THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SAINT PATTY’S DAY!
(this is a re-hash of last year’s post. I’m gonna keep doing this until people stop calling it St Patty’s Day) It’s Paddy. The diminutive form of the name Patrick (or Pádraig in the original Irish...
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Bragging Rights Central: new archive post
Keep ‘em coming, folks! VWXYNot? Comment(s) of the Week: Mar 04 2011: Mike for “Mrs F. and I shall mostly be caring for a very unhappy, snotty, feverish infant tonight. Beware: this is the sort of...
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Cat on a hot tin MacBook
Things are ramping up to crazy levels again, at work and elsewhere. Deadlines, side-projects, taxes (I actually managed to file weeks before the actual Canada Revenue deadline, for once!), unconference...
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A week in grant wrangling
Following Frank’s excellent example, it seemed like a good week to present a week’s worth of daily bulletins about what I actually do for a living. As I alluded to in my last post it’s the busiest time...
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(Long post alert! Sorry!) Regular readers will know all about my passion for politics, a passion that was dampened only slightly by seven years of voteless pre-citizenship residence in Canada and that...
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Third Annual VWXYNot? Readers’ Choice Comment of the Year Award!
So as regular readers know, every Friday, more or less, I choose my favourite comments from this blog (and my favourite posts I’ve read on other blogs), and list them in the sidebar under the title...
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Expat: a musical in three acts
Setting: Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom Act I: 54-40 (A whole room full of drunken Canadians is jumping up and down in ecstasy, singing along with every word of every song. Within the crowd is a group...
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Fourth Annual VWXYNot? Readers’ Choice Comment of the Year Award!
(I’m off sick with a really nasty cough for the second day in a row, so I’m pushing this out a day earlier than planned ‘cos I’m bored) So as regular readers know, every Friday, more or less, I choose...
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Context is everything (Part II)
Microsoft continues to crack me up: Certain PIs of my acquaintance may agree that they’re involved in too many projects, but I doubt anyone’s ever said the words “too many publications”… (Part I here)
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