Diversity and Relaxation, "less comfortable for some"

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The past week was quite diverse in its activities. I completed some Tetum translations for Accents Ireland, did some work on the T3 program website, completed a lengthy article on the development of storage technologies for the French peer-reviewed arts journal Organdi, wrote a review for RPG.net for the Rogue Mistress campaign book. Still on my agenda for today is an application as a sysadmin for VPAC. On a related topic I've decided to decline nominations for President, Vice-President and Ordinary Committee Member for Linux Users Victoria.

I have taken some R&R as a pleasant surprise; mainly playing the classic Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, but also with some tabletop gaming in the form of our retroAD&D game (now in Iceland for the "Hall of the Fire Giant King"). This was the final game of the current DM who has to leave our group, which is a shame as a player but certainly no loss as a DM. Last Saturday entertained ser_pounce and hathhalla with a feast and played Munchkin and Hacker. Rather rudely I won both games :-) Tonight I'm off to a new D&D group who have their game based in a (European) fantasy version of Australia.

Last Sunday the Melbourne Unitarian Church had another forum on climate change, this time with politicians from the major parties in attendence. The leader of the Democrats, Lyn Allison gave her spiel, for the Greens there was Adam Bandt, the Federal candidate for Melbourne and for the Australian Labor Party, there was Kelvin Thomson, member for Wills. The Liberal Party declined to attend, although Adam did remind those present of the utter ignorance of the current Prime Minister. To quote:

TONY JONES: Prime Minister, what do you think living in Australia would be like by the end of this century for your own grandchildren and for the grandchildren and great grandchildren of others, if the temperatures, the average mean temperatures, around the world do rise by somewhere between four and possibly even more than six degrees celsius?

JOHN HOWARD: Well, it would be less comfortable for some than it is now, but, Tony, I think it's very, very hard for us, in 2007, to try, with that kind of mathematical accuracy, with great respect to the scientists, to sort of extrapolate what things might be....

Comments

[cheshire-bitten.livejournal.com]

Someone get that man a book of probabilities!


Mathematical accuracy? what does that mean anyway? what kind of rounding error does math have?

[discordia13.livejournal.com]

Dear god that transcript was like reading a script straight from Yes Minister.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

:::sigh:::

I just do *not* understand how people can vote for parties with leaders that ignorant, incurious and smug. Or indeed how they can vote directly for them in presidential races o'seas.

But they do.

I keep saying 'but they do' at the moment...

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

I hope you're checking out the lunar eclipse...

[ninboydean.livejournal.com]

I have noticed you're a programmer. Well, I like programming, but I have a problem with Visual C++ I haven't been able to resolve.

I get an error "error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol" referring to my various functions. It doesn't refer too all of them, but they are always one's that have pass values in the () field - i.e. "void asdf(int)".

There are no erros on compiling it, just on linking. Any tips?

Thanks.

P.S. Ironically, the program is meant to reproduce the AD&D 2nd edition rules.

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

I used to think Australia would be a nice alternative to living in the states. As of lately that delusion has been properly and utterly destroyed. Even the liberals there are bat shit crazy. To put it bluntly, the people of Australia are just plain fucked.