Category: Geekery
Apparently, I write like a man: Dave brought this to my attention yesterday. He thinks that it’s all the “bawdy talk going on” that makes GenderAnalyzer think I’m a dude. I think may have to do with all the talk about hockey. Although I’m not sure how to reconcile all the talk about the hotness […]
The other day when I logged in to WordPress, I noticed that I had exactly 3333 total comments1 on my blog: That’s a nice number: 3333. But then I realized that 550 were spam. Boo spam. And then, on top of that, Akismet has saved me from a further 6741 spam comments! That’s 2.6 spam […]
So I’m clearing my browser history before class yesterday, as I was going to be showing my students this YouTube video, given that I was doing a presentation on how to give effective presentations, which is pretty gutsy, if I do say so myself, as you really have to do a kick ass presentation if […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NEB4l5gpw] From Terry at UBC.
And not just awesome. Fucking awesome. It says so on the internets: http://drbethsnow.isfuckingaweso.me/ Props to Miss604, on whose site I saw the awesomeness that is isfuckingaweso.me
Spent the morning in the WordCamp section of BarCamp Vancouver, a session talking about all things WordPress. As you can tell from my URL, my blog is on WordPress.com and I have been very happy with WP ever since I moved over from Blogger back in January. But the more of these WordCamp type events […]
So I was shopping on Broadway today and happened to go into this shoe store. As I am wont to do. And I was perusing the Hush Puppies, one of the clerks said to me, “What makes you ‘bloggable’?” For I was wearing this shirt1. I laughed. And then the one said, “What’s a blog?” […]
Oh, how I love my little Palm Pilot keyboard1. Here I am on the bus, traveling from work-related event #1 to work-related event #22, but writing a blog posting that I can upload from my beautiful Hermione when I get home tonight. Had my first real class yesterday – last week’s class was more of […]
100 days ago I decided to go on one of my crazy kicks where I try to blog at least once every day1. Previous attempts faltered at 88, 58 and a very, very pathetic 25 days, but this time I’ve somehow been able to keep at it and here I am, blogging my 100th day […]
I’ve been trying for a while to think of a good caption for a lolcat. I finally came up with one that really amuses me: For the uninitiated, lolcats are pictures of cats with captions in a form of broken English, called lolspeak. These pics are created by whoever is hit with the desire to […]