• Archive for July, 2009

    Crosswalk Button Politics

    by  • July 14, 2009. 11:46 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    Imag­ine the sit­u­a­tion: You, a mild-mannered pedes­trian in an urban envi­ron­ment, arrives at a busy inter­sec­tion. A savvy civil­ian, you cross this street often and know that if the “cross” but­ton is not pressed, you will have to wait for another long cycle. Late for class, this might make the dif­fer­ence between that awe­some seat and the one […]

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    Plant ER: The Doctor Is In

    by  • July 6, 2009. 11:10 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    I woke up today, and some­thing was not nor­mal. Half of my pic­tures were on the floor instead of their usual place on the wall, and there was more. Some­thing else… miss­ing. When I was about to leave for work, it hit me. My plant. Had dis­ap­peared. The faith­ful plant I reg­u­larly watered, talked to, and was my […]

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    The Hazards of Love (Album Review)

    by  • July 6, 2009. 8:54 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    I recently had the plea­sure of buy­ing a copy of The Decem­berists’ lat­est work, The Haz­ards of Love. This album weaves together an arbo­real love story that is cou­pled with raw gui­tar and harp­si­chord to cre­ate an atmos­phere which resem­bles a Vic­to­rian royal fight with threads of a typ­i­cal romance of lore. I think All­mu­sic put it best, in […]

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