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Re: Brustein Boosters, Beware | The Harvard Crimson

Nick — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:41:30 -0000

Whoever wrote this is a genius.

Re: The Toope Doctrine: What the UBC president’s hatred of Twitter tells us

Nick — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:09:39 -0000

This article makes two assumptions: 1) that we have only Twitter and 'curated' media to choose from, and 2) that Twitter is even a good medium for seeking out non-western perspectives and stories. Toope's argument is that Twitter is actually a bad medium for seeking out perspectives and stories in general, so really the article just assumes his argument away.

Re: Rosenfeld: On Michael Vick and the perils of living in Totem

Nick — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:41:29 -0000

"I am not in favor of bomb threats"

My kind of guy.

Re: Inception - Politics - The Atlantic

Nick — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:13:39 -0000

"The dangers that loom with the failure of Cobb's mission range from the inconsequential (Saito's firm goes out of business!)"

No - if you had listened more closely you would have remembered that Fischer's empire is, at the beginning of the film, on the verge of owning more than half of the world's energy supply.

"to the inauthentic (Cobb won't be able to return to pretty, talismanic children he was forced to abandon: parenthood as MacGuffin)"

No - Cobb can't return home, or live a normal life. This includes not being able to see his family. If this isn't authentic I don't know what is.

Plus (*spoiler alert*) there's Cobb's enduring belief that he _killed his own wife_. What the hell else do you want at stake?

What makes this movie near perfect is its ability to match technical brilliance with both depictions of emotion, and the ingredients/stimuli to stir intense emotion and ambiguity within the viewer. This is not so much a flaw as it is a creative choice. Some might prefer to stare at the master juggler comfortably from a distance, while others might occasionally seek the thrill of being juggled.

Re: So this British guy came to UBC

Nick — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:10:41 -0000

I think you misunderstood me -- I am in no way comparing the two's stances on education. I'm comparing the ways in which they put forward an argument (any old argument). Malcolm Gladwell isn't an education expert anyway, so I don't think we could call what he has to say about education a coherent 'stance' or 'position' really.

Re: Nick Zarzycki, Blog

Nick — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:39:53 -0000

Word.