by Lindsey Frick | February 22, 2010
(+2)My mornings operate just like clockwork. At 7 A.M., a ghastly loud ring inspires my left arm to spring up like a released catapult, quickly smashing down on my alarm clock in a way that says “Not now, time. I need 10 more minutes, and you’re going to give that to me.” Ten minutes later, [...](read more...)
by Lindsey Frick | February 8, 2010 (+1)By the end of reading this article, you will be presented with a naked girl. Still reading? Good. … I lied. Still Reading? …. …………… …………………….. … Darn. Hi mom. I knew you’d still be here. Clearly, I don’t have GoDaddy.com’s touch, but they’ve done it again. They taken the seemingly boring world of web domain hosting and made it relevant and sexy with the NASCAR bombshell [...](read more...)
by Lindsey Frick | February 3, 2010 (+2)“By ‘while my wardrobe has made a relatively mature shift with the inclusion of more neutral palates and a little less synthetic fabrics’ did you mean grandma sweaters?”- Carley Frick, my annoying little sister, Facebook.com 1/29/10 1:59 AM Mountain Time Yes. Actually, that is exactly what I meant, and thank you to my sister for pointing [...](read more...)
by Lindsey Frick | January 28, 2010 (+1)When I was five years old, I developed an interest in gaudy gowns that sparkle in the same flamboyant manner that Madonna did in the 80s. This quickly morphed from an innocent attraction to anything bedazzled to a somewhat unhealthy obsession. The first time I went to a thrift store with my mother, I lost [...](read more...)
by Lindsey Frick | January 25, 2010 (+2)In a controversial move on Tuesday, January 12, Google threatened to pull its services out of China, citing a cyber attack aimed at the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. Then, in an announcement just eight days later, malware computer specialist Joseph Stewart of SecureWorks, an Atlanta based computer security firm, found obvious patterns in [...](read more...)
by Lindsey Frick | January 22, 2010 (+2)In early September, The Economist announced that it will charge for online content, and this past Wednesday, The New York Times followed suit. With the explosion of Web 2.0, the world’s fascination with social media undoubtedly has and will continue to transform how we communicate, integrating the word “digital” into common business jargon. The consumer is [...](read more...)
by Lindsey Frick | January 15, 2010 (+8)In the first of many phone calls, Ms. Havey, my fabulous kindergarten teacher, contacted my house after school. In her most genuine, grandmother voice, Ms. Havey asked my mother if she was aware that her daughter wanted to grow gross, green scales and be a dinosaur. She continued to explain her concern. In a class assignment, [...](read more...)
by Melody Tran | December 11, 2009
(No Ratings Yet)I don’t know if any of you have noticed or not, but the holidays are here! Tonight is the first night Hannukah and I will be attending a Hannukah dinner. In about two weeks, it will be Christmas. It will most likely be a white Christmas judging from this brutal onslaught of cold weather we [...](read more...)
by Melody Tran | November 30, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Ladies, you know what it’s like to finish a big dinner (Thanksgiving dinner, anyone?) where you had no mercy on your body and inhaled almost everything on the table. Your stomach feels like it’s going to explode, you feel like you ate your weight in food, you don’t regret it…but when you look in the [...](read more...)
by Melody Tran | November 16, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Many students were surprised to come back to campus this September and find large, lit up, red pillar-like figures pointing out campus destinations. The purpose of these incredibly high-budgeted pillars replacing the equally high-budgeted gold leaf signs that still adorn some of the buildings? The classic case of re-branding. As with any change to any brand, there [...](read more...)
