Category: Geekery
I like when websites have fun “we are down” pages. I mean, if I’m going to be inconvenienced with the site being down, the least they can do is make me smile. Just saw this one when I went to enter today’s treadmill run into Runkeeper:
A wise person once said “all data should always be graphed, always and forever”. And who am I to argue with this wise person? As I’m sure you recall, I am tracking the time I’m spending on my MBA program. For science. When we last looked at the data, I had just finished the core […]
Eight years ago today, I started this blog. If my blog were a person, it would be in grade 3 right now. Someone should probably bake my blog a cake. OK, so I was totally kidding about the cake, but then I just looked on Flickr and people have seriously baked cakes for their blogs. […]
I’m late to the complaints department on this one, but today is the last day of Google Reader. I’ve used Google Reader for *years* to keep track of the various blogs that I follow and now Google is killing it! Boo-urns, Google! Boo-urns to you. And if that weren’t bad enough, I have also discovered […]
The things that frogs get up to when you aren’t looking! It appears that Copernicus has joined Twitter. Here’s his first tweet: You can follow all his froggy tweets @CopernicusSnow.
How did students ever get by without the modern conveniences of online journals and Skype and Google Docs? Case in point: I just got off a Skype chat with a group for one of my courses – we are preparing for our class on Thursday and while on the call, we were brainstorming and then […]
And speaking of my kitchen, this past weekend I did something that I’ve been wanting to do for almost a year. I installed a lazy Susan in the cabinet where we keep all our baking dishes, pots, pans, and various other cooking-related do-dads. This cabinet is a corner cabinet, and it’s quite deep, meaning I […]
Here is a quick summary of my blog and Twitter stats for 2012 ((To see previous years’ nerd stats postings, click the year in the table.)): 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 % change from 2011 Blog postings: 423 357 344 380 201 -47% Tweets: 2,227 1,815 2302 3,625 875 ((note to self: You started Tweeting […]
It’s 2013 in just over 24 hours, so I figured why not set up 13 goals for the new year? Lose the 15 lbs that I gained since starting my MBA. Seriously. I have clothes that I can’t fit into and it’s not good for my health to be carrying around this extra weight, so […]
For the third year running, I’ve made it to the finals of Cath’s blog’s Comment of the Year competition! Basically, she picks the top comments from her blog over the past year and then lets her readers vote on the overall winner. For the past two years, I’ve come in *second* in votes. They say […]