Category: Nerdery
While some people celebrated this numberific occasion back on July 8, I’ve been saving it for today because I prefer to write the dates in day-month-year order, which makes sense, rather than in the crazy, out-of-order month-day-year ((I realize that this stems from the way you would speak a date – “August 8th, 2009″, but […]
Last season, Tod got me hooked on Big Brother. I went from all look-down-my-nose, “Oh no, I’m not going to watch this “reality” television nonsense!” to “I NEED TO KNOW WHO IS GOING TO WIN POV1 THIS WEEK!” after about two episodes minutes. For the record, I was pretty happy with Dan winning last year […]
Words I love: characterological exegesis juxtaposition phagocytosis Words I hate: problematize hegemony Words I feel like I should love or hate, but about which I haven’t yet formed an opinion: evaluand expectorate Don’t forget to donate! Read about the charity that I’m supporting, Options for Sexual Health!!
OK, this posting has been sitting in my Drafts folder since FOREVER. I started writing it and it started going sideways and there’s really no point to it. It’s just a bunch of random stuff. A post in which I meander through things, not making any coherent argument. Also, it, like many of my postings […]
It’s time for… a list! Who doesn’t love lists? Hitler, that’s who. Everyone else loves lists. And now I give you one. It’s the list of all the books I currently have out of the library. Correction: the libraries. Because I have some books out of the VPL and some out of UBC library. Books […]
The last book that I have on my list of books to read for my performance plan at work is The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. There’s a section of our performance plans dedicated to personal growth (or something like that) and I’ve been wanting to read the PoN since forever, so I figured […]
Hot off the heels of listening to my first audiobook in the car on the way to and from work, I decided to see if the library had the next book on my list to read: Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy. This is the one I found on in e-format! Eat That Frog is […]
And speaking of books I’ve gotten out from the library, now I think I’ll review of a couple of them! At my new job, everyone has to put together performance plans to plan and track their performance. The majority of the plan revolves around planning the projects you are working on, but there is also […]
OK, so now I’m on a role with my word policing. More incorrect word usages that piss me off include: Over vs. More Than When you are talking in amounts, it’s not correct to use “over” – for example, to say “there were over 100 people at the event” or “for over a decade.” It […]
As any of my students will tell you, I’m a big stickler for correct word usage. In fact, I often say that learning the correct meaning of words is about half1 of what you do in your education! So, in that vein, I give you four pairs of words2 that are commonly used as if […]