Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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From the “ya think?” department…

Man, check this out: according to The New York Times article “

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Bitchin’ Camaro! Bitchin’ Camaro!

OK, so I know this is probably against some basic designer’s rule of ethics, but I’m working on a concept for a client tonight and I had to share this one, just because it’s such a radical departure from my usual style, and I’m jazzed about it. Check out my bitchin’ Camaro! Somehow I doubt […]

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Quick bit of pride.

One more quick thing before I go tumbling back into the professional abyss. Long-time readers will be familiar with my plans to build a system called Magellan, which is designed to be a massive overarching personal management system. Finances, long-term projects, to-do lists, all of this stuff was to be included in the system. I’ve […]

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The joys of small business.

There is a unique pleasure *cough* to spending two hours on a Thursday morning tring to get your Excel spreadsheet, your copy of Quicken, and your bank statements to all line up and march in step. It’s a good thing I’m the son of a CFO and some of this stuff is genetically genuinely interesting. […]

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Three things to be learned at a Dunkin Donuts at 11PM on a Wednesday.

Despite the fact that they are the same shape as a cream stick, the same size as a cream stick, and the same color as a cream stick, the vanilla long johns are not, in fact, cream sticks. They are, indeed, cream sticks without the cream, thus losing the best part and, in one’s humble […]

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Argh.

I am so not a programmer. MySQL can bite my butt.

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Crazy, crazy day.

Wow. I just want to go on record as saying that yesterday was insane. I got a whole bunch done that I wanted to, a ton that I needed to, and set the gears a-grinding to do some other nifty projects. A workaholic’s work is never done, thank God. This morning I woke up feeling […]

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I’d like to go back there someday.

I would greatly like to go back to the world from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. I’m sitting here watching the DVDs, listening to Mr. Gaiman’s commentary, enjoying his little comments and whatnot, and wondering what else he has in store for those characters. In the meantime, I’m still finishing. Another project and another link will be […]

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Finishing Season, 2.1: PinDrop Audiobook Theatre!

I haven’t done this in a while, and a whole frickin’ bunch of projects are now wrapping up, so I thought I’d make a couple more Finishing Season posts this week. First up is The PinDrop Audiobook Theatre Company, a new group here in Chicago that’s aiming to bring a new level of drama to […]

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Land. Speed. Record.

So yesterday my friend Matt shot me an email with a problem. He’s starting up a small company and he needs a website, el pronto. Usually this wouldn’t be a challenge, but I’m on my way out of town this weekend for a reunion with some old Kenyon compadres and he needs it done by […]

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