Why you should bag your oranges?
Tonight, I ran to the swimming pool for a workout and stopped by the grocery stores to buy some food for dinner. I grabbed some pita, meat, and dried cherries and headed over to the self-checkout area and waited for my turn. There was an older couple just ahead of me having some trouble. The norm is for folks to put all their oranges in a bag when selecting them from the boxes. This couple didn’t know this so they were trying to place all their oranges on the scale but they kept on rolling off and landing on the floor. The eventually decided on the divide and conquer approach which is place as many oranges as can fit on the scale and then to weigh them before weighing the next batch. The machine didn’t like this as they forgot a little detail which is that you have to tell the scale in advance what it is weighing before it will weigh it. They eventually got it sorted out but it was comical as they would have a handful of oranges on the scale and then one would fall off and the machine would start beeping and saying that they should see the attendant. The moral of the story is to put all your oranges in one bag and to place them on the scale together.
IAT – Implicit Association Test
While exploring iTunes U recently I downloaded a couple of psychology lectures from the University of Washington. During one the lectures they talked about the a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_Association_Test”IAT (Implicit Association Test/a). These are self-administered tests that will help you find out your unconscious levels of prejudice about age, gender, race, self-esteem, and mathematics vs. art. (Wikipedia Entry) At the a href=”https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/”Harvard IAT web site /ayou can take a variety of IATs. I took one comparing Canada and the United States and one comparing Obama and McCain. It was interesting learning about my natural biases.
Ap in brief
I’m back from a multi-day canoeing, camping and portaging trip to Algonquin Park. This is a quick summary as I’ll post a longer blog in a couple of days. The trip went well and started with rain and ended with a couple of days of bright sunshine. The rain on the first night forced us to cook steak sandwiches under a suspended canoe using my new a href=”http://picasaweb.google.com/moulec/Algonquin_Park2007/photo#5104195414243310306″stove/a. Our food bag was attacked by something and the attacker got covered by a href=”http://picasaweb.google.com/moulec/Algonquin_Park2007/photo#5104175678868584738″powdered milk/a with no damage to the backpack. On our first night, we had the fun experience of evicting a mouse that took refuge from the rain as we were heading to bed. The rest of the trek was uneventful as the warm sunny weather made paddling on the lakes effortlessly. We also what discovered what really a href=”http://picasaweb.google.com/moulec/Algonquin_Park2007/photo#5104197162294999938″killed /athe famous artist a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thompson”Tom Thomson/a.br /br /Photo gallery:a href=”http://picasaweb.google.com/moulec/Algonquin_Park2007″br /http://picasaweb.google.com/moulec/Algonquin_Park2007/a
Relief…Ah!
I got the relief was looking for this morning. The airport shuttle dropped off my bag at 600 am. This was really good news as I didn’t want to skip a couple of sessions as I was wearing shorts.
Delayed Baggage
As I type this entry I am looking out on the setting sun in downtown Atlanta, GA where I am attending my second honor society conference. Last year, I attended the conference in Phoenix, AZ. My flight from Ottawa to Dulles/Washington and then onto Atlanta went by really quickly. So quickly that my bags are still somewhere in Washington waiting for shipment south. I hope it eventually turns up as I don’t want to miss the toga party!br /br /There are 25 students in the Canadian delegation. I know about half of them from the conference last year and other meetings that we have had during the past year. During a break in the sessions I stopped in at REI to pickup an order that I had sent to the Atlanta store. I was pressed for time so I grabbed the order and headed back to the hotel. Drats, I didn’t get a chance to the explore the store. The opening session of the conference was a blast as it celebrated the 30th anniversary of the honor society. The weather has been in the high 90s and it is humid.
