Tyler Suzuki Nelson

AMS Elections 2012 polls close at 5:00 PM, January 27, 2012. I wanted to have this out earlier, but it took longer than expected and I wasn’t able to start last weekend because I was at Waterloo for the Combining Two Cultures conference (blog coming soon). Anyhow, I hope it’s useful! Be sure to vote! [...]

Tonight, I attended STAND UBC‘s Trade vs Aid in South Sudan panel. The panelists were Kuol Deng, Dr. Chris Erickson, and Veronica Fynn, and they provided many interesting and insightful comments. Unfortunately, we ran out of time before I could ask my question, so I figured I would post it here and then hope that [...]

Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden My rating: 3 of 5 stars Imagine you and a group of friends gone deep into the wilderness one weekend for a camping trip. Imagine yourself encountering nature at a level never experienced before, making smores around the campfire while telling stories, and watch the stars and [...]

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen My rating: 3 of 5 stars I started this book years ago, but didn’t end up finishing it. It’s more of a manual than anything else, with instructions on how to implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) method. Back home where I first [...]

It’s a total fail on the part of Wikipedia, since it doesn’t really make for a representative blackout, but you can easily get around the blackout. (I support their cause, but I’m posting this anyways because I figured it could be time sensitive for people, and this will be circulating around pretty quickly anyways). When [...]

I meant to post these a while ago (hopefully they also work for BIOL 234). I learned about these sites after I finished BIOL 334, but they seem like they might be useful! 334summer.blogspot.com chromosomescandies.blogspot.com

Saturday was UBC’s Student Leadership Conference (SLC) of 2012. (Unfortunately, I ended up missing Edcamp Delta because I realized that subtracting busing time between the two locations would have me at Edcamp Delta only for the lunch session and about half of one discussion session, so I didn’t think it would have been worth the [...]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxP0VnbHSxE …shouldn’t those kids know better at that age? They better not get away with it just because they’re teens…

In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own. –John Marsden, author of Tomorrow When The War Began

I figured I should blog about this since I frequent it so often. During our most recent escapade, Pritisha, Yolanda, Jonathan, Jenny, and I stopped at Dairy Queen to use some of my remaining coupons for medium blizzards. Located at Trafalgar and West Broadway, this is a medium-sized location. However, there is a fair amount [...]