So, last night I went to the much anticipated The Fugitives concert (featuring Kinnie Starr) at the Artery. I had won tickets earlier this week from Artery Noiselab on Facebook (I was quite honestly shocked that no one had beat me to it, afterall, I've been such a huge fan based on what little I… Continue reading The Fugitives were awesome! and other recaps…
Month: November 2009
Kiwanis Meeting Speaker talks about Data mining
Normally I don't blog about some of the better Kiwanis meetings I attend. Of course normally they're not as engaging or relevant as Peter's talk was in September. And tonight's talk was certainly relevant. In fact not only did it relate to what I learned at GIS Day on the 17th, but it related to… Continue reading Kiwanis Meeting Speaker talks about Data mining
Procrastination, a student's best friend?
Long ago… over 15 years ago in fact, I coined the term 'productive procrastination' to refer to my particular approach to work-avoidance. In fact, I don't avoid work, what I do avoid is whatever I ostensibly need to be doing at any given moment by being productive in other areas. What saves me here is… Continue reading Procrastination, a student's best friend?
On Sandra Gabriele's HuCo Colloquium talk
On November 20, 2009, Sandra Gabriele presented a talk entitled Visual Differentiation in Look-alike Medication Names: Evaluating Design in Context. With regards to errors in a hospital setting, Sandra Gabriele's design background has allowed her to look into how the design of medication labels may affect the frequency of errors. The paper on which the… Continue reading On Sandra Gabriele's HuCo Colloquium talk
On Paula Simons's talk
On November 19, at noon in the Senate Chamber in the historic Arts building at the UofA, Paula Simons spoke about one of her most influential Comparative Literature professors, Henry Kriesel. I was fascinated by her telling of his story: I never really knew much about him before, though I had attended several lectures named… Continue reading On Paula Simons's talk
GIS Day summary
If you hadn't noticed, I have begun to blog about various academic and semi-academic talks that I have had the pleasure of attending. While, yes this began as a course assignment, I have determined that I enjoy doing so, therefore I think I'll continue as a practice — though I likely won't blog every single… Continue reading GIS Day summary
Addresses please?
So I'm about to start the annual Christmas card tradition, and it strikes me, yet again that I don't necessarily have accurate address information for everyone to whom I want to write. Indeed, a number of people have moved into new abodes, some in new cities, provinces, states and countries. Others, I have no idea… Continue reading Addresses please?
My time is more valuable than this, really it is.
Instead of being productive and actually getting started on my php homework like I was supposed to be doing, I got stuck. Why? Because my wampserver isn't operating properly. It's supposed to open a page at http://localhost (essentially opening its www directory) but it won't open this page. All the problems I can think of… Continue reading My time is more valuable than this, really it is.
Just a brief personal update :)
I don't know how many of you caught my status updates from this past week/weekend. I spent most of my time lazing about sleeping about 12 hours a day, and eating very little. My appetite has pretty much returned, and I feel pretty much back to normal now, with the slight exception that I cough… Continue reading Just a brief personal update 🙂
On Michael Olsson's talk
Today, Michael Olsson gave an excellent talk about Shakespeare, or rather about a study that he completed through interviews of 36 participants from Canada, Finland and the UK, who were all involved as actors, directors, designers or dramaturages with Shakespeare productions. Each semi-structured interview lasted on average about two hours but ranged in length from… Continue reading On Michael Olsson's talk