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Raul is having a contest where you write about what you are going to do to make your Valentine enviro-friendly and thenyou are entered into a draw to win a snowshoeing tour at Cypress Mountain (complete with chocolate fondue in a quaint little wooden hut). And I’ve always wanted to go snowshoeing! My dilemma, however, […]
Here in BC, we are just a few months away from a provincial election. Being TV-less, I haven’t seen the original ads, but apparently there are pro-Liberal*1 ads being run under the name “Vote Smart BC.” And here, I’m providing you with the NDPs response to those ads: We’re exposing the facts about the people […]
In honour of yesterday’s Superbowl, I share with you this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8pxMXiYaNk (You have to click on the link to go see the video, as it doesn’t allow embedding. Also, it has swears in it, so you might now want to watch this at work. Unless your workplace is into that kind of thing.) I […]
Before my trip, I was having discussions about the appropriate number of shoes to take with me. The general consensus among my friends was that you don’t really need that many shoes for a week long trip. I disagree. For the record, I took seven pairs of shoes: And I wore every single pair at […]
Yesterday I hit my 800th Tweet. In commemoration of this momentous occasion, and because I am putting all my mad writing skillz into writing this big ole report from my recent work in Yellowknife and thus have none left for blogging so I decided to steal my previous writing from Twitterland, and besides, everyone loves […]
I just received an email about a new service from TheScientist.com, “the magazine for life science professionals”: LOOKING FOR A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP? And finding the world is a crowded petri dish? It’s not always easy to find that certain person for a great symbiotic relationship. Enter Science Connection. The Scientist has partnered with Science Connection […]
At last! Someone has combined two of my biggest pet peeves – pointless, annoying Facebook apps and ridiculous spelling errors! All they needed to do was make this “Is spiders and the Calgary Flames really ment to be yours?” and it would be perfect. Name and profile pic have been blurred to protect the annoying. […]
In case you were wondering, I haven’t actually dropped off the face of the earth. The lack of blogging around here has been due to me spending the last several days marking exams. But I am finally, finally, finally done with the marking! Rejoice! And now that all the students, some of whom apparently read […]
The pictures don’t really do it justice, but here is *the* skirt: The tale of this skirt is one of intrigue and mystery. OK, not really, but it is a tale of social networking, nerdy geeky goodness. And it goes like this: My freakin cool and totally hot friend Jen sends an email to a […]
I went to Starbucks at lunchtime for a wee bit o’caffeine to get me through the afternoon and when I handed over my travel mug and asked for an Americano, the dude¹ said, “But it’s Earth Day. You get a free drip coffee.” My response, “But… [long pause]… I don’t like your coffee.” The long […]