Archive for the 'nerd stuff' Category

famous

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Michael made me famous! Though sadly, we did not dine on May 31st. I wonder if everyone’s calendar module is as creative!

BarCamp

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

this afternoon was spent at BarCamp. what a great day! huray for nerdy goodness. i participated in two session, hung out at the XP project room and ate some good food and drank some good beer. did i present? well, no. I did participate, though. yes, the “first rule of barCamp” is that everyone must […]

computers can do WHAT?

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

interesting article from Popular Science: John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine at first i was scared — if computers can come up with ideas, then who needs people? soon machines will come up with the idea of getting rid of us… or making a virtual reality world and using us as their batteries… the […]

nicole is my hero

Friday, April 28th, 2006

I was reading the news online today, and wanted to hear what’s happening with the Harvard plagiarizer. I clicked through to the first article listed. The article was titled “Kaavya Viswanathan Is a Literary Fraud, Says Nicole Richie“. I couldn’t stop lauging. Especially when I read this part: Ms. Ritchie, author of The Truth About […]

an idea gil had

Monday, April 24th, 2006

gil told me about an idea he had. gil: I know, I’m going to create an antisocial networking site jenn: that’s AWESOME gil: I’ve thought this through jenn: okay gil: you don’t enter any hobbies or anything, and you don’t get matched with people who have common interests. instead you are just presented with a […]

it’s here!

Friday, April 21st, 2006

i ordered it tuesday, and it arrived today. that’s right, my apple photo book is here. and it’s beautiful.   

now that i’m a genius..

Friday, April 21st, 2006

you’ve probably already seen this intelligence test, but now that I’m a member of the genius club, I decided i would share it with you all and see who is worthy of my company. teehee.

times i wished i lived out west

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

This is pretty cool: Women 2.0 Conference – The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

two things i’m proud of

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

1) waterloo for this 2) bolin for that not necessarily in that order.

more of the same

Monday, March 20th, 2006

The number of women in Canadian engineering schools dropped by 20 per cent between 1999 and 2004, according to the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers. The most dramatic drop was in first-year enrolment, the society said. The decline followed a decade in which a record number of Canadian women broke into the male-dominated world of […]