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It’s the day that we’ve all been waiting for! Health Canada has released the new version of Canada’s Food Guide! Before:After: This thing has been in the works for years. The previous incarnation, officially called “Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating,” was released in 1992. In 2002, Health Canada thought, “hmmm… perhaps we should update […]
So, I just joined a new group on Facebook: “If I were an enzyme i would be DNA helicase so i could unzip your genes.” Snicker. I never could resist a good science joke. So, in this Facebook group I discovered the Nerd Test. And I just had to know my nerd score. Read it […]
Thanks to Phillip, I finally joined the 21st century and started using Google Reader to keep track of all of the blogs I read, instead of clicking on the links on my blogroll individually. On the plus side, it sure beats clicking through my entire list and being disappointed when I find that no one […]
Apparently we are in a two-week period of increased earthquake risk here in the Pacific Northwest. Instead of our usual 0.0005 per cent chance of having a mega thrust earthquake, we have a 0.026 per cent chance. Do we have an earthquake kit? Um, well we’ve got a bunch of canned foods because canned beans […]
Two things about January: I did, in fact, post something every single day in January. And twice on the 10th. The only game in the entire month of January where the Canucks didn’t get at least one point was on my birthday. In other news, my future husband, Marc Chouinard, scored his second goal as […]
As you can see from the “Events” list on my Facebook sidebar thingy*, I’m a busy girl for the next week. So I thought I’d share with y’all some of the exciting things I’m doing. And for one of them, you can even play along at home! Next Thursday, I’m going to “Danielle and Beth’s […]
After much yammering about it, I think it’s high time I changed my blog title to something non-thesis related. But I’m still not 100% sure what to change it to. So I’m trying one on for size – and I may try other ones in the coming days, sort of a multiple blog-ality disorder. Or […]
For what seems like the millionth time, the wireless at my place is on the fritz*. So I called Telus to get them walk me through how to fix the damn thing… again. They have a new feature where you don’t actually have to stay on the line to hold your place in the queue. […]
Today, I had my first pole dancing lesson. First of all, props to Alicia for giving me such a freaking cool birthday present! Second, a shout out goes to Tantra Fitness, where you can take lapdancing or cardio striptease classes, in addition to learning how to work the pole. There were a lot of people […]
As a nutritional scientist, I consider it my duty to assess the contents of other shoppers’s purchases when waiting in line at the grocery store checkout. The vast majority of the time, what people are buying is appallingly bad for you and I get to feel all smug and superior in a “what is this […]