Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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I’ve been busy.

For your viewing pleasure (and my ego), a sampling of the freelance work I’ve been doing lately: twenty-seven of my favorite collaborations between The Dreamsbay Company and Sound Advice. Check out the middle one in the second row: it never produces the same two patterns of dots twice, my first venture into ActionScript programming. Warning: […]

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My friends rock.

So Jesica has a theater troupe who just got another great review. You go, girl. I’m so proud of you!

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Ew. I mean, ew.

A whole bunch of sickos out there are celebrating because as of today, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are legal. (Not work safe, but funny. In an ewwww sort of way.)

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Why Garfield sucks.

Wow. When I was younger I thought that Garfield was really funny, but in its later years (like now) had somehow started to suck. Now, in a piece over at Slate called Garfield – Why we hate the Mouse but not the cartoon copycat, we learn that not only has the strip always sucked, but […]

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Jewelboxen!

So in this recent flurry of business expenses, I finally placed an order for my own batch of Jewelboxing cases. I’d been following these guys since their launch, since I’m sort of a Coudal and 37signals devotee. And, hell, when even Brian Taylor gets into the mix, you know the sucker’s gotta be some kind […]

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This town is manic.

Chicago has the craziest weather I’ve ever seen. Hotter than heck in the afternoon, and then wham, a big ol’ thunderstorm rolls in off the lake with a bunch of cold air and the temp drops like twenty degrees in 45 minutes. It’s like Mother Nature needs Prozac. I just walked downstairs to stick my […]

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Back to my roots.

This week has been insane, workwise. Last night I stayed up until almost 4AM working on a client project, only to have it torpedoed this morning because the client couldn’t get it to look right coming out of her home printer. Irritated and frustrated, I stormed out onto the Internet and started doing some research. […]

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Spin control.

OK, so here’s the scenario. On Monday, Apple introduced the AirPort Express, which seems like a pretty gee-darn revolutionary idea. An audio-streaming, print-serving Wi-Fi repeater. Pretty cool. (And not, apparently, able to do what I’d intended, but I may be wrong.) Lots of good press ensues. The Mac world is chockablock with good feelings. Gizmodo […]

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AirPort Express: sign me up!

How cool is this? AirPort Express is a tiny little base station designed for portability. Man, I’ll take three: one to replace my outdated original base station, one for my stereo, and if my theory is correct, one for the PC on our network that we’re struggling to get online. My big question there is, […]

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Fragmentation [poetic] devices.

OK, so I thought that a long time ago I made a post about how I keep having this beginning to a poem snaking its way through my brain: “It is in this way that…” I like the cadence of that, but I’m not sure what comes next. It is in this way that the […]

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