Category: Geekery
So, as I’m sure I’ve never mentioned on here before, I love data. I used the Runkeeper app to track my running data, the Sleep Cycle app to track my sleeping data and (the now open source) wesabe to track my money data. So, not surprisingly, one of the blogs I follow is Information is Beautiful. […]
So I have a perfectly good excuse for not writing a proper blog posting today ((not sure what my excuse for the last several months is, but today I’m totally covered)). I’ve been *working* all night! As I mentioned the other day, I have to give a presentation for work tomorrow and I got the […]
Apparently me trying to have a life and make myself even more important at work ((because we already know I’m tres important but one can never be too rich, thin, or indispensable at work)) are not conducive to having any time to write blog postings! I’m trying frantically to finish a draft of a big […]
I’ve mentioned before that I’m using the RunKeeper iPhone app to track my training runs. One of the things I really like about RunKeeper is that it gives you a graph of your pace and the elevation of the runs you do. And you know I’m a sucker for graphs. This is a graph from […]
I had such good intentions of doing my grocery shopping after my run tonight. But I had to run 12 km ‘cuz I wasn’t up for running it yesterday ((for some strange reason, my knee hurt when I started my run yesterday, so I decided to give it a rest and do it today after […]
Over on Darren’s blog, he made some tag clouds using the keywords that people searched for and then ended up on his blog. I’m always one to steal other people’s ideas ((in my defence, he gave detailed instructions of how to do this using Google Analytics and Wordle, so he was pretty much asking for […]
Over on Kimli’s blog, I learned about this questionnaire from the Church of St. Mark that will tell you what kind of demon you are possessed by (because, seriously you must be possessed by some kind of demon if you are reading this blog). Now, I know you’ll all be surprised to learn that I’m […]
A few weeks ago I mentioned that my run tracking app, which uses the iPhone’s GPS to map out where you run as you run, occasionally has crazy ideas about where I actually ran. In the comments, extragoode mentioned that it was possible that sometimes the phone might lose its GPS connection for a second […]
Today I finally got to meet my long-lost British twin! I mean, sure we don’t look anything alike and were born a month apart ((I looked up her birthday on Facebook!)) on separate continents, but I can think of no other explanation for our similarities than the separated-at-birth theory. We are both scientists who chose […]