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June 27, 2007
Recycle as a last resort
Sanders Says: Recycle as a last resort
I'm glad that we're talking about this now. As a society, we are so all about the quick fix. We glom onto something willy nilly and run with it, never looking back. Uh oh, Rudy, not good Theo! Be aware, be flexible, seek new information change your mind.
Posted by nikl at 04:51 PM | Comments (1)
June 26, 2007
Kickin' it old school
Ok. I'm totally guilty. The notes, posted items and status updates over on facebook have me neglecting my blog. Who knew that blogging would become so quickly obsolete? Your facebook profile becomes an automatic blog, and the facebook homepage is like being able to check ALL of your friends' blogs on one page. Have I mentioned that I love it???
Sorry.
So, as blogged by my sis, on Saturday night the power went out at 7 Pinebrook. Cameron left for TX on Friday and Kira, Aaron and Avery were in town so I had packed my things to hunker down in E'ville for the weekend. The power went out at 3:15 and didn't come back until sometime in the middle of the night. When I got home from my walk and trip to the new winery (yes! in Edwardsville!), around 7:30, everyone was hunkered down around the dining room table. We all stayed right there until 11pm.
It's too bad that it takes divine intervention for people to sit around and talk like that. At one point, googleless, the dictionary was fetched to provide a basis for the debate over the differece between an analogy and a metaphor. My dad clarified how he chose ophthalmology. I realized that the nice man having dinner with my boss earlier in the week with whom I discussed the pros and cons of his daughter wanting to move to NYC was also the first black man to walk in space. (OK, I cheated on that one, I had battery left on my phone which has a browser.)
Anyway. Perhaps we should have no power more often.
Posted by nikl at 07:40 PM | Comments (0)
June 24, 2007
Since I first opened a Facebook account, I've been saying that it's revolutionary.
To me, it's a given that it makes myspace completely moot. So it wasn't until about a week or two into my newfound Facebook evangelism when someone asked why it was any different that I bothered to form the thought in my head.
But this evening, having been told that someone had friended me on myspace, I logged in for the first time since I joined Facebook. After about 5 minutes, it was clear that my time on myspace was through. The only reason I will go on myspace moving forward is to see who's friended me, and to regularly persuade all my myspace friends to get their asses over to Facebook.
In the five minutes I was logged onto myspace, I was show two messages from a "friend" that were really from a hacker that had invaded her account, I got two load errors, 3 page errors and every single page loaded at the speed of lard. It was already a ridiculous user experience, but after using Facebook for a month and THEN using myspace, it was more clear than EVER that its existance actually an affront the the internet.
UGH.
So come friend me over at Facebook :). Search Nicole Hudson Hollway.
Posted by nikl at 10:41 PM | Comments (1)
June 20, 2007
So six years ago
I love that I heard a piece on the radio today about a website that Curt has been talking about for six years.
It's hard to be surrounded by so many trendsetters.
Posted by nikl at 09:44 AM | Comments (0)
June 18, 2007
Cat Cam
I love it when smart people have too much time on their hands. This guy rigged a camera with a remote control and affixed it to his cat's neck. Love it.
Thanks to Ted for the link.
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June 16, 2007
Alone again. Naturally.
The band is playing a Catholic school reunion in Monroe City, MO. Needless to say, I find myself, again, the only person of color in he room. And I use "person of color" instead of black b/c there are no people of any color here. That is, unless you count the beet red white boys who've been out on the glf course all day. And a Mat. Mat has a pool.
After 33 years of this being the case the majority of the time, it's a wonder I still notice. A wonder that it still gives me pause, makes me uneasy. But it does. Every time I travel to a new city, I'm always slightly on edge until I see other people of color. Not just a new city, a new part of or place in my own city.
Partially because being the only person of color is so frequent and partially just b/c of who I am, I don't feel any more comfortable in situations where there are only people of color.
I guess it's because in both situations I am the unknown. When I'm the only, I'm never sure if they've ever had any exposure to people of color and if so, was it positive? Negative? And regardless, the odds of that experience having been with anyone like me are slim. So I'm anxious to break the ice. To dispell the stereotype/expectation and be taken at face value.
When the situation is primarily one filled with people of color, I'm on edge for the moment when the expectations are broken. That familiar look when I open my mouth and don't sound like they assumed I would. Or when they find out that my husband is white.
Earlier tonight I commented that if I didn't know my husband, he would blend right in with this crowd. This crowd that makes me uneasy, I know is probably filled with people who are like him in more ways than looks. Most are probably much like the people I grew up with in East Alton, the people who were initially wary about a black family moving in. People who are now some of our nearest and dearest friends.
And then there's the fact that I'm only here for 5 hours and does it really matter at all.
But tonight it weighed on me. Because I guess that no matter how small the initial uncomfort is, I resent the fact that it exists. It's tiring. It's a waste of energy. And ultimately it's stupid.
I guess I could conclude that if I don't let it bother me it can't. I often have a good time playing ambassador. But tonight I was/am just tired.
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June 14, 2007
Wow
That's all I can really say about this. This has to be an elaborate ruse.
Cat destroys score for Phantom sequel.
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June 13, 2007
Kira's Blog
My super-brilliant sister started a blog. Links to her super brilliant articles and today, her admission that the book that is Face is indeed the bomb-diggity.
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June 11, 2007
Joshua Goldowsky: Speak it
From his facebook status today: "Joshua Goldowsky is content in knowing that theatre is dead and Tony Soprano is alive and well."
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June 10, 2007
Studio 60
I am so sad that America is so dumb and Nielson is so ineffectual that Studio 60 is canceled. It's the smartest best written TV offering in ages, and Big Brother is coming back for an 8th season. Where do we even start with that shiznett.
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