SecureCon, SciPy, Gaming/Blade Runner

[tcpip]

Gave my presentation at SecureCon yesterday. PDF of the slides available, notes coming soon. The medieval castle metaphor does work particularly well for network security; also caught up with catsidhe who was present. Unfortuntely have not been able to attend today, but have successfully fixed an install of NumPy and SciPy, which required some annoying modifications to the code.

This Sunday I start the アイヌ語のラットの伝説 game. Tonight playing Polaris, last night D&D 'Ralia where my wide-eyed Hobbit continues to play the idiot savant. Tomorrow expecting some more gaming goodness with imajica_lj, kremmen, hathhalla, ser_pounce all making appearances before we head to the Astor to see Blade Runner, the Final Cut.

Ahem: I'm a goose; that's next Saturday which of course I'm booked with severina_242 and _zombiemonkey. Better fix that..

Yesterday slotted in another three scenes to my online HeroQuest Glorantha game. Have also completed a review of a classic RuneQuest/Judges Guild module, Broken Tree Inn on rpg.net

I've been saying this for years: Without Words there are no concepts (from hasimir via flemco). 8 limbed girl has operation. A blunt and pithy assessment of the economic claims in the Australian election. Howard on being sorry, and keeping wages down. News just in: Howard heckled with 'scumbag' taunts.

Comments

[roadriverrail.livejournal.com]

Without Words there are no concepts

Having read a fair slice of psycholinguistics (for an amateur), I was so on board with this article until it got to DMT and UFOs.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Yes; but that part of it is quite incidental; it seems like the author is combining interests. Although as pure speculation, language seems to heavily mediated by closeness of species so any genuinely alien communication would be difficult..

[jeshyr]

This is incidentally the thing that bugs me most about much SF.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

*nods* Me to. Aliens, and especially the humanoid variety, are usually presented as some sort of human cultural stereotype rather than being genuinely alien.