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Last Sunday was a poetry service at the Unitarians. I presented three pieces from my favourite Unitarian-Universalist poet, ee cummings; Ballad of the Scholar's Lament, The Way to Hump A Cow (yes, I really did read that in church full of little old ladies), and There Are So Many Tictoc Clocks. This Sunday I'll be presenting at the Church with the subject "A Unitarian-Universalist View of the Economic Crisis". Some might think in advance that I'll make mention of an view of economics espoused by past unitarians like John Locke, Thomas Jefferson and Herbert Simon (how come so few people seem to know of the latter?).

After that we're planning an educational game where each player is one the various factions in the early Christian Church and attempt to establish their own version of the Credo: The Game of Duelling Dogmas. This Friday at the "Melbourne Roleplaying Salon" we're having another shot at Dragon Warriors; after that it'll be back to beingfrank's game of The Shadow of Yesterday. My review for Pathfinder Beta Edition has been put up at RPG.net. I have been interviewed for my opinions on game design etc on gametime. In two weeks I take over from our current D&D3.5/Pathfinder DM in the Richmond gaming group to run Fantasy Australia. Two weeks ago, recumbenteer and Louise visited and we played "Unexploded Cow"; quite good work - am interested in any other suggestion from the "Cheap Ass" line.

Work's summer students are testing various scientific applications on GPU and are getting some very good results. On a related topic, last Saturday attended the annual LUV "Penguin Picnic". Afterwards, headed off to _zombiemonkey's birthday gathering, which was very enjoyable. Next week will be in Tasmania to attend Linux Conference Australia (do I go to enough conferences and conventions?).

Comments

[antayla.livejournal.com]

I get so jealous of all the really kewl gaming you do :P.
There are lots of gamers in Portland but finding the right group is tough.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

The Way to Hump A Cow (yes, I really did read that in church full of little old ladies)

Unitarianism: Not your Mother's church.

(I expect. I have no actual interest in finding out, but it works as a slogan. You just need a skater dude being radical for a bitchin' TV ad).

[engelhardtlm1.livejournal.com]

An incredibly informative post to me... Mostly because I friended you just a couple days ago and hadn't looked at your old posts. I learned:

(1) You're a UU.
(2) You're a gamer. (Speaking of which, Cheap Ass has a "Kill Dr. Lucky" line that is quite fun. I describe it as "the game that gets played before Clue." Also, any particular reason you're not switching over to D&D4e yet? I've played relatively little D&D - maybe 3 sessions of 3.5, as I'm a White Wolf fan - but am curious about your thoughts on 3.5e v 4e.)
(3) You're from Australia.

Shows you how little homework I do on my new friends, as all of this is in your userinfo... I think I just assumed that, since I knew you from the economics group, that economics was what I was going to hear about. Ah, the surprises of LJ.

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

Careful; the Nicene don't play nice.

[taavi.livejournal.com]

I believe Walter Burley Griffin was a Unitarian and a Georgist, if you're looking for forerunners.

Interestingly, I believe the vietnamese did actually consider buying up britain's mad cows in order to clear fields of cluster bombs, but decided there was too much risk of the prions getting into the food chain.
"Give me the brain" is probably my favourite CAG.

[kallistos.livejournal.com]

Just an apology if it took me a while to friend you back.