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Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/1204676254

nickoleptic — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:11:38 -0000

Dear Joe,

Please accept my sincerest apologies for unthoughtfully including your photo
on my blog. In an environment in which media and information is everywhere,
it is so much easier to share things and included a link to the source
without thinking of the fact that this is often not enough. Again, my
apologies - the photo has been removed, though I am somewhat perplexed as to
how you are going about finding every spot in which it has been shared.
Certainly, I hope you are able to see that its spread is due solely to an
expression of appreciation, not out of a desire to generate profit or take
credit. Nonetheless, I understand that this can hardly constitute
appreciation given the work that goes into your pieces.

bridget

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/1338545960

nickoleptic — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:19:33 -0000

aha! me, watching myself. this seems very reasonable. also, i enjoy your title of anonymity.

Re: the ipad in pompeii

nickoleptic — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:25:14 -0000

haha. i figured you'd seen it! looks like they had some pretttty serious cases on them. but still amazing that they survived.

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/1152154865

nickoleptic — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:02:31 -0000

no, i like it! and the sunshine offers a very nice element.

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/1138731403

nickoleptic — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:16:42 -0000

it's just crepes, downtown!

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/1030746157

nickoleptic — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:09:49 -0000

for one of my favorite songs off of my favorite spoon album, this video feels remarkably sketchy. haha. i do like the fishbowl. and especially enjoy that the entire time he was at a bar of sorts, i was convinced he was on a boat. and i'm thinking, wow! pool on a boat. this seems difficult to pull off successfully. hahaha. it is frightening the extent to which some things are just completely lost on me.

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/1006295700

nickoleptic — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:25:55 -0000

i've always found it very interesting how quickly the mind jumps from one thought to another. in daily life, we often find ourselves in conversations suddenly wondering how on earth we arrived at a particular topic. for as rapidly as this can happen in any other situation, however, it seems that a conversation with the internet, with all of its links and distractions, can move even more quickly from one topic to the next. tracing how this happens is just pretty fun.

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/1006791053

nickoleptic — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:07:02 -0000

simply because i've eaten so much tasteless watermelon since then, that it started to seem like i was imagining good taste just because watermelon had such exciting colors and was fun to eat. i wish i could bring you some!

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/993575394

nickoleptic — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:32:00 -0000

mmm. that could definitely be worth trying! and there are some nut allergies, but only sometimes. thanks for the idea! also, is it september 6th yet?

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/993575394

nickoleptic — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:30:49 -0000

oh, definitely.

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/993575394

nickoleptic — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:08:14 -0000

hahaha. nope. at least not that i know of. just amazed at how many different allergies / dietary choices there can be, even among a very small number of people. and tired of looking through recipes for someone's birthday.

i think it is time to make a baked good that is exactly none of these, except for good-tasting, and bring it to studio. any requests?

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/738239472

nickoleptic — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:19:44 -0000

kidding kidding kidding! sorry for any confusion ... i always forget how poorly sarcasm reads. and simón, that's just about how i felt.

Re: there are many reasons

nickoleptic — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:46:10 -0000

hey allison! the farm from which i get my csa share is bergefurds farm. they are in wilmington, ohio, but make deliveries to a number of different locations in cincinnati. you can visit their website at http://www.bergefurdsfarmma....

Re: there are many reasons

nickoleptic — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:43:55 -0000

nooo. these strawberries do not need sugar. hopefully, i will still have
some by the time you finally get back so that you can see - or rather taste
- why i might say this. or perhaps more hopefully, i will get more next
week so that there is a much better chance of this happening.

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/608557299

nickoleptic — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:27:45 -0000

hahaha. this is true. and better than being in high school and lamenting
that all of my friends are in relationships and ignoring me at the lunch
table.

Re: http://nickoleptic.tumblr.com/post/585526049

nickoleptic — Sun, 09 May 2010 22:19:42 -0000

noooo. yes, i did delete it. i don't really like facebook very much, and
figured that might be one way of cutting it back without disappearing from
existence. can't believe i missed you! i probably would have been on my
fire escape had it not been for the fact that it's been so cold out! i
definitely very very much enjoyed the storm, and appreciate your decision to
walk through it. i was at the marburg for one of the best open mics ever
for most of it, so we were not far from each other several times this
weekend. did you manage to go to king's island still? next time, ring my
doorbell pleaaase.

Re: defy -isms.

nickoleptic — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:07:02 -0000

i wish! no, only the mention that one exists. i could ask her about it if you'd like, though.

Re: defy -isms.

nickoleptic — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:40:59 -0000

you know me far too well. except, you forgot to point out that i am also the one with anger issues. and have delusions of efficiency. i needed someone to tell me that last one, though, because i've always thought myself incredibly efficient.

Re: if this is what design is

nickoleptic — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:36:04 -0000

all very well presented suggestions, natalie. thank you so much for
actually taking the time to make such a useful list.

i'm definitely familiar with the concept of not actually ingesting
what i'm testing, and in most cases, that's what i go for. it's
pretty disgusting to spit so much out, but i do it. it's also why
i've drunk soo much water. in the end, though, between even just
tasting all of that different food all day long, smelling so many
different disturbing things, and - in the case of yesterday - actually
not even having the time to spit a lot of things out (i feel
ridiculous saying that, but you should have seen how crazy things
looked around that microwave), you still end up feeling pretty sick by
the end of the day. i'm over it. i'm just never going to be a
professional taste tester.

amen to the factual statement of microwaves not actually being able
actually bake things. i've tried to explain that - countless times -
but humans have this funny way of not always hearing the things they
don't want to hear. my boss, and her boss, and her boss's boss are
particularly skilled at this practice. hey, i do it, too.

speaking of the boss's boss's boss (wow, i quite dislike the word
"boss"), she's just as much of a nut. bureaucracy is ridiculous
around here. i actually approached the person in charge of my design
team about the issue, and she simply said something along the lines
of, "you'll be fine. it's just a part of the job." and then she
walked away, laughing. admittedly, after going home and just lying in
bed for the rest of the day yesterday, i feel pretty alright today.
so, i can't argue that one. i'm just wondering if this is some
long-waited revenge she's finally gotten to exact upon the incorrect
person (aka me) after having to do something equally ridiculous when
she herself was an intern.

in the end, this is all just "a good learning experience" for me. and
that is to say, i have learned that i will fight tom osborne to the
death if he tries to make me come back to hasbro fall quarter, because
this is not the place for me. apparently, the easy bake team decided
about two weeks ago that they wanted to come out with an entire
microwavable line for next year in order to compete with their
competitors - "girl gourmet." since they have so little time, they
decided that they just wanted to use the mixes they've already
formulated for the oven, slap a label on them that says
"microwavable," and call it a day. they selected me as the lucky
individual to test this concept, and decided that if i "tried" hard
enough, i would present them with the perfect answer at the end of a
couple days. after attempting to logically explain this to multiple
different people of importance for some time to no avail, it became
painfully apparent that i was just going to have to prove it to them.
so, i sucked it up, did all of the tests, took all of the photos, and
made all of the charts with the detailed information they were looking
for. on my own accord, i then typed up a lengthy explanation of the
compiled results and what they now need to consider. in this
explanation, i clearly explained that no matter how badly they want it
to be so, they will not be able to use their present mixes for the new
microwavable products. they have some serious questions about
reformulation to consider, and they also need to ask themselves how
much of easy bake they want to be about making food that can actually
be considered "good tasting" and how much of it they want to be about
the fun of creating things, even if the results are less than
appetizing creations hidden beneath gobs of frosting and sprinkles (in
more delicate terms, of course). i also informed them that this is no
longer an issue they can leave to the intern - they will need a team
of qualified food engineers to tackle this project if they want to get
anywhere with it.

due to time constraints, my boss then had me ship (via e-mail) this
entire collection of charts and evaluations (along with my explanation
embedded at the bottom of one of the charts) directly off to a team of
individuals meeting in chicago about renewing contracts presently in
place for the mixes they have ... without even first reviewing it. i
sort of wish i could be at this meeting, but if they can't see that
the mixes don't work in the microwave, these people are blind and
illiterate. we'll see how things go, though the entire matter will
likely never be mentioned to me again ...

Re: the life of a self-induced narcoleptic

nickoleptic — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:07:49 -0000

... and I'm doing absolutely nothing at work as usual. All of your
answers and more should be here: http://disqus.com/. It's pretty darn
simple, but if you would like a more detailed source of direction, I
would be more than happy to write out a step-by-step guide or even
direct you over the phone after work. Do it! I usually want to
comment on virtually everything you post, but often have to just
reblog it and then add something instead, which can be very effective
on certain occasions but also pretty lame sometimes.
All is well, I'd say. And about that coffee/non-caffeinated beverage
meet up, I would absolutely love to join you for such a thing just as
soon as I'm finally free from this ridiculous co-op and back in
Cincinnati.
Have a marvelous day.

Re: the life of a self-induced narcoleptic

nickoleptic — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:38:24 -0000

wow, instant response! i wouldn't say cynicism, so much as complete
amusement. i can't help but laugh about things like this when i'm clearly a
bit out of place designing ponies. and to my defense, casey was equally
amused.

Re: lowercase

nickoleptic — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:11:46 -0000

ah, or perhaps it's just that you are a remarkably good teacher!

Re: sprung

nickoleptic — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:06:35 -0000

you're right ... i am terribly lazy. good thing i'm excellent at concealing
my true nature and motives for just about everything i do. who are you,
anyway? i know no one with such initials. "s" for a middle initial? must
be something crazy like "stanley."