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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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] imajica_lj, [livejournal.com profile] kremmen, [livejournal.com profile] hathhalla, [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] severina_242 and [livejournal.com profile] _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 [livejournal.com profile] hasimir via [livejournal.com profile] 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.

Date: 2007-11-10 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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..

Date: 2007-11-11 05:08 am (UTC)
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This is incidentally the thing that bugs me most about much SF.

Date: 2007-11-11 10:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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