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Got an email from Jody yesterday: I hereby award you the “I blog about science” badge. Congratulations.http://scq.ubc.ca/sciencescouts/index.html these scouts sound fun. Thanks Jody!! Man, I’m sooo special! Check out the shiny badge I get:So, being the internet junkie that I am, I needed to further investigate this organization from which Jody had bestowed me this […] →Read more
Tamara brought me this necklace back from Thailand: And this bracelet from Fiji: We also think she may have brought back dengue virus, but we aren’t quite sure. →Read more
Danielle’s best friend, Tamara, has just returned from traveling to Fiji/New Zealand/Thailand and is staying with us for a few days, before she heads off to Cuba for her sister’s wedding. As I write this, she is having her first hot shower in a month. Danielle is heading to Belize for Reading Week on Friday; […] →Read more
Why did my grocery store decide to rearrange their set up, right when just I got to know where everything was? And why don’t they keep the tomato paste next to the canned tomatoes? And why have whole wheat English muffins been on sale* non-stop since I started going to this grocery store last May? […] →Read more
I’m planning to donate blood. OK, “stupid” probably isn’t the best word. Giving blood is important. People need blood and it has to come from somewhere. Blood doesn’t grow on trees, you know. Perhaps “paralyzingly terrifying” is a better term. You see, I am deathly afraid of needles. In fact, I’m getting woozy just writing […] →Read more
My friend Phillip told me about this article called “Say Everything” in New York Magazine. It’s an article about how comfortable young people are with revealing information about themselves on the internet. If you want to read Phillip‘s take on it (and/or the comments on his blog from an educator cited in the article wherein […] →Read more
I received the following email from my friend Mike: I’m reading Stephen Lewis’s “Race Against Time” (about the HIV-AIDScrisis in Africa) and was inspired to do what I can to enableMedicines Sans Frontiers and other well-intentioned do-gooders todeliver treatment and curb the spread of the virus and its effects.This means asking you to visit: http://www.msf.org/petition_india/international.htmlhttp://consensus.essentialmedicine.org/ […] →Read more
“I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.” -Rodney Dangerfield So, I went to the Vancouver Giants game last night. First off, early on in the game Garet Hunt of the Giants skated directly into the boards at full speed. It seemed like he was trying to hit a […] →Read more
I’m right in the middle of writing a big long blog posting, but I didn’t have enough time to finish it before I went to play ultimate this afternoon, and now I’m just going to scarf down a quick dinner before I go out for the evening, so I won’t have time to finish my […] →Read more
While I’m on the topic of politics*, I just read an article that David Emerson is thinking about running the Vancouver Quadra riding in the next election. Vancouver Quadra is my riding**. As you may remember from my previous rants, I’m not fan of David Emerson. David Emerson, who defected from the Liberal party a […] →Read more