Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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This will do nicely, thank you.

Ask and ye shall receive. It’s not any of the artists I was whining for earlier, but there’s a new album out from Diana Krall, called The Girl in the Other Room. What’s great about this album is it has new songs. Usually Diana’s albums are all covers of jazz classics, but this one features […]

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A little thing, but a pretty thing.

One of my clients is a startup medical practice up in Boston called Renaissance Health. We’re working on putting together their full website, but even the placeholder site I threw together is kind of pretty. Ah, Italy!

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Education president, my ass.

In this morning’s New York Times, they ran a story on Steve Stanzak, an NYU Creative Writing student who claims to have been living in a subbasement of the library because he couldn’t afford university dorm housing, much less an apartment in New York. I believe it. When I was looking into grad programs at […]

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Maybe I’m the afterglow.

I am hereby bummed because neither R.E.M., Counting Crows, Tori Amos, or any of my favorite groups have new albums on the immediate horizon. The Crows have one track on the Shrek 2 soundtrack, Tori has another B-sides collection coming out, and apparently R.E.M. just released some new live DVD, but I want albums, dang […]

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God bless rainy days.

Sometimes the Lord sends just the right kind of day at the right time. Today was a green, beautifully rainy day. No violent thunderstorms, just spring showers. I did some work, listened to some Norah Jones and Pat Metheny, updated my personal timeline, snuggled down in one of my favorite soft sweaters and hung out […]

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Who is that guy?

You know how Alex Trebek still doesn’t look quite right without his moustache? Yeah, it’s the same thing with the beardless Salman Rushdie. Weird.

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A collage of cerebral collisions.

My brain tonight is bouncing from one piece of media to another, in part due to the recent infusion of Tarantino’s Kill Bill Volumes I and II. I missed the first one in the theater, so I rented it this week as background noise during the workathon, then caught the sequel with Nick Ferraro in […]

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A tragic lesson that extends perfectly to consulting.

So apparently the casino garage collapse that killed four construction workers and injured twenty others was

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Another round of Finishing Season coming soon.

I’ve been working like a mad fiend here these last couple of weeks, and it’s not going to be slowing down too much very soon. Keep an eye on this space for new announcements!

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A dumb idea, but a fun one.

So I’m sitting here working like crazy, and I fired up Barenaked Ladies’ “Another Postcard” in iTunes and then launched another app. I’m staring at the dock, and damned if the app icon wasn’t bouncing in time to the rhythm of the song. It’d be a ridiculous waste of processing resources, but how neat would […]

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