Posted in media, misc, real life, tagged london, ontario, victoria park, walk, zombie on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am of the firm opinion that the zombie walk phenomenon is the best thing to ever happen to the world. I’m so glad that London has one every year now. I managed to make it out yesterday, albeit as a puny human and not a zombie. Here are some pictures.
I love how [...]
Posted in pictures, real life, tagged london, ontario, the wick on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of London’s oldest bars, The Wick, was secretly smashed with a wrecking ball on Sunday. The whole situation is extremely sketchy. The demolition started just before a meeting planned to discuss the building’s future as a protected heritage site. It was so rushed that utilities weren’t even shut off, and there was still beer [...]
Posted in misc, real life, tagged cereal, coke, life, mikey, pop rocks on July 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Growing up with the name Mike, and not being very picky about food, I often hear the phrases “give it to Mikey! He’ll eat anything!” and “Mikey likes it!”
The thing is, has anybody actually seen the Life Cereal commercial these phrases come from? Look:
Neither phrase is actually spoken in the [...]
The last stop on my trip/vacation was Toronto. I had planned on spending the day there, but that didn’t really work out, so I just took the Robert Q directly from the airport. But just because I was only there for an hour doesn’t mean I don’t have stories to tell you, dear [...]
Posted in pictures, psychology, real life, tagged cpa, halifax, nova scotia on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My last major stop on my trip was Halifax, where I presented research at the Canadian Psychological Association convention. The poster was about my research on the relationship between geomagnetic activity and creativity. Basically I found that when the earth’s magnetic field is disturbed by funky stuff going down on the sun, people [...]
Posted in pictures, real life, tagged "british columbia", travel on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My family and I went to BC for my grandma’s 80th birthday celebrations. My grandma is as sassy as she ever was, and it was awesome seeing that she has so many friends that she hangs out with. I hope that I can still be that social when I’m older, because it seems [...]
Montreal was the first stop on my cross-country tour. We went to see Geoff get ordained, so I got to experience the actual religious versions of all the Quebec swearing. Before, I didn’t know that the “‘ostie” tacked on the end of every sentence when a person from Quebec gets emotional was referring [...]
Posted in general science, real life on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m writing this from a Starbucks in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I’ve never written anything in a coffee shop before, but it seems to be a thing that real writers do, so here I am.
This vacation has been awesome, but I gotta point out one thing about traveling in today’s world. More and more, [...]
Posted in misc, real life, tagged baby animals, dogs, ducks, old men, rabbits on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let me share a story that raised my spirits today.
The last two weeks or so, when I’m out for a walk with Willow, there’s a certain bush she’s obsessed with. When we’re near it, she’ll sniff at it like crazy and refuse to move on. She’ll ask to go outside, [...]
Posted in general science, psychology, real life, tagged beer, psychology, statistics on April 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I once got slightly intoxicated while “studying” the night before a major exam in statistics. Normally this would not be something to be proud of, but the fact is, despite the morning headache, my mind was clear of distractions and all that wonderful statistical knowledge flowed onto the paper just as smoothly as the [...]
