Category: Nerdery
… playing “unnoticeably on your broswer” during English class: … you would know that there isn’t a capital R in “classroom.” For the record, this was a pop up ad that managed to sneak by my pop up blocker. I wasn’t actually searching for online fantasy games featuring women with giant breast implants. If you […]
I can’t believe what they monkey fighting did to the Monday-to-Friday best line in the bestest freaking movie ever:
I *finally* finished marking the assignments that I’ve been marking for the last 362,454,879 days. Just in time to create the exam before the next set of assignments come in for marking! I really like teaching, but man oh man it’s a lot of work. Especially the first time you teach a course. I can […]
A LOLcats references and hating on Internet Explorer… together at last! http://icanhazrealbrowser.com/ Props to Jordan Behan, who tweeted about this awesomest of awesome sites. Also awesome is this cheque seen on the Fail Blog: I especially like that the memo on this cheque says, “What now, bitches?” Also, I conferred with my Official Statistician and […]
Yup, pi. As in ” the ratio of a circle’s area to the square of its radius” [Source: wikipedia]. As in 3.141592…. As in March 14 (3/14). And, now that I think about it, we are only six years away from an even more precise Pi Day: March 14, 2015 (3/14/15) ! This holiest of […]
Yesterday was my second workiversary. I wasn’t actually in the office as I teach my class out at UBC on Thursdays, so I was on campus instead. In lieu of yesterday, I brought in this workiversary chocolate for my co-workers today: I just realized that I should have put something in the photo to give […]
… or “What I Would Have Tweeted Today Had I Been Near My Computer And/Or Not Afraid To Tweet With My Phone In Case Bell Tries To Charge Me To Do So Despite My Having A Texting Plan As Per This News Story.”
So, I usually try to ignore the status of my student loan repayment. Part of my paycheque goes into a separate bank account (at a separate bank1) and automatic payments are made from that account to my student loans every month. And I try to not look at that account. Once in a while I’ll […]
So, yesterday I went to that talk by Dr. El-So-hottie1 that I mentioned the other day. His research in in the area of nutrigenomics – the field that applies genomics (i.e., studying the genome (i.e., all the genes in an individual)) to nutrients. What I really like about his lecture was that he talks about […]
So, I’ve talked a lot about Hockey Hotties, but did you know that professions other than hockey player count hotties within their ranks as well? Case in point: Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy, a scientist from the University of Toronto. He studies nutrigenomics. I saw him give a talk about his research at a symposium recently. Super […]