Category: Nerdery
… I’ll be running the Hollywood Half Marathon! Now that the plague that had infected my lungs is down to a mere biosafety level of 2.5, I’ve been able to get out and do a couple of runs this week, confirming that I can, in fact, break the previously-elusive (at least in the past 3 […]
Since I finished school ((Fun fact: 57% of my sentences these days start with “Since I finished school”. The other 43% start with “When I was in Ireland”.)), I no longer have an excuse for my place to be a mess. For the past two years, I was able to tell myself that I didn’t […]
Here is a quick summary of my blog and Twitter stats for 2013 ((To see previous years’ nerd stats postings, click the year in the table.)): 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 % change from 2012 Blog postings: 423 357 344 380 201 213 +6% Tweets: 2,227 1,815 2302 3,625 875 ((note to self: You […]
As previously mentioned, I met up with my friend Sarah and her family at the Ontario Science Centre today. Sarah et al live in Ontario, but are in the GTA to see her in laws and so they came out to meet me today and the OSC seemed like a good place to do that […]
Just to mix things up, I’m on a bus instead of a subway today. Off to the Ontario Science Centre to meet up with Sarah and her fam. Because science. I haven’t been to the OSC in a while, but I do remember it being pretty awesome. Because science. I’m sure there will be a […]
While looking for old blog postings to link to on some of the postings I’ve been writing, I came across this meme that I did in 2010 and it seemed like a good time to do it again. The idea is to post the first line of the first blog posting of each month of […]
As I was looking at my favourite tweets for that last blog posting, I realized that I hadn’t blogged about Cath’s short story, which was recently published in LabLit. For the uninitiated ((Which included me until Cath introduced me to Lab Lit by publishing there.)): “lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and […]
As you are probably aware, I’m a huge nerd. One of the manifestations of my nerdery is a love of spreadsheets ((See: my previous blog posting.)), ((One of my big pet peeves is people not knowing how to use Excel. And I’m not talking about using advanced features of Excel, but just the basic stuff […]
Hey, remember that time I finished all my classes for my MBA ((Assuming I passed my Business Ethics exam. Knock on wood.))? Did you ever wonder what all those classes I took were? Lucky for you, I have a spreadsheet! I did some colour coding, because everything is better with colour coding. Dark purple is […]
Toronto just got a new aquarium and my Aunt Lynn took us all there for my niece’s birthday ((Earlier in the day, my mom asked my 2.5 year old nephew what kind of fish he thought we would see at the aquarium. His answer: sushi.)). I have to say – it was pretty cool. We […]