Tuesday 8 March 2011

This is science

So after a painstaking three hours, I'm finally finished with the drawing that I promised Layman Researcher for winning my competition a couple of days ago. I'm pretty proud of it, I was thinking about what I wanted to do for it all day while I was at uni. A couple notes, I refer to the pseudoscientists and the mathematical fallacy, as Layman Research has posts about them on her blog. Be sure to check it out btw!

In other news, my birthday went pretty good. My wonderful fiance made me a great breakfast before I left in the morning, and made a fantastic steak dinner tonight. She's also making a delicious smelling cake as I'm writing this. It really made my day, as I'm not a huge fan of spending nine hours at university on Monday, but I got through it alright. 

On the subject of uni, I thought I would ask the advice of my fellow bloggers. I received a letter from the Golden Key International Honour Society on Friday congratulating me on my good grades last year and inviting me to join their little club. Great, I'll be in this cool club for smarties, one problem though; they want 90 of my dollars. I looked around on the net a bit and found that some people don't recommend going with them, as you never get anything in return. So I was wanting to hear from all you lovely people; has anyone joined the society? Why? Why not?

Some of my earlier followers may remember that I had signed up to participate in the in2science mentoring program. Basically, it involves going to a high-school and spending a few hours in a class once a week. My role there is to try and inspire young minds with the intrigues of the scientific world and encourage them to become future scientists. I brought this up because I'm meeting the teacher that I'm going to be with on Thursday to go around the school and get orientated. I'm really really excited about the whole thing and can't wait to inspire young minds.

As one last thought, and just in case I ever look back at this blog years from now, I finally cleaned out the bowl of potato salad that has been in the fridge since Christmas. Surprisingly, it didn't smell at all, but was unfortunately filled almost to the brim with bacteria spores. I wonder if my lawn is going to benefit from having so much bacteria spread all over it.

I'll be off now, thanks for all of the fantastic birthday wishes and interest. I really want to try and keep up with comics, but it does take time and I'm a busy person, so please stay tuned!

One last sentence so the text lines up with the bottom of the picture, because I'm crazy like that.

35 comments:

  1. Pretty good.
    Love that 'One last sentence'. OCD much?

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  2. awesome comic man. Wish you could do one for me :(

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  3. That 2 = 1 proof is logically unsound; it involves division by zero.

    /math

    Keep up the interesting posts, sir!

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  4. I love the comic.

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  5. Great one, i will watch more!

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  6. Yes, time to make fun of science! Thats good
    Baxxmans

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  7. I want a caterbladeagle. Nice read dude!

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  8. I'm glad you had a nice birthday. And your letter just sounds like a scam to me basically.

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  9. Awesome comic. And awesome last line. I also have to say, mentoring/volunteering to get youths interested in science is a great thing. More people need to do it. I know I definitely feel like a better person because of my work. Also, I have never heard of this Golden Key Society, sounds like a scam.

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  10. wow you are really good at this!

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  11. I really like this comic, and it seems you have had a pretty interesting life story! I will be following from here on out, and happy birthday by the way too!

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  12. Hilarious! The comic was pretty funny, too.

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  13. Nice comic, glad you had a great birthday.

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  14. I hope you can manage to inspire a lot of people!!
    great comic btw.

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  15. That's really great man! You make these? Amazing1

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  16. "My role there is to try and inspire young minds with the intrigues of the scientific world and encourage them to become future scientists." Good luck with that.

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  17. that comic is great! I'd be wary of joining a group that requires you to give them money to join. congrats on the good grades though.

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  18. Hilarious comic, happy bday.

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  19. I'm really impressed that you are volunteering like that. Kids need mentors to show them science is cool. Good luck with it!

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  20. I am crazy in exactly the same way as your last paragraph. Lorem ips

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  21. you made that cartoon? it's well done!

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  22. Nice comic, and good luck inspiring the young minds ;).

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  23. Definitely do more comics, funny stuff :D

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