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Posterous
Although I've known about it for a little while, I've finally set up a Posterous account. The concept is very cool - publishing to all of your social sites (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, your blog etc) by sending an email to one place. So the subject of your email goes to Twitter with a link to the post, photo attachments are sent to Flickr, video attachments send to YouTube and embedded in your post, and the whole thing is sent to your blog. Of course there's a whole heap of flexibility in how you direct things.
I'm looking forward to getting to know Posterous a bit better - if it lives up to its potential I think I'll be in love.
Really, I Should Be Sleeping
You know, I am truly a slack individual. I have nothing to do all day except play video games, surf the net for whatever pieces of information barely amuse me, talked to people at random -- most of whom are extremely busy and have much better things to do than talk to me -- as long as I like, and generally live the lifestyle that I dreamed that I would way back when I was 12. The few filial responsibilities that are heaped upon my head light and breezy enough to ignore, and more importantly, my sister and father probably would prefer that I ignore them more often than I take them up. I am, by all accounts, at least as well taken care of at the hands and wallet of my current benefactor then I would be anywhere else, including while enjoying the random vicissitudes of seeking out those few and rare gems of experience which represent commercially viable opportunities within the sphere of talents and skills and efforts that I possess.
What I'm saying here is: I'm doing okay sucking off the teat of the Federal whore to the point at which it is -- and will remain for the foreseeable future -- far more rational for me to accept my place that would be to try and strike out into another. Being a true kind of Objectivist,I know when a deal looks good and when it looks bad. The idea of me going out to pursue actual occupation in the fields in which I am acquainted -- well or not so well -- could only end in misery and suffering and loss. Even if I had the inclination and the motivation to reenter the job market, said market would not return as strongly an interest in me returning to it.
We have chosen separate languages, the market and I, and I'm not sure it's going to be for the best or the worst of us both, but it will be worth experimenting with... seeing with... sliding with...
As I said, I'm doing alright.I have plenty of funds to keep me occupied with my games in my simulations and my words and my histories, both deep and long -- shallow and short -- brutal and cold -- warm and forgiven. I have the very grain of an idea of how to run A Penny for My Thoughts online under Google Wave, and I hope to get that written up in some comprehensible way before the end of the next week. And then I will begin seeking -- volunteers -- none of whom have Google Wave invites already. I will be asking if you have interest in a game, a game played in the form of text, one where words are the only means of communication, no glances aside, no sudden lunges under the table, everything in plain sight, everything the result of whatever events transpire as you watch.
All except for the five items that you have in your hand. Each of which will represent an idea, a fragment of memory, something concrete enough to put another's finger on, the very edge of the situation, or the cutting edge of an experience.
Having picked up BioShock over the week, I have a certain tinge of a setting floating through my mind. Something not exactly modern, insofar as it doesn't take part in the grand peacock like distribution of our images before the eyes of others in order to make a more perfect smokescreen that looks exactly like the face behind. No, no, there would be deviancy deep in the system as a projection of the events that will be expected to occur within it. Somewhere between the harsh Victorian outliers and steam-punk, and the rage and suffering of the everyday man on the street -- therein lies more than a little meat for stores.
I'm curious, my prospective readers, what elements have you been wanting to explore in a story that involves you but are not necessarily under your control? What stories do you want to see woven about other people whose threads lie in between your fingers? High fantasy? Low fantasy? Perverse and sexual exploits depicted in four-color action? Or just the haunting and fragile lives of the every day and humdrum survivors of our world as we have made it?
On its own A Penny for My Thoughts is designed to focus on the experiences of the everyday, the person on the street, someone you might talk to in a coffee shop. It's long been a sort of implicit elitism that stories about normal people are not just unreasonable to tell stories about, but actively impossible because of overfamiliarity.
I don't actually think that's true. But I don't personally have enough information from gameplay -- the kind of play that involves characters of that level -- to really make a reasonable assessment. I honestly don't think many people do, despite how many claim to.
So here's my dilemma: I have game. Want play game. Have a Wave. Give Wave. Play games with peoples. Peoples want to play game?
It's easy enough for me to put together a few mechanics to handle the mystery objects, the mnemonic keys, which have to be distributed in order to play the game. It is trivially easy for the course of the game to get written down as it's played in documentary format given the natural content in context of Wave. I just need to know if anyone wants to try.
If you would like to play in a game of A Penny for My Thoughts, or if you have suggestions you would like to suggest before such play where to begin which might affect your interest in becoming involved, this would be the place to expose those. And I actually, seriously want you to. This is not a joke. I want you to tell me what it would take to get you into the game of A Penny for My Thoughts posted on Wave. As I said, an invitation to Google Wave is not a hindrance.. That can be provided.
What do people really want? What do people really want? What do people really want?
First Post.
Introductions:
Hello World.
I'm Dave. I'm 31, married father of 2, and a biochemist - more specifically a protein crystallographer. I try to get atomic resolution (I.e. you can see the atoms) structural information about proteins and other biological molecules that make us what we are. My interests centre around glycosaminoglycans - rather obscure carbohydrate polymers that have a wide range of important biological roles, from inflammatory response, ovulations, joint mechanics, would healing and so on.
I'm getting towards the end of my second postdoctoral post, and I am about to embark on a journey to make the leap from lab monkey to lab leader. This involves submitting fellowship applications to various funding bodies, outlining my research to-date and my research plans for the future, and hopefully getting them to give me copious amounts of money to fund my research.
This blog will contain musing and observations on this process, as well as a various science-y based stuff I collect from 'teh internetz'.
Enjoy.
What We Do Here
Hello, I am the Squidlord Alexander Williams, proprietor of Thy Cock Doth Weep. You're probably wondering exactly what it is that we do here, why we'd want to do it, and what kind of global suffering will ensue as a result of us doing it in public so hard.
Allow me to explicate.
Thy Cock Doth Weep is a spin-off of the Weepingcock community on LiveJournal. "Spin-off" in the sense of "inspired and fed by," but we'll let that go for now. What it really means is that over here, you can listen to bizarre, theatrical readings of some of the most surrealist filth ever exposed to the open air.
As Kermit the Frog would say, "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!"
Let's open up with Moire the Great's most recent post. Is it Dark Crystal fic? Is it just terrible? What is the gender of the participants? It doesn't matter!
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
line in
Fav, bookmark, subscribe.
digital distribution - who's doing what
just a reminder of who's doing what, if anyone's unsure of for those who missed the class and therefore don't have a topic:
podcasts / RSS -Helen, Chris Hp2p / filesharing -Nicola, Seb
email -Callum, Ryan
streaming -Andy, Sil
bluetooth / IR
'sneakernet' -Nick, Matt
iTunes / eMusic etc -Rosie, Tom
FTP / hosting etc -Kara, Gemma
MMS -Eriko, Kurt
VOIP
DAB -Chris M, Chris W
Cloud (dropbox etc)so AFAIK the remaining topics are VOIP, BT/IR and Cloud.
if the missing people could lay claim to these, then we can edit this post as ness.
cheers.
-Scott
Accreditation
Hi everyone
I have been at the accreditation centre in the last couple of days and it is taking about 2 hours to get through the line of competitors. Once you reach the accreditation desk it is very quick, but the lines of people waiting are incredible.
I don’t have an easy answer, but I do suggest that you leave at least 2 hours especially if you are hoping to go to accreditation before your first race.
The accreditation centre is open tomorrow (Friday) until 11pm, and is open on Saturday from 9am till 9pm
You must have your accreditation before you come to the pool, you will not be allowed on pool deck or in a race without it, so please carry it at all times.
I have been asked about parking, and I really can’t tell you what the situation will be. There are quite a number of car parks, but there are also quite a number of sports at Sydney Olympic Park. One suggestion would be to drive to Lidcombe Station and catch the sprint train to the Park.
I guess after Saturday I will have more of an idea what the parking situation will be and I will let you know.
See you at the pool
Jane
Accreditation Centre opens today
You need an accreditation pass before you can compete.
Competitors, team personnel and team sport umpires/referees will need to collect their accreditation pass from The Games Centre and will then be able to collect their Games backpack, access public transport, allocated seating at the Opening Ceremony, and compete in the Games. You can pick up your accreditation on the day of your first race but note that the WMG website advised that Games participants should allow at least 2 hours to collect their accreditation and backpack and visit relevant sports information desks.
The Accreditation Centre will be located within the Games Centre at The Dome at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush (see below for floorplan). The Centre will open today (Wednesday 7 October 2009) at 3pm, and will remain open until Sunday 18 October.
What to bring to collect your pass
When collecting your accreditation pass, please bring the following:
- Photographic identification which includes your full name and date of birth
- A copy of your Games Registration Confirmation Letter (a copy is located on the Registration Organiser in myGames).
World Masters Games Check in for 400m and 800m Events
All entrants in the 800m Freestyle will be required to confirm their intention to swim by a positive check-in prior to 4pm on the day before the event (Friday 9th) at the accreditation centre at the swimming sports desk.
All entrants in the 400m Freestyle and 400m Individual Medley will be required to confirm their intention to swim by a positive check-in prior to the close of competition on the day before the event at the positive check in desk at the pool.
The above events will be heat seeded following check-in, and the start lists published on the WMG website on the evening prior to the event. Those who fail to check-in will be deck seeded into additional heats as required on the day of competition.
