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The ugly car of the week: Seasickness on the road

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

The Mercedes-Benz Bionic Car Courtesy of fellow Vicad blogger Amber, I introduce to you a car that was designed to look like a fish. On purpose. According to National Geographic's Web site, this car is modeled after the (upside down?) ...

I like. It's niiiice.

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

I wonder how Borat feels about Kazakhstan misspelling 'bank' on its new currency? In case you don't know about Borat, the endearing man in the photo above, he's a character played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. On HBO's "Da Ali ...

Lessons I've learned after my first week in journalism

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

1. Although I write for a "good news" publication (meaning I don't report on negative events or political issues), people still don't trust me to cast them in a positive light. 2. Trying to find niche news is not unlike ...

Hey, Mac peeps...

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

The icon for the Mac Finder The logo for Goodwill Industries ...Is it just me, or could these two images have been separated at birth? Or maybe it's the decongestant messing with my head. See, when I can't remember what ...

A creative writing adventure

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

Fresh from my grad school's virtual classroom, here's a short little diddy I wrote simply off the cuff. The purpose of this piece is to focus not so much on content but on sound, i.e., dialects, alliteration, fictional names, repetition, ...

Taking a byte out of a Mac

By kellirhea in Quixotic Quicksand

New jobs, in most cases, require a person to become accustomed to new ways of performing tasks. A new hire will almost certainly have to face his or her fears when it comes to learning a new function. In my ...