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I sit here struggling against utter exhaustion, awaiting the next board meeting I need to attend. So, knowing that I haven't posted since last week, I thought I'd type a little bit about one of the more busy weeks and weekends I've had a chance to enjoy. Last weekend was the Kiwanis Club of Edmonton… Continue reading Really tired… but it's been a darn great weekend.

After handing in my paper, I headed to Edmonton City Centre and chatted with Telus, Bell and Rogers (in that order) before returning to Bell to make my purchase. I asked a lot of questions and got (the expected) funny looks when people heard that I was getting a smart phone after NEVER having owned… Continue reading Yes, it's true, I got a smart phone!

So Friday morning, I headed to campus in the blizzardy weather and attended the Butterdome Craft Sale. It was awesome as usual — I picked up a few gifts, tried some good samples, saw lots of neat things, and purchased a few things for myself. I'm pretty darn pleased with my personal purchases, though they… Continue reading Snow, Snow and more Snow (and also fun!)

… realistically involves a number of things. And yes, this is the annual Christmas list. No, I'm not at home to consult my handy dandy list of items I've written down over the years that I actually might want/need. Instead I'll go from memory and update it if I feel it needs it when I… Continue reading All I want for Christmas…

For the first time in all the years that I've been posting to this blog, I'm experimenting a little by changing the template. It's just that little bit more informative/customizeable, so that's definitely a plus. Christmas posts to follow, as I've been inevitably too busy to concern myself with the trappings of this holiday, that… Continue reading Change of template 🙂

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…

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

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 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 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