Valentines Day

If you have me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter you might already know that I'm a fan of Valentine's Day. I like pink, hearts, treats and love. I'm also a sucker for any sort of 'holiday' where I can make themed garland to hang out the place (I'll post pictures of that tomorrow).

I have a few others to add, but I thought I would post these pictures since today is actually Valentine's Day. After school today I volunteered to help set up for a charity event at Glasgow Square, my friend Cheryl was the lady in charge and despite her busyness she had a minute to pose for a hilarious photo - we were both wearing pink, it made sense.

Oh and the event was Valentine's Day themed (hence the hearts in the background) and that explains the heart shaped bowl we're holding, we're nerds.

We got a little silly, it was bound to happen

Science in St. Andrews on a Sunday

I volunteered my time today to nerd it up with some High School students at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews. The field trip was part of their course work, oh how I wish my high school classes had field trips like these!!

There was some rocky shore investigation (sampling/checking out the biodiversity/mud nearly sucking off rubber boots) and then we headed into the super brand new and fancy aquarium to check out the touch tanks and seals.

The beautiful building with the deck is actually the aquarium

Just a tree stump hanging out on the short

Harbour Seal

Lobster...it looks cooked but it's not! That's it's natural colour

Salmon

Wolf fish - super scary!!

After our adventures at the Huntsman we headed into St. Andrews for a bite to eat and some wandering around. So when I spied a 'place your head here' cutout I couldn't resist. This was in front of a candy store, and I'm assuming I was supposed to be Willy Wonka.

Famous Science Friends

A wonderful guy co-worker from SuperNOVA is still rocking science, it's just gone from teaching grade school students to shooting protons for cancer therapy - amazing. I'm not going to try and explain it, Nick can do it much more eloquently and hilariously:



The video is really well done as well, I hope you enjoyed the nerdery as much as I did!

Well said sir - SCIENCE!

Te He!

I found this image linked from craftgawker but I can't seem to find the original site!! Gah!

Source

It's too good not to share, so I'm going to keep searching for the source. I found it, I found it!! Giving credit where credit is due.

Twitter Love

Yesterday morning on CBC Radio 2's morning program the host (Tom Power, filling in for Bob Mackowycz) posed a question to us listeners: "Are Cadbury Cream Eggs out yet? Let me know on Twitter".

So being the nerd that I am, I was already following CBCR2Morning on Twitter and promptly responded.

To my surprise I received a thank-you in return. So that was an excellent start to my Friday morning.

And here it is:

 

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