Actually Ironic
i⋅ro⋅ny –noun “a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results when enlivened by ‘perverse appropriateness’.” Props to The Bloggess, on whose site I saw this. →Read more
Further Analysis of Olympic Hockey Hotness – The Non-Canadians
After the Winter Classic hockey game yesterday, Team USA announced its men’s hockey team roster for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and answered one of the questions I had after Canada’s roster announcement: why isn’t Patrick Kane on Team Canada? Evidently, he’s an American ((I just assume that all good hockey players are Canadian. Unless they […] →Read more
An Analysis of the Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey Roster
The roster for the Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey team was announced on Wednesday. Since that time, the analysts here at NTBTWK have been conducting a thorough analysis of the roster. The results of this research are as follows: Forwards Patrice Bergeron, Boston Bruins Not hot Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins Hottie! (Though not the best pic […] →Read more
Nerd Stats 2009
And one final round-up for the year end. My nerd stats! 2008 2009 % change Blog postings: 423 357 -16% Tweets: 2,227 1,815 ((at the time of writing this blog posting and including the tweet that will result from me blogging this)) -19% Visits to my blog in 2008 32,410 45,153((at the time of writing […] →Read more
Goals For 2010
In keeping with my desire to be a year-end cliché, here are my goals for the new year (in no particular order): Sleep. Sleep is always the first thing I sacrifice when I take on too many jobs, which I do a lot. I’m going to take advantage of the fact that I’m not teaching […] →Read more
Something I Wrote Somewhere Else
A few months ago I was approached to write for CurioCity, a e-zine for teens about science that is produced by the science outreach organization I used to volunteer with. The articles are geared at teens and focus on science in everyday life. Since I’m totally missing the science outreach work I used to do, […] →Read more
Malaria Mondays!
In preparation for my upcoming trip to the Dominican Republic, I went to the Travel Clinic to see what sort of delightful diseases I might come into contact with in the DR. I came away from the appointment with: hepatitis A vaccination – since I haven’t done much traveling, I’ve not been in the position […] →Read more
Decade in Review
I saw this over on Laura’s blog and thought it was a pretty cool idea, so I’m stealing it leveraging some OPI ((I’m reading a supercheezy audiobook right now called “The One Minute Millionaire” where they talk about all the things you can leverage, like other people’s money (OPM), other people’s time (OPT), other people’s […] →Read more
Another 101 in 1001 update
I’ve decided to go totally cliché this year. I’m talking New Year’s resolutions and swearing that I’ll get back to exercising and eating well and losing that 15 lbs that’s been plauguing me. So, keeping with my transformation into a cliché, I figure the week after Christmas is a good time to take stock. Like […] →Read more
Merry Christmas!
Hope y’all are having a lovely Christmas. I’m full up of delicious Christmas dinner and delighted with my many Christmas presents. Because I’m a spoiled, spoiled girl! Hope Santa brought you everything you wanted! →Read more