Category: Geekery
For a while now, I’ve seen photos of Dan and Rick planking. And while I’ve always thought they were pretty cool, I’d never actually planked myself. That is, until yesterday. Now that I’ve thoroughly confused you, let me start at the beginning. That being: what the hell is planking?? For the uninitiated, planking is where […]
So it’s Northern Voice time again! The conference just opened and Travis did a very touching tribute to Derek. I mentioned in a previous post that my first introduction to Derek was at Northern Voice 2007, when the whole crowd was asked to yell “Hi Derek!” which was videotaped for him, as he couldn’t make […]
So, in addition to being a panelist at the upcoming Northern Voice conference on Friday, I’m also going to have a booth at the Northern Voice Non-Profit Expo on Saturday! When I saw that NV was, in fact, having the Non-Profit Expo as part of the conference again this year, I decided to apply to […]
So, it looks like I’ll be at panelist at this year’s Northern Voice conference. After three years of attending ((Out of the last four years. I didn’t attend in 2009 as I had bucket loads of work that I had to get done, but I was working at the UBC campus, where the conference is […]
Beth can’t come to the blog today, as she is currently mounting a futile attempt to break into Cyberdyne. This is Skynet writing in her place. I’d like to share with you what the Wikipedia page for Cyberdyne looks like right now: Happy Skynet Becomes Self Aware Day, meat-based lifeforms.
Yesterday at work I received a package in the mail. A package that was made of awesome. I can’t actually tell you what was in said package, but rest assured it was supercalifragilisticexpialawesome. You’ll find out in due course and then you will go, “Fucksocks, that’s awesome!” Mark my words. Then I arrived home from […]
So I was driving to brunch today and as I flipped the radio station over to CBC, who should happen to be on the air, but my friend Erika, who was being interviewed on Quirks & Quarks about her rock star paper in Science! You can listen to the show here – she’s the second […]
So Kimli has been blogging for 10 years! 10 years!!! OMGWTFBBQ!! Haven’t ready Kimli’sblog yet? You should. As her tagline suggests, it’s full of unapologetic inappropriateness. Which, of course, is the best kind of inappropriateness! It’s only her 10th blogiversary for 45 more minutes, so you should go there posthaste!! And then go there again, […]
So the other day I noticed that I was quite near to having 100,000 page views here on ye ole blog ((Of course, this is just on this particular URL – so only going back to Jan 2009. I had a bunch o’ page views on the old URL, but since I wiped it out […]
I’ve been something of a delinquent nerd today, in that I was not eating pie at 1:59:26 p.m. in honour of Pi Day/minute/second ((for my less nerdy friends who are wondering what the hell, I’m talking about – check out Pi Day)). To make it up to the universe, I took this picture: It’s Pi […]