Needing to know

It’s a long-running storyline cliché in chick-flicks: one of the female leads is hurt so badly by a man… that when she turns to her girlfriend for a shoulder to cry on, the friend then with sharp concern demands to know what He did, and the hurt-ee pleads, “I can’t talk about it right now- just be my friend and hold me while I cry.”

The natural human instinct to comfort tends to trump the

Posted at 4pm on 07/04/08 | 2 comments | Filed Under: geekspeek, media read on

Test Ride Day: Hooray!

For the last month I’ve been volunteering at The Crucible in Oakland, teaching kids how to wrench on bikes in an after-school program called “Earn A Bike.” On the first week the kids pick a “bike” (usually a safe and shiny frame covered in broken cables & housings… and if we’re lucky, there’s one derailleur and maybe a wheel) from a pile of rescued rides in need of much love. Over the next 6

Posted at 3am on 05/28/08 | no comments | Filed Under: yes read on

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I’m Nina Alter. I’m a designer, and a contributing artist at SRL. I make things usable and pretty. I also like to blow things up. I think- probably too much. I live in San Francisco.

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