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As I grew up in Ontario, and even spent a few years in Hamilton, home of the original Tim Horton‘s store and more Tim Horton’s per capita than anywhere else¹, I have a special place in my heart for Timmy’s. Many a high school class was skipped so that my friends and I could hang […]
This afternoon I gave my last lecture for the class I’m teaching. It was a short one because it was just an exam review and my students clapped for me at the end, which totally caught me off guard¹. The exam for the class is next week and I can’t *wait* have all the exams […]
I am so ridiculously tired. I don’t think that I have recovered from the sleep deprivation that is Las Vegas. But I just wanted to say that this week’s installment of my prime ministerial series was preempted by all the exciting hockey action. And I’m just too freaking busy to write up the next P.M. […]
This is our goalie, Megs, at dinner on our first night in Vegas. Her shirt (and she had those shirts made up for everyone on the team because she *totally friggin’ rocks*!) pretty much sums up our weekend at the Lady Luck Cup hockey tournament in Las Vegas. Highlights of the trip: the U.S. border […]
Just got in from Vegas. Typed up the following on the plane, posting it and now going to fall into my bed: Typing this out on my Palm Treo 1on the plane home from my hockey tournament in Vegas. Yup, that’s where I disappeared to. Figured the blogosphere could survive a few days without me. […]
Saw this over on Derek’s blog. Tweetcloud.com will make a data cloud from your Tweets. Here’s mine: The words “blog” and “posting” are huge because I have my Twitter set up so that my blog postings are automatically set up to appear as Tweets that start with “New blog posting: [title of blog posting]” What […]
You know what is totally awesome? Having an shrill, piercing alarm going off for no fewer than SIX HOURS while you are trying to work. Especially on the day you have a really, really important grant application due. Like really important. Like one that funds not only your own salary (meaning if we don’t get […]
Used my Facebook status to play a little April Fool’s joke this morning: The fact that people use their FB status to announce such things these days made it just believable enough that I actually managed to fool a few friends. Hee hee.
Why does Windows even try to predict how much time is left on your laptop battery? It always fails miserably at it. One minute it will tell you that you have 1 hour of battery life left and 30 seconds later it will tell you have 3 mins. Then it’s 2 hrs and 45 mins. […]
What could be more Canadian than watching a hockey game while you write a blog post about the Prime Minister who led Canada through the First World War? Name Sir Robert Laird Borden Born: June 26, 1854 in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia Died: June 10, 1937 Party: Conservative, Unionist Held Office: October 10, 1911 – […]