Category Archives: Canada

Are left-wingers more creative? Are multi-party systems superior to two-party systems? Do provocative titles attract more readers and comments?

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Let’s see: a Canadian federal election, an electoral reform referendum in the UK, a new opposition leader and talk of an early provincial election in British Columbia, and lots of coverage of the likely US Republican party presidential candidates, all … Continue reading →

Posted in blog buddies, Canada, current affairs, politics, silliness, UK | 48 Comments

Weekend fun: my next tweet

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Many, many thanks to Kimli for alerting me to “That Can Be My Next Tweet!“, a tool that creates mash-ups of bits and pieces of your most recent tweets to create much hilarity. My twitter stream is kinda schizophrenic at … Continue reading →

Posted in Canada, communication, current affairs, cycling, English language, politics, science, silliness, technology | 35 Comments

Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I went to Whistler last weekend and it was awesome. More on that later, but today I wanted to share some photos of a remarkable mural we saw in an underpass as we walked back to the car from the … Continue reading →

Posted in art, Canada, nature, photos | 6 Comments

Priorities

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

This is a fantastic way to kick off a general election: Checking the CBC website for the latest campaign news this morning, I noticed that sport (and hockey in particular) is apparently less important than potential nuclear meltdowns, but much … Continue reading →

Posted in bad people, Canada, current affairs, silliness, sport, videos | 10 Comments

Spring forward

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Woohoo, daylight saving time! Now, if only the rain would stop, it might feel like this winter will end at some point… The following conversation occurred last week, during a regular conference call with some US collaborators: Collaborator: “We were … Continue reading →

Posted in Canada, silliness | 19 Comments

Why a three-year PhD is not necessarily shite

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

A couple of weeks ago I was chatting to a student in my department who’s just starting to write her thesis, and I mentioned that I wrote mine in three months, from start to finish. Several heads in the vicinity … Continue reading →

Posted in Canada, career, education, personal, science, UK | 44 Comments

It Gets Better

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

(ETA: DAMNIT! I still can’t figure out how to embed videos. I’ll try to fix this later, but for now I’ll just put the links in) (E again TA: Richard fixed the embedding! Yay! Thanks again, Richard!) (3rd edit: adding … Continue reading →

Posted in Canada, education, embarrassing fan girl, music, personal, videos | 17 Comments

2010 Travel Meme

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

As seen at Silver Fox’s excellent blog, here is a summary of all my 2010 trips (loosely defined!) All my travel was local, but wow, what an awesome year… January We spent Christmas and New Year at my sister-in-law’s up … Continue reading →

Posted in 2010 Olympics, blog buddies, camping, Canada, cycling, drunkenness, family, kayaking, meme, meta, music, personal, photos, silliness, snow, sport, travel, Vancouver | 8 Comments

I don’t talk like this at all, eh?

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Damnit, I can’t get the video to embed, despite following Richard’s instructions. Here’s the link to YouTube (and another one, because the first one got taken down)

Posted in Canada, English language, silliness, videos | 18 Comments

The people have spoken!

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Poll results The next quiz will be posted at 7am PST on Friday, November 5th. Comments will be closed for the first 24 hours (well, probably more like 26 or 27, because I’m not getting up early on a Saturday … Continue reading →

Posted in Canada, competition, meta, sport | 15 Comments