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Major activity over the past few days has been putting together a HPC course for life sciences for next week, which mashes together my two standard courses with two bioinformatics courses by Software Carpentry. It has also provided me the opportunity to build some sample scripts for several applications, as well as fix up a weird error in the classic sample R job that I have in the common user directory - it looks like someone had edited half the script. Anyway, all better now, along with some twenty plus netCDF applications and dependencies installed for a user who started off with one question, then kept on building on the same ticket. Normally I tell people to submit a new ticket when they do that, but I was feeling generous.
Played Megatraveller on Thursday night; quite a good session involving some underwater exploration. Also have written up the last two sessions (The Sunscreen Factor and Mercury Poisoning) of Eclipse Phase in preparation for tomorrow's game. Have also spent some time working on the very late issue of RPG Review 42 with the dreaful realisation of how much more work is still required.
Main political activity of the past few days was going to Nina Taylor's Electorate Office opening. The smoking and cleansing ceremony by David Tournier of the Boonwurrung foundation was particularly good. Had a chat with several state MPs, including a chat with Jill Hennessy, the state attorney-general, hoping to get her to address a meeting of the Victorian Secular Lobby to discuss the tax-free status of commercial organisations owned by religious bodies. The event was a very enthusiastic and crowded meeting of Labor supporters, a far cry from perhaps dire expectations following Saturday's shock loss. Over the next few days, I should also have some Isocracy activity planned as well.
Apart from that, there's been some preparation for a short holiday in Sydney to see The Cure and Underworld, which should mean more Rocknerd reviews. Nephew-in-common-law Luke came over today as he'll be doing the house sitting and we feasted on what was pretty decent cleanskin red with a gnocchi with sweet potato and sun-dried tomato along with a freshly made tomato and herb infused bread. Nobody leaves my place hungry, it's a house rule. Even Sabre the psycho cat was curiously well-behaved for most of the day with only a couple of malicious hisses and one blood-drawing swipe.
Played Megatraveller on Thursday night; quite a good session involving some underwater exploration. Also have written up the last two sessions (The Sunscreen Factor and Mercury Poisoning) of Eclipse Phase in preparation for tomorrow's game. Have also spent some time working on the very late issue of RPG Review 42 with the dreaful realisation of how much more work is still required.
Main political activity of the past few days was going to Nina Taylor's Electorate Office opening. The smoking and cleansing ceremony by David Tournier of the Boonwurrung foundation was particularly good. Had a chat with several state MPs, including a chat with Jill Hennessy, the state attorney-general, hoping to get her to address a meeting of the Victorian Secular Lobby to discuss the tax-free status of commercial organisations owned by religious bodies. The event was a very enthusiastic and crowded meeting of Labor supporters, a far cry from perhaps dire expectations following Saturday's shock loss. Over the next few days, I should also have some Isocracy activity planned as well.
Apart from that, there's been some preparation for a short holiday in Sydney to see The Cure and Underworld, which should mean more Rocknerd reviews. Nephew-in-common-law Luke came over today as he'll be doing the house sitting and we feasted on what was pretty decent cleanskin red with a gnocchi with sweet potato and sun-dried tomato along with a freshly made tomato and herb infused bread. Nobody leaves my place hungry, it's a house rule. Even Sabre the psycho cat was curiously well-behaved for most of the day with only a couple of malicious hisses and one blood-drawing swipe.
