You hear that, Mr Andersen?

Sims, Socrates, Award, No Money

Want an adrenaline rush? How about looking at your bank account, and see that it's been driven a little more than $1000 over your overdraft by three mysterious withdrawals of about $600 each? All of which are apparently to "Andersen Svend Arthu", all of which went out the day before?

Then I realised that it's just my mortgage. Which is good, since I didn't look forward to having to change passwords and so on. I can't remember whether it's fortnightly or monthy - I'll have to look at my documents - but it's a good thing I got paid last night. (And that I did an extra nine hours last week.)

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Went into town yesterday lunchtime and bought a trophy on behalf of the people in my room - 'the "I.T. Rogue Element of the Month Award", presented by the Weta Digital Systems team'. It is a mighty trophy - I'll see if I can get a picture when it gets here, but a picture of the template is on the left, though instead of a posing man, we have elected to go with... something different.

It should turn up this afternoon, and we've already decided who award it to for February. Now the competition will be on for March!

(There's some controversy as to whether vendors are eligible for the award - people have worried that both Telecom and Foundry have too big an advantage over any individual I.T. person in terms of messing the facility up. However, given the problems that they've given us in the past, they'd probably have to raise their game to an impressive extent for us to notice the problem over the noise. ;) )

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Here's an interesting article on using the Socratic Method for teaching. I think that one of the best points that it makes is that it's not an easy teaching method - you have to do a lot of prep beforehand, and you need to be flexible within the lesson. I see a few echoes of good GM practice in these notes, actually.

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The guy who's behind the Sims is making a new game, that looks as cool as I thought SimEarth would be, back in the day. There's a a preview here. The only problem I can see is - what's to stop PKs from swarming Bezerker-like through the universe? It's hard to know precisely how cool this game will be until we see an actual implimentation - but my first impression is that it'll probably be pretty damn cool. :)

Posted by svend at March 16, 2005 3:29 PM