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Guelph, ON – Not To Be Trusted With Knives’ Official Statistician & Tattoo Consultant, Daniel J. Gillis achieved his most significant accomplishment since the publication of his groundbreaking work on The Count today. Eye witnesses report that Daniel, formerly known as Soon-To-Be Dr. Dan, wowed the masses who attended his PhD defence at the University […] →Read more
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ((by which I mean, at UBC)), I used to teach classes using Problem-Based Learning and an important part of my role was to guide students through self- and peer-evaluation of group work. We used a format called “SIR” where you identified a Strength of the […] →Read more
So apparently the delivery guys weren’t lying when they said that the bed rails of my new bed “just snap on to the headboard and footboard.” It turns out that there are already screws sticking out of the headboard and the footboard, so the holes in the little metal pieces at the ends of the […] →Read more
The other day someone, who shall remain nameless, lost my car key. I had visions of having to get a co-op car, drive to my place in Surrey to get the spare car key I have safely stowed there, drive all the way back to Vancouver to get my car and then drive my car […] →Read more
On Thursday evening, I finally got my new bedroom furniture to go with my new mattress. You know, the furniture that was supposed to come on Tuesday morning. Don’t even get me started on the incompetence of Furniture Land, the place I bought this stuff from. I thought I was so smart negotiating a great […] →Read more
With six hockey games, and a 9 km run, under my belt in the last ~week – and another hockey game ((we’ve made it to the finals in the Easter co-ed tournament I’m playing in this weekend – w00t!)) and another 10 km run scheduled for the next two days, I’m starting to feel the […] →Read more
Tod’s wifi was b0rked today, so I tried to tether my laptop to my iPhone. But it didn’t work. I have no idea why. The phone said it was tethering, the laptop said the phone was connected, yet I wasn’t connected to the Internets. And just now I tried plugging my laptop into the Internets […] →Read more
= extra short blog posting. So happy to have four days off! I shall celebrate by sleeping in every day and playing hockey! W00t! →Read more
Not really big stuff – I’m not nearly that skilled ((my sister took woodshop in high school, so she’s got much more in the way of building skills than I do, as I chose “typing” as my business or tech credit (can anyone say “easy A+”?). I learned the basics of building stuff – e.g., […] →Read more