Found via a friend’s FaceBook posting, delusionalcalgaria.ca has me in stitches this afternoon. It’s a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign put out by the Government of Nova Scotia to encourage Nova Scotians to seek out opportunities in their home province rather than moving west in search of fortune. (De-luge-unul Cal-gu-ree-uh) Acronym: DC An affliction that affects 4 [...]
Another Canadian Airline has bitten the dust. Harmony Airways announced today that they will be ending all scheduled flights over the next couple weeks. The good news is that people who had tickets booked on Harmony will be issued full refunds. Well played, Harmony. Customers of previous Canadian airline casualties Jetsgo were not nearly as [...]
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Interruption, a hot topic in Human-Computer Interaction, is getting a lot of play in the mainstream media these days. Yesterday’s New York Times had a nice article summarizing some recent studies on interruption and multitasking. And earlier this week my father directed me towards an article from this month’s Walrus (registration required): Driven to Distraction. [...]
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…is finding out you won a scholarship worth two years of PhD funding! The same scholarship you had been turned down for last year and the year before! Hooray for persistence.
Because the grad students in our lab are all about planning ahead, we purposely overbooked hotel rooms for an upcoming conference with the intention of cancelling later on if we didn’t have enough bodies to fill the rooms. This was indeed the case, so last week I set about cancelling one of our rooms using [...]
The constant rain this winter has prompted me to search for a drink more comforting than my standard morning “tall nonfat latte,” and I’m happy to report that while I’ll probably be back to my lattes when the sun reappears in a month or two, I’ve found an excellent temporary replacement. One of the coffee [...]