Category: Nerdery
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 […]
My easy going start to the year has now come to an end. As you may recall ((What, you don’t keep track of my scheduling? Wait with bated breath to know what classes I am or am not taking?)), I did not take my usual weekend classes in Jan & early Feb, opting instead to […]
Apparently I am on a publishing roll! First came my textbook, and now my latest literary masterpiece: Adverse Events Following Immunization: Evaluating an Enhanced Nursing Role for PHNs Sadly, you can only read the full article if you (or the organization for which you work or the organization at which you go to school) has […]
How, exactly, is it February? It seems like just yesterday I was finishing up my lovely restful Christmas holidays and *poof* it’s February! This means, of course, that we are 1 full month into the new year and it seems like an excellent time to check in on those goals that I set for 2013, […]
Copies of my brand new textbook! I have to say, it’s pretty amazing to hold this book – the product of so much work – in my very own hands! For those of you who have been asking where you can buy yourself a copy of this fine book ((I.e., Rick.)), you can get it […]
So apparently this is what I would look like as a zombie ((Courtesy of http://www.deadyourself.com/walkers, a promo website for the Walking Dead television series. As if you could forget that it’s starting back up in a few weeks! Props to my Aunt Lynn for bringing this important website to my attention via her zombifying her […]
While scrolling through my old emails to write my blog posting about letters the other day, I came across an email where a friend of mine brought this site to my attention: http://www.universalrejection.org/ It’s an academic journal that is absolutely guaranteed to reject your submission, no matter what. In fact, they’ve never had […]
For the THIRD year running, I came in second in VWXYNot? Readers’ Choice Comment of the Year Award. I’m the Susan Lucci ((For the initiated, Susan Lucci was nominated 18 times for a Daytime Emmy before she finally won one. So there may be hope for me yet, assuming Cath continues to run her contest […]
Earlier today, Cath posted a link to an article ((Link only works if you have a subscription to Nature though. Sorry about that.)) in the latest issue of Nature about the importance to science history of archiving correspondence between scientists and how since everyone communicates by emails, and Tweets, and IMs, and texts, and Facebook […]
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 […]