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Employment, Gaming, Meetings
My contract at IVT is over; nothing to complain about, it was only supposed to be for one month and went on for four or so. One of sites being developed by said people is Choisir, who are selling Le Faguays bronze "tireuse a l'arc", which I have a reproduction of. I dread to think of the price of the original.
Somewhere along the line I've been converted into a computer game; check the copy for CoA-Prologue. "A fantasy roleplaying game (RPG): join Lev on his travels through secret passages and an old mine that’s not as empty as it appears... Solve riddles; survive battles and help the goblins as they try to rid themselves of a colony of Cave Spiders." OK, so I'm not the only Lev on the planet by any means but still, sounds just like the thing I'd get up to.
On related news, I've had an article published in the Rolemaster zine The Guild Companion which takes up the nature/nurture argument in simulation gaming. Recently reviewed Mythweaver, a likeable 80s style dungeon crawler. Played the classic Hacker on Friday night and finished the Rogue Mistress campaign on Sunday.
Last Tueday I gave a presentation at IVT on routing and netmasks, which was diverted to some basic material during the discussion (classful addressing and OSI layering). The Tuesday prior presented at the Existentialist Society on the topic Towards an Existentialist Political Economy, which had a good turnout and was well received. The following week attended the Atheist Society to hear Russell Blackford of Monash University speak on "Religious Vilification and Freedom of Speech". Pleasingly, his comments vindicated remarks I have been making on the subject.
Oh, I have a Facebook. Not sure what it's good for (apart from the fact there's a lot of people there who aren't here). Apparently it's a waste of time. Please stop the stupid; man jailed for two years for possession of drugs which he had a prescription for. From![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crankynick
Somewhere along the line I've been converted into a computer game; check the copy for CoA-Prologue. "A fantasy roleplaying game (RPG): join Lev on his travels through secret passages and an old mine that’s not as empty as it appears... Solve riddles; survive battles and help the goblins as they try to rid themselves of a colony of Cave Spiders." OK, so I'm not the only Lev on the planet by any means but still, sounds just like the thing I'd get up to.
On related news, I've had an article published in the Rolemaster zine The Guild Companion which takes up the nature/nurture argument in simulation gaming. Recently reviewed Mythweaver, a likeable 80s style dungeon crawler. Played the classic Hacker on Friday night and finished the Rogue Mistress campaign on Sunday.
Last Tueday I gave a presentation at IVT on routing and netmasks, which was diverted to some basic material during the discussion (classful addressing and OSI layering). The Tuesday prior presented at the Existentialist Society on the topic Towards an Existentialist Political Economy, which had a good turnout and was well received. The following week attended the Atheist Society to hear Russell Blackford of Monash University speak on "Religious Vilification and Freedom of Speech". Pleasingly, his comments vindicated remarks I have been making on the subject.
Oh, I have a Facebook. Not sure what it's good for (apart from the fact there's a lot of people there who aren't here). Apparently it's a waste of time. Please stop the stupid; man jailed for two years for possession of drugs which he had a prescription for. From
crankynick
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Ummm... Why can't plain-ol' email do that?
Bwahaha facebook.
Facebook was originally for facilitating the college age party lifestyle, as originally, you couldn't join without a .edu email address. As in, 'Oh shit, the electric bill! Let's have a $5 cup party.. how can we invite absolutely everyone we know really really fast?' and 'Dude, who was that hot chick who was out with Schmitty last night? I didn't get her name.. how will I find out who she is without having to grow a pair? Aha! She's in a pic with Schmitty! Score.'
Then it kind of cultivated a whole trend of people sitting around getting wasted and taking pictures of themselves. This is especially fun when your boss is on facebook and participates in said trend.
Since colleges all over heard that facebook facilitates underage drinking, they started giving the campus police .edu email addresses, which kind of screwed over its original purpose. Then it opened up to everybody, and well...
Now they're adding all of these stupid applications to try and make it like myspace. 'Popularity level?!' Yay.
Still, it's indispensable in a college atmosphere. 'Round these here parts, if you're not on facebook, ya kinda don't exist. It has become the main way to get invited to anything.. parties, student org events, etc. People don't really say, "I'll call you," or even "I'll email you," anymore; it's "I'll facebook you." I successfully resisted its pull for about a year and a half, but obviously have finally caved.
And yes, it is now designed to waste time as well as manage social connections.
Re: Bwahaha facebook.
I remember that; I tried to join with an .edu.au email address but it wasn't good enough!
People don't really say, "I'll call you," or even "I'll email you," anymore; it's "I'll facebook you."
That's kinda lame.
One thing that sticks in my brain was a plan I had five years ago for East Timor to make use of its .tp cctld to develop an international telephone directory/social networking site (see "tp" telephone?). Nothing happened however. :(
Re: Bwahaha facebook.
Yup. Especially now that it's getting less practical and even more shallow, which I wasn't aware was possible.
Nothing happened however. :(
Aww. Shit's weak.
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You can't stop the stupid,
nobody can stop the stupid...
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I think we need a war against stupid, rather than a war against drugs.
The idea of incarcerating people for being idiots has certain appeal.
Of course, we should start at the top...such seditious comments!
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Latest bash.org quote which made me laugh.
http://bash.org/?777977
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Yes and yes. Will negotiate time and place with
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How about this Saturday? We'll have something planned by then..
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Yeah, bring Munchkin along... Although I must introduce to joys of Hacker as well!
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Oh, let's make the vague time of around lunch... Summer wines?
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http://www.robnewman.com/grasping.html
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Yet caps, quotas and other forms of legal restrictions have a good track record (e.g., CFCs and SO2 emissions).
Capitalism is ... predicated on infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production in a finite planet.
Umm... No it isn't. Capitalism is predicated on private ownership of an industrial means of production. This does not necessitate infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production although those things are certainly an inclination.
.... as long as it continues to be so it will automatically undo (with its invisible hand) every single green initiative anybody cares to come up with.
Except for a market mechanism which charges for resources used rather than taxing production achieved.
The corporation will outflank every puny law and regulation that seeks to constrain its profitability.
Well, it will try no doubt; however few would suggest that anti-trust legislation and the like has been completely ineffectual. Hence there is always a conflict between capitalism and democracy.
Only by breaking up corporate power and bringing it under social control will we be able to overcome the global environmental crisis.
Again, this is by no means evident. Social control itself does not mean that the environmental crisis will be tackled.
Ultimately I'm not really sure what the poster is proposing as practical action. Abolish capitalism and then deal with the environmental issues? Sure sounds like it. Problem is that we may not have sufficient time to do that.
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LJ works for me because it allows for discussion threads and has a good-enough set of filters for message postings (All/Friends/Custom Groups) and I'm not forced to look at horrible 1996-style animated backgrounds and ghastly/blinking font choices.
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I tried MySpace for all of about, oh, ten minutes. And now I just have a static page that says "find me here" (at el-jay). I rather suspect that Facebook will go in a similar direction.
For all the complaints I have with Six Apart, el-jay is a better technology.
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That does seem to be the case. I must give it a go.
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> "It's only a matter of time before a security loophole is discovered and exploited." Dr Cullen said.
That's odd ... it seems to be employing the same basic technology as smh.com.au ... argh quick STOP READING! YOU WILL BE HACKED JUST BY READING SMH.COM.AU!!! Of course there are those of us that have been saying that ppl get hacked by reading shit like this for years ...
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Yeah, but I don't have a 'blog or anything close to it on the smh..
That said, some accuse me of having one in The Ages' letters column..
Mythweaver Review
Re: Mythweaver Review
Hey, I appreciate the time and effort you took in writing it. That's much harder!
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When will the Conservatives learn... oh wait I keep forgetting, Conservatives never learn. That's why they remain conservative.
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*APPLAUSE*
Yes, it was clear as day that was going to happen... I was even referencing peacefire.org to the naysayers as a starting point.
Information wants to be free.
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