22nd April, 2006 - Posted by karen - 1 Comment
Hey, it’s always nice to find out that someone at my home university is recognised for something. This time it’s one of the profs from the deapartment where I did my undergrad - Dr. David Schindler, who just was awarded a very prestigious environmental prize. Way to go, Dr. S! Here’s another article from the CBC. » Read More
31st March, 2006 - Posted by karen - 2 Comments
Image from here. Alright - check this story out. And this work (here’s the online fulltext) is even published in Ang. Chem, the funkiest journal I’ve ever read! I love how they have pictures of the authors and put little cartoon ads in the whitespace after the references in the print version. Read More
31st March, 2006 - Posted by karen - 1 Comment
Its been a busy week so far. This past weekend I did a lot of errands and made my first trip to Marché Jean-Talon for vegetables and fruit. Its mostly still indoors but nice to get good produce at good prices. Yum. I took a half-day off work today so I worked late Monday, Tuesday and » Read More
25th March, 2006 - Posted by karen - No Comments
My cousin Anik recently posted part of a letter written to my Great Aunt during WWII. Take a look - it’s quite a story! More will come… Read More
24th March, 2006 - Posted by karen - No Comments
This is an event that has come up on multiple occasions in my life. I’ve met many people who have experienced it too, and I wanted to test you readers to see if you have also been affected by the scourge of the green pennies. Have you ever ended up with a Canadian penny that » Read More
4th March, 2006 - Posted by karen - No Comments
A cool meme: anagram names of the metro/subway stations! http://community.livejournal.com/montreal/1259849.html http://www.evade.ca/images/newMtl-metro-map.JPG Read More
14th January, 2006 - Posted by karen - 6 Comments
Hey-diddle-de-ho there neighbour-inos! What’s new in Karen-land, you ask? I finished reading my two Unix books and am now a guru superuser somewhat competent user and know how to get around, telnet, ftp, search/grep, copy, remove and move things and such. I learned two neat tricks this week: in OSX, typing “ls -G” gives a colourized » Read More
25th December, 2005 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Three weeks ago Dan had a wardrobe malfunction. While this one was not caught on video, he has retold the story here for your entertainment. Read More
23rd December, 2005 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Make sure you tune in to CBC radio one at 8:05 Christmas morning or CBC radio two at 6:05 PM on Christmas night to hear the “Christmas Sing-in” that we participated in two weeks ago! http://www.cbc.ca/montreal/features/singin/ Read More
15th December, 2005 - Posted by karen - 1 Comment
I am beginning to suspect I didn’t buy a mouse a month ago, but some sort of mutant cat/mouse/lizard hybrid. Don’t believe me? See the photos below…when I put food just out of Miette’s reach she tries to paw at it like a cat and then catch it with her creepy extra-long toungue. eww. I » Read More