Category: Geekery
Totally thought this posted a few days ago, but just came onto my blog to write a new posting and discovered I hadn’t. Anyway, here it is now! So it turns out that I bought my last phone a really, really long time ago. Like more than 3 years ago, which in phone-years, means my […]
Ordinarily I would post this at some point on Dec 31, but since I was in Ottawa for a friend’s wedding, I was too busy to put these stats together (along with my next two postings, which are a review of my 2015 goals and my goals for 2016). So instead, I’m posting them today! […]
Translink is in the process of introducing the Compass Card, which is a new fare card system for riding transit in the Greater Vancouver area. In the past, we’ve used a paper-based honour system – you either had a paper monthly pass or paper tickets (that you validated at a machine) and then just walked […]
In class today, I was demonstrating a method of data collection formally called “Dotmocracy” (but now being referred to as “Idea Ratings Sheets”). The basic premise is that you are looking to get a group to rate ideas and you have them write their ideas on a sheet and then everyone in the group can rate it […]
I’m not talking about my iliotibial (IT) band, nor am I talking about the monster from the Steven King novel ((Though both of those things would be good guesses for things that might not be my friend.)). I’m talking about information technology. Which seems to have had my number recently. I think this whole IT […]
I’m a big fan of listening to podcasts when I drive and since my boyfriend lives about a half an hour drive away, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. Here are some of my favs: Caustic Soda – As they describe it, this is “a weekly podcast about the science, history, and pop […]
So I know I recently said that blogs are dead, but that may have been a slight exaggeration. There actually are people who still blog on a somewhat regular basis and I thought I’d share some of those blogs with you. Just don’t stop reading my blog when you start reading these ones, k? In alphabetical […]
Every so often, I like to post some of my favourite tweets, because Twitter is a huge pain in the butt when it comes to finding old tweets (you have to just keep scrolling and scrolling!) and I have a terrible memory, so I need my blog to have all the things on it. Anyhoo, […]
My process (over several days, if not weeks): see interesting article linked to in a tweet. Open tab in my browser to read later when I have time open tab in my browser to check the weather open tab in my browser to Google something. Results taking too long, get distracted by something else. open […]
It’s been a year since I last shared my favourite tweets here on ye ole blog, so I took some screen shots for you. It seems that more of my fav tweets were related to politics than in the past, which makes sense given that 2014 was a municipal election year, but there’s still quite […]