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This was written by my friend, Darren P, as a Facebook note and I thought it was so well written and informative that I asked him if he would let me post it here as a guest posting. He graciously agreed and will now be dubbed my Kyoto Correspondent and Chief Fire Hydrant Advisor. By […]
Now, I should preface this by saying that it’s better than actually having to write the exam, but man, invigilating exams is boring! Invigilation, for the uninitiated, is the process whereby the instructor stands around doing absolutely nothing while watches over students writing their exams. You can’t do anything else while invigilating – no reading […]
A free public event being held April 14 (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) at the Wosk Centre, The Neuroethics of Addiction promises to be an engaging morning of discussions on, well, the neuroethics of addiction. This session will include topics such as: Addiction is a Brain Disease Treatment of Addiction and concurrent disorders between prohibition and stigma […]
Fiscal new year, that is. At least if you are on a April 1 to March 31 fiscal year. Which I just so happen to be. So, yeah, today is fiscal new year. Which means that I can no longer blame anything and everything that goes wrong on fiscal year-end, as I am wont to […]
While shopping for delicious foodstuffs to put into my shiny new fridge yesterday, I saw this: That’s right, raw meat, dripping with blood1, sitting atop the soy-based pretend-chicken wings and cutlets. Is this some meat eater’s sick idea of a joke? Or the sign of a repentant former meat eater who did some soul-searching in […]
I <3 Stephen Colbert! more about “The Colbert Report : March 3, 2009 : …“, posted with vodpod Note: If the above embedded video doesn’t work, you can watch the clip here. If you are Canada anyway. If you are in the US, apparently you can’t watch clips from the Comedy Network (just like we […]
Looks like it’s conference/workshop season for me. Last week was Educamp, today is a workshop on using NVIVO 8 qualitative data analysis software (and Friday I have a workshop on “Problem-Oriented Learning”). So today’s blog posting is going to be my notes from the workshop… which will probably be interesting to about 0.01% of my […]
When I first heard about the Decor Hell contest over on Monica’s blog, I knew that I *had* to enter. The contest involves sending in a photo of your fugly furniture, something that I have in no short supply! When I moved into my current place (which was meant to be a summer sublet but […]
An online dating site for extra-martial affairs. Their tagline, and I’m not even making this up, is “LIFE IS SHORT. HAVE AN AFFAIR.™” That’s right – that’s trademarked! From their own filthy, filthy mouths: Are you Married but Looking? Ashley Madison is the place for Married Dating. Feeling neglected and in need of some excitement? […]
I won! I won! I won! I won! I never win stuff. Well, until now. I won Raul’s contest for a trip for romantic 3-hour snowshoeing and chocolate fondue tour at Cypress Mountain on February 25! I’ve never been snowshoeing before! I’m super stoked! But there is one snag in my wonderful contest win – […]