Category Archives: technology

Because I know how much you love my screenshots

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Do you ever open up new browser tabs to read later? I do. It’s a very bad habit – I sometimes end up with as many as ten blogs and news articles open at once, and it can take me … Continue reading →

Posted in science, silliness, technology | 6 Comments

A cure for piles?

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

One of the Research Ethics Board applications I submitted last week bounced back today, with a request to attach the original patient consent form used for sample acquisition. I searched all my computer files (I use extremely logical folder and … Continue reading →

Posted in career, grant wrangling, personal, photos, technology | 6 Comments

Elevated anxiety

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Spotted on the top floor of my building yesterday: In other, no doubt completely unrelated news, we have a new PI in the building! Dr… Wonka, I think it was. Model organisms guy, working on a species closely related to … Continue reading →

Posted in photos, silliness, technology, travel | 8 Comments

Fox hunt

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Yesterday, while composing an email to our IT department trying to persuade them to let me install Firefox on my new computer*, I decided to quickly check that the new version of Internet Explorer doesn’t have any of the necessary … Continue reading →

Posted in technology | 9 Comments

How the scientists stole Hallowe’en

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Here’s some classic X-Files dialogue from an episode called “How the ghosts stole Christmas“: Mulder: [alarmed at a noise] Shhh! What was that? Scully: [irritably rational] These are tricks that the mind plays. They are ingrained clichés from a thousand … Continue reading →

Posted in freakishness, photos, science, technology, television | 8 Comments

Context is everything

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Gotta love the intersection between science / clinical trial acronyms and automated word choice suggestions: Yes, lots of people eat rye bread in the former colonies, but that’s not quite what I was going for. In other news, I started … Continue reading →

Posted in English language, science, silliness, technology | 14 Comments

Podcath Part II

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

It’s been about 18 months since I made my first forays into the world of podcasts, and I am officially hooked! Thanks to some excellent suggestions in the comments of my last podcast post, some recommendations from my hilarious new … Continue reading →

Posted in blog buddies, Canada, current affairs, cycling, embarrassing fan girl, music, technology | 11 Comments

Friday Wednesday Quiz-ology

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Yes folks, it’s time for another fun quiz from my puzzle-a-day desk calendar!   I was going to save this for Friday, but I just submitted a grant after much stress and panic and lost sleep,* so I could do … Continue reading →

Posted in career, competition, English language, grant wrangling, nature, science, silliness, technology | 91 Comments

Adobe: Acrobat, eh?

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

You must be very bendy. Perhaps you could go fuck yourself? Yup, grant crankiness time. As part of the current grant application, I need to assemble details of every grant currently held and applied for by all eight of the … Continue reading →

Posted in grant wrangling, rants, technology | 15 Comments

RFA ROFL

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Oops: A subsequent email read “Apologies for the previous message which was sent out due to a technical error”. I love this kind of thing!

Posted in grant wrangling, silliness, technology | 7 Comments