SecureCon, SciPy, Gaming/Blade Runner

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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 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

[zey.livejournal.com]

There was a comment on the interest rates apology from someone at Crikey:

Media coverage of Prime Minister John Howard saying “sorry” for interest rate rises was seized upon by the Opposition yesterday. More fool them. The PM later sprung his trap, revealing that when he said "sorry", it wasn't actually an apology!

At some point, the ALP needs to start taking the piss out of Howard using clips of The Fonz from Happy Days doing his "Surr-ruuh... Suh-ruuh..." thing. Happy Days was always meant to be a comedy, but, Howard's beyond a joke these days and his weasel-words have become a self-parody.

[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.

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

you have got to let me bang some stuff out for you in Visio some time.

[crooked7.livejournal.com]

Hey, way off topic. But are you interested in taking a Marxian Economics class starting in January. The course is online and offered by the University of Utah, the professor allows outside observers to participate in the class. And best of all it's free.

Doesn't that sound like a sales pitch?

The text for the course is available online, check it out.
http://www.econ.utah.edu/~ehrbar/akmk.pdf

babel

[decrypt-era.livejournal.com]

without words there are no concepts

Th first time i heard you say this was in 92, thereabouts,
and in all th time since,
u'v never said anything which persuaded me
that this notion is anything other than utter bollocks.

A label for a concept is not th thing conceivd.
I have many thoughts which aren't attachd to words.
Language is a subset of thought.
Mostly a mind to mind transmission codec,
and hell lossy to boot.
Th loopback function, tho, has seen a lot of use of late,
perhaps a sign of madness?