Category: Geekery
While my new iPhone remains, as of yet, nameless, she is now safely nestled in a cozy new case ((Which decreases my paranoia about dropping her. And thus probably my likelihood of actually dropping her, since I’m more clumsy when paranoid!)). I had a gift card from Best Buy, so I figured that my need […]
After patiently waiting for my lousy Telus contract to end, today I jumped ship to Fido. I was originally attracted their by their ad for a $57/month smartphone plan that includes all sorts of everything, only to be told by the manager in the Fido store that “oh no, that’s for smartphones.” “Uh, yeah, the […]
As you know from my constant yammering about it, I’m training to run the Victoria Half Marathon and my IT band is not happy about it. I had to run 18 km today – my second last long run before the actual race – and since the hilliness of New Westminster seems to be what’s […]
I’m conducting an experiment. I’ve noticed that I don’t get very many comments here on ye old blog lately, even though my number of readers hasn’t dropped off and a fair number of people comment on the links to my blog postings that show up on my Facebook page. I also know that the reCAPTCHA […]
So I checked the forecast for this weekend, and apparently it’s going to be hotter than hell at the zombie race this weekend: 38 degrees??? That’s insanity! The zombies won’t have a chance to eat me – I’m going to die of heat stroke first! In preparation for the upcoming zombie-eating-Beth fest, I decided to […]
Before I started the MBA, I talked to some alumni about what the program entailed. And one of the things that came up in these conversations was the amount of time they spent on homework. Most people estimated it to be around 15-20 hrs per week (remember, this is on top of a full-time job). […]
As promised, here’s the Prezi that I made for my “A Day in the Life of the Evaluation Specialist” presentation: I doesn’t make a whole lot of sense without me standing in front of it and speaking words, but it does highlight my ability to find free stock images. And, hey, I never promised coherence […]
I’m doing a presentation at an All Staff meeting at work next week on “A Day in the Life of the Evaluation Specialist”. I figure since most people have no idea what I do and about half the time I get introduced as an epidemiologist, this might be a neat opportunity to spread the word […]
Because I was having a grumpy day not too long ago, my sister drew me these pictures of robots. With flames. Because who wouldn’t be cheered up by robots and flames? No one, that’s who! And who doesn’t need such pictures adorning their work computer to make them all happy, all the time? No one, […]
So the other day I noticed that you could make a map of all your Linked In contacts, which shows you where you have clusters of contacts and where the clusters connect. Naturally, because I love visualizations of data, I jumped on it. And this is what I got: The first thing you notice is […]