Category: Geekery
So my beloved Zaphod Beeblebrox the Car hit the 30,000 km mark this past week, which meant it was time for her second service appointment. For her first appointment, I took her to the dealership in Vancouver where I bought her, but this time I thought I’d take her to the Surrey location, what with […]
Want to see me finish my half marathon in Victoria on Sunday? Well, you can do so from the comfort of your own home because it’s being live streamed via Ustream! w00t! The race starts at 7:30 a.m. and my last two half marathon times have been in the 2 hr 23 min range, which […]
I miss being in the lab sometimes. For the uninitiated, this is a parody of the Flight of the Conchords’ “Most Beautiful Girl in the Room”: Props to my friend Nora, who posted this in Facebook and from whom I shamelessly stole the idea to post it here. Rock on, Nora. Rock on.
Here are the stairs I fell down yesterday: OK, I realize that I only fell down one of these stairs – the very bottom one specifically. But given how beat up I feel today – achy back/shoulder/leg/wrist – I’m revising my story to say that I fell down a flight of stairs. Possibly I was […]
A camera crew should follow me around at all times because, like my niece, I’m constantly saying hilarious and witty things that really should be shared with all the world. I mean, it’s a crime against humanity when I say something like, “You definitely can’t plan a spontaneous orgy” or “You had me at “dirty […]
… expect blogging around here to be light this week. For some reason, I thought it was a good idea to take on a contract for the writing of a grant application, along with my real job and teaching. (Will I ever learn? Answer: probably not). Hopefully I have enough funny things in my Flickr […]
For most of this week, I’ve been unable to find this: I mean, I had the cord that I use to synch my iPhone to my laptop (the end of which is seen on the right side of that photo), but I couldn’t find the end (that little cube looking thing on the left side […]
Yesterday, on my way back from my orthodontist appointment, I stopped at London Drugs to buy a doohickey that allows me to hook up Chloe, my beloved MacBook Pro, to a projector. You know, seeing as I start teaching my course tomorrow and I’ll be needing to hook up Chloe to a projector and all […]
Tonight is my first game with my new hockey team! Don’t worry, I haven’t abandoned my first hockey – I just happened to have joined a second one, because one can never play too much hockey! Anyway, my new team uses a fancy pants online system called Pointstreak to track who will be at each […]
So I was asked to call a friend’s Google Voice number and leave a message, because he wanted to see how well it would be transcribed. Google Voice, for the unintiated, is a super awesome thing where you get a phone number where people can call you and you can have that number forwarded to […]