Category Archives: silliness

Laughing stock of Canada

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

It snowed here this week. Not the little one-day sprinkles that have been a recurring theme of this winter, but a good few inches. This being Vancouver, a few inches were enough to bring the city to a halt. The … Continue reading →

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Random bullets of questions

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Why does it so often happen that, after hearing a new word for the first time, I hear it again (and sometimes again and again) within the next few days? This week’s example: fiduciary. Heard twice from two completely different … Continue reading →

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Album cover meme

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Here’s a fun meme from Science Girl at Curiosity Killed the Cat: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first article title on the page is the name of your band. 2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3The last four words of the very last quote is the title of … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling, meme, music, personal, photos, silliness | 13 Comments

Friday’s Primate Party

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

While past Friday’s Primate Parties have included the occasional scientific article, I tend to find most of my stories via Google Alerts. This approach does bring up some good stuff, as well as an awful lot of quotes from athletes … Continue reading →

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Friday’s Primate Party

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

ROFL. Good one, dude.I do hope that last week’s casualty was honoured like this anonymous monkey in India. (It seems cruel to stop the other monkeys from taking the body away though). On a much lighter note, the BBC reports … Continue reading →

Posted in apes, creationism, evolution, monkeys, nature, photos, Primate Party, science, silliness | 5 Comments

Procrastination Resolution Procrastination

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’ve been reading a lot of the blogosphere’s current crop of resolution posts this week. I came across a comment in one thread (that of course I can’t find again to link to) saying that the darkest time of the … Continue reading →

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Christmas Science

Posted on December 24, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I bet you didn’t know that “the concept of Santa Claus’ features is an historical remnant from before the phylogenetic divergence between prokaryotes and eukaryotes“. The authors state that they “are further studying the Hoho2 transgenic Homo sapiens quadruplicates generated … Continue reading →

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Friday’s Primate Christmas Birthday Party

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I wanted to write a Primate Party post that would sum up all that is good about the holiday season. Instead, I found a story about a tourist who has filed a formal complaint against an Indian monkey that stole … Continue reading →

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More drunk dancing scientists

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Ecogeofemme wrote a nice post this week that touched on the social aspects of conference attendance. I’ve always been pretty outgoing (well, since I left high school anyway) so I’ve always initiated lots of conversations, and I’ve had a grand … Continue reading →

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BBC not so classy?

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Is it just me, or does this image from the BBC home page not quite match the main headline? Sigh. The BBC used to be the definition of class. Well done Liverpool though – my second favourite Premier league team!

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