Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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Now there’s an idea.

Ho. Lee. Cats. Nicked from the always-illuminating k10k, there is apparently this little thing out there called a video magazine, and its name is smilefaucet. Weird name, but fantastic idea. I wonder. I wonder.

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Back on the air, updates pending.

Have returned to Chicago. Am exhausted, for many reasons. Updates to follow.

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One thing ends, another begins.

All my love to Heather and Derek. Good on ya, guys.

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Radio silence from Ohio.

Hey, guys. A week ago today my grandma had a massive stroke, and I’ve been here in Ohio ever since. As the modem is apparently broken in my PowerBook, the only place where I can get online is a wifi hotspot in Wooster, which is apparently having some major issues with outgoing ports or something […]

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I’m so going to hell for this.

There’s a story in the New York Times today that

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Spamalot!

I can’t believe I’m scooping Ken on this: David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry and Hank Azaria are bringing Monty Python’s Spamalot musical to Chicago! It’s swinging by here on its way to Broadway. (Thanks, Kori and David!)

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A little beautiful in the morning.

I may have to retract my previous complaint about k10k if they keep posting nifty things like this: The Sad Song. According to k10k, “According to Fredo, ‘it was shot entirely out of sync with a little coolpix775 camera on its side, using the 15 seconds of 15fps video capture capabilities’.” (I was trying to […]

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Sick of the urban.

I am getting so bloody sick and tired of the same crap popping up on all these design portals, like k10k, newstoday, heavy backpack and so on. It’s the same tired, exhausted hipper-than-thou attitude that so pervades just about everything from Gap and Urban Outfitters these days. I’m just sick of it. Sick of the […]

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Revisiting Magellan.

I’ve held off on commenting on all the neat things that Apple announced last week, in part because I wanted to actually sit and watch the QuickTime stream of Steve Jobs’ keynote address myself, and in part because I’ve been insanely busy all week. Now that I’ve finally had an hour to sit and watch, […]

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Along Lake Shore Drive.

OK, one photo before I go to bed.

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