Mr. Towers, Thanks for your comment concerning my use of three pairs of underwear–oops, I mean unmentionables–while on vacation in Peru. This is a personal blog with little or no audience, so I was pleased that you took the time to comment. I do have to say though, that I was slightly hurt with the […]
Category: Academia
Done(-ish).
Today, at approximately 12:00 pm EST I successfully defended my last comprehensive (which is titled Confluences in the streams of birding, technology and animal studies and which I’ll need to upload & add to my academic writings). This is BIG news for a couple of reasons. The first is that I’ve struggled through the whole […]
“Wort to rule”
An unfortunate typo has us making beer to the letter of the recipe.
A square kick to the academic testicles
So, I’ve found out that I didn’t get a SSHRC. My proposal was scored a 15.5 and it would have needed a score of 16.5 to have been in the money. I also found out I’m 11th in line (out of 36) just in case somebody who got funding doesn’t want it / can’t take […]
Interviewed on Animal Voices
Traci and I are being interviewed on Animal Voices this morning. The blurb about what we’re supposed to talk about: On Animal Voices, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11 a.m. EDT: Between peering into binoculars and keeping meticulous checklists, for some outside the activity, bird watching may seem perplexing. Why do people enjoy it, and what […]
Students write…
“Ants protecting plants basically means that plants are protected by ants.” Oh boy. “Camponotus affinis does the loin’s share of this work…” I wonder what that would look like…
Origami Box: Finished Product
Origami Box: Finished Product, originally uploaded by Gavatron. This is what I do when I should be working on my comprehensives. Oh well, reading week is for, well, doing anything but reading. Browsing my RSS feeds (I guess that counts as reading, doesn’t it?) I noticed that Jason Kottke had posted about origami. In the […]
I’m in Ottawa
Well, not me, per se, but my SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships Program application. This means that it got out of the Faculty and out of the University. That’s good. Now, I got this far last year and then had the application evaluated at a 14 / 30, so this little piece of news doesn’t mean anything […]
I’ve arrived: RateMyProfessors.com
Yeah, so I’ve been rated and here’s my scorecard: Gavan Watson’s Scorecard No. of Ratings: 1 Average Helpfulness: 5.0 Hotness Total: 0 Average Easiness: 2.0 Average Clarity: 5.0 Overall Quality: 5.0 How about that? My feeling about ratemyprofessors.com is a bit mixed. While I think it’s great that students feel like they can evaluate those […]
Surrogate Species: Beavers help Frogs and Toads survive
Researches at the U of Alberta have found that significantly more frogs & toads (5.7 more new wood frogs [Rana sylvatica], 29 times more western toads [Bufo boreas] and 24 times more boreal chorus frogs [Pseudacris maculata]) could be found in the ponds created behind beaver (Castor canadensis) dams when compared to nearby free-flowing bodies […]