Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Miscellaneous

My new career in voice acting.

Someday, when I have an entry in the IMDB, it will include something like: Oozerts (2008) (VG) (voice: English version) …. Scoop McGoop Yes, it’s true. I have made my voice acting debut as an irascible Irish monster with a jetpack. And it was awesome. David Hayter, I’m coming for you.

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My new desktop image.

Oh, hell yes.

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Rest in Peace, Grandpa Caleb.

I just found out that John Styn’s beloved Grandpa Caleb passed away yesterday. I’m so sorry, Halcyon.

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Braaaaaaains.

Yesterday Warren Ellis made a cool blog post consisting of an image by Dennis Culver: a zombie astronaut, stranded on an asteroid in space, its helmet shattered and its air cord severed, with a bewildered look on its decaying face and uttering a plaintive “Brains?” It’s a great story-image for all kinds of reasons. Zombies […]

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I knew it!

You Are Batman Billionaire playboy by day. Saving the world by night. And you’re not even a true superhero. Just someone with a lot of expensive toys! What Superhero Are You?

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Closing (tabs) time.

I have to close a ton of tabs in order to reboot a suddenly unstable MacBook Pro. I have not read all of these yet, but they all look interesting, so I thought I would share. BioWare embracing episodic content for all future projects – Joystiq. Inside Bungie – Edge Online. Ban conflict diamonds. Conflict […]

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The Ford Reflex: Hopefully More Than a Concept

Why is it that the coolest cars so rarely make it out of the Concept Car ring at auto shows? Check out the new Ford Reflex, currently on display at Detroit. Homina homina homina.

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Lunchtime quickies.

Couple of quick things while I wait for the microwave to ding: Massachusetts is currently being spanked with cold wind and torrential rain. Not good when you’re supposed to be leaving on a jet plane. “What the hell,” I growled as I punched up weather.com – and then I saw the culprit: Wilma, wending her […]

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Dragons in Tibet?

This is undoubtedly an optical illusion, but it’s so cool to have even a slight hope for something like this… A photo of two peculiar dragon-shaped objects taken from a plane flying over Tibet’s Himalayas piqued many users’ interest when displayed on a Chinese website. The photographer is an amateur. On June 22, 2004, the […]

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God bless the beaver state.

I gotta say, traveloregon.com is one hot piece of web design. And how cool would the Oregon Shakespeare Festival have to be? I mean, seriously? Othello among the pines? Badass.

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