Category: events
Many people celebrate Pi Day by eating pie. I prefer to celebrate it by being irrational. -Dr. Beth In honour of Pi Day, I have hounded demanded of nicely asked my Official Statistician & Tattoo Consultant for some wise words about pi to share with you, my lovely readers ((After all, it is his first […]
I’m sitting here watching Canada play Italy in Paralympic sledge hockey ((on TV, not live. I’ll be watching live sledge hockey on Wednesday night)) and it got me wondering how and when sledge hockey was created. So, thanks to the wonder of Wikipedia, I now know that: sledge hockey was created in the early 1960s […]
Today, my friend Jen defended her PhD! I didn’t get to attend the defence because The Man made me go to work all day, but I heard from people that were in attendance that Jen rocked it! Not that there was any doubt that she would! Here’s a poor quality photo I took of Jen […]
And I’m typing on my laptop, which is tethered to my iPhone! All praise Steve Jobs! I was pretty happy to have gotten on this 5 p.m. ferry, since the workshop I was at in downtown Victoria ended at 4 p.m. and I wasn’t sure I’d make it to Swartz Bay in time for the […]
Since I’m apparently in the mood to promote events, I wanted to let y’all know about a conference that is going on in Victoria in May: 2010 Annual Canadian Evaluation Society Conference Going Green, Gold and Global: New Horizons for Evaluation May 2 to 5, 2010 — Fairmont Empress Hotel and Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria The […]
I received this event invite and thought I’d share it with y’all. It sounds like it will be an interesting talk (and I know most of the “experts” and they are pretty awesome). Please join us for a CIHR Café Scientifique Let’s Talk about Marijuana and Teens Why do more youth in British Columbia use […]
When I was a kid, we had the Calgary ’88 Olympics glasses from Petro-Canada. I’d be willing to bet that most Canadians remember these glasses – everyone I’ve mentioned them to recently has said, “The ones with the gold that flaked off?” Yup, those would be the ones. They looked like this ((FSM bless the […]
You could not have written a better script if you tried. Canada loses to the USA in the preliminary round – needs to avenge this defeat. Beloved hometown goalie in net. The Americans tie up the game with only 30 seconds left to go in regulation! And then young superstar Crosby, who hadn’t done much […]
Ok, so that was a close hockey game! Canada had a nice, comfortable 3-0 lead and then the Slovaks scored two and I nearly died of five heart attacks ((I totally stole this line from @enniscath. Because it perfectly sums it up)) . But thanks to Roberto Luuuuuuuongo ((as an aside, I love watching hockey […]
The internets gods have finally deemed me worthy enough to have my very own internets connection in my very own home. And what a great night for that to happen. Canada – and Canadian women in particular – kicked some ass at the Olympics tonight and I got to watch it all via the Internet […]