melbourne Unitarian Church. Just to give a sense of perspective Alan's school-teacher was the man who stopped the trains after the Kelly gang ripped up the lines. He bought his first Harley Davidson and Cheverolet in the mid-1920s and was still driving at the age of 91. An uncompromising socialist and atheist, he found no problem with being an active member of the Church for over fifty years. Nor did he ever waver in his support for voluntary euthanasia. The service, conducted by Peter Abrehart, was dignified and insightful. Some 150 people were in attendance.
Was expecting Andrew Chalmers at the Unitarians on Sunday on the topic of public versus proprietary science; for the second time he didn't show. Felt quite silly for having organised him as a speaker and once again, for having to conduct the service and give a presentation off-the-cuff. Managed to provide, on-the-fly, a presentation on the scientific method from inductivism, deductivism, and falsification, to research structures, scientific paradigms and 'anarchist science'. This Sunday coming I am on again as the presenter with the topic "Prospects for Liberal and Rationalist Islam".
Have completed, a website for motor vehicle apprenticeships, the T3 Program. Still has a couple of rough spots to iron out. On Tuesday completed CCNA 2 Prac Exam; engaging in a major catch-up for semester 3 in the following fortnight. Putting my foot down at Borderlands and have submitted network and web policies. They will comply to my benevolent network dictatorship ;-). Still going through the mountain of procedures that is my work at Naturelinks. Also, just have received confirmation that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
damien_wise and I are embarking on an IT publication.
Gaming over the last week has been HeroQuest and GURPS Australian Noir, both extremely enjoyable as was the films (Soylent Green and Westworld at the Astor afterwards). Mongoose Publishing almost overlooked my name as a playtester for the new upcoming edition of RuneQuest; a couple of terse emails has fixed that up. This weeked is Retrocon; come along and play. Still developing my Cyberpunk/Paranoia crossover; the systems seem to integrate very nicely. On topic, Valhalla Games is pushing the envelope when it comes to pricing.
Somalia the Libertarian bastion, falls. Livejournal bans displays of nipples (seriously, this place has gone to the dogs since Six Apart took over). The amazing survival story of Mike the Hamster
Was expecting Andrew Chalmers at the Unitarians on Sunday on the topic of public versus proprietary science; for the second time he didn't show. Felt quite silly for having organised him as a speaker and once again, for having to conduct the service and give a presentation off-the-cuff. Managed to provide, on-the-fly, a presentation on the scientific method from inductivism, deductivism, and falsification, to research structures, scientific paradigms and 'anarchist science'. This Sunday coming I am on again as the presenter with the topic "Prospects for Liberal and Rationalist Islam".
Have completed, a website for motor vehicle apprenticeships, the T3 Program. Still has a couple of rough spots to iron out. On Tuesday completed CCNA 2 Prac Exam; engaging in a major catch-up for semester 3 in the following fortnight. Putting my foot down at Borderlands and have submitted network and web policies. They will comply to my benevolent network dictatorship ;-). Still going through the mountain of procedures that is my work at Naturelinks. Also, just have received confirmation that
damien_wise and I are embarking on an IT publication.Gaming over the last week has been HeroQuest and GURPS Australian Noir, both extremely enjoyable as was the films (Soylent Green and Westworld at the Astor afterwards). Mongoose Publishing almost overlooked my name as a playtester for the new upcoming edition of RuneQuest; a couple of terse emails has fixed that up. This weeked is Retrocon; come along and play. Still developing my Cyberpunk/Paranoia crossover; the systems seem to integrate very nicely. On topic, Valhalla Games is pushing the envelope when it comes to pricing.
Somalia the Libertarian bastion, falls. Livejournal bans displays of nipples (seriously, this place has gone to the dogs since Six Apart took over). The amazing survival story of Mike the Hamster
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In the hell-hole that is Balcatta even.
I must say, he seems remarkably bitter.
Moreso.
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Well, he did have a bad couple of years following the enforced closure of the Perth store. Running for parliament was pretty nuts as well.
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Doug has been going through a pretty bad patch, I'd say. He had a lot of trouble in the few years before the closure of the store, as well - court cases alleging insurance fraud (I think not by Doug, but by a family member and store employee) for example. And I seriously doubt the store ever made much money, or ever made much headway against Tactics/GHD. No doubt its been a struggle for him the last few years.
I have heard vague rumours of Doug peddling some sort of herbal remedy as well. I hadn't heard about him running for parliament, though - details?
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Doug ran as a candidate for the south metropolitan region and received 0.01 of a quota
http://www.electionswa.com.au/_lc_regions.htm
I agree he's been through a very bad couple of years and I am very sympathetic to his plight. I am not sure that charging excessive prices on ebay is the way out however.