Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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How apropos.

Courtesy of Dave Barry, check out the name of Microsoft’s lawyers of choice in the following article: Yahoo! News – Microsoft Takes on Teen Over Web Site. Niiiice.

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On gay marriage.

So apparently the buzz is that Dubya wants to lay down a ban on gay marriage. What I don’t get is that we don’t ban Hindi marriages, Muslim marriages, Jewish marriages or atheist marriages, all of whom consist of people who are deemed as going to hell in the Bible. Doesn’t this imply that marriage […]

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Moleskine notebooks in Bethesda.

To the person who Googled moleskine notebooks in bethesda or washington, your best bets are pretty much any Barnes and Noble in the area, or The Art Store in Georgetown. Good luck! (Hey, when you’re the only result on Google for something, you feel sort of honor-bound to provide some answers.)

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I’m a bad, bad man.

So on a lark I was reviewing our referrer logs tonight while watching Shanghai Knights and doing a little work. Check this out. I am now responsible for completely hosing an otherwise respectable Google search: how to make inkblots. Check out result number one.

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From music to muzak in fifty bucks.

So yesterday, a nation full of pimply-faced, weaselly little nerds fell to their knees and thanked Steve Jobs for enabling them to live out their lives as rock and roll superstars. The air quivered with the dull plastic thud-thud-thud of millions of little Rosses noodling away on their new MIDI keyboards, building great cacophonies of […]

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Advertising?

Hey, folks, I need some opinions here. I’m throwing ideas around for ways to make things go a little smoother fiscally around these parts, and I’m giving some serious consideration to adding Google keyword ads to the sidebar of the site, just below that nav box. I’ve kept that area open for a reason kind […]

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Listen to this.

If you haven’t heard it yet, Ryan Adams’ cover of Oasis’ “Wonderwall” is really fantastic. It’s available on the Apple Store for a buck. Definitely worth a buck.

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Build crew at work.

The last two days have been really interesting, workwise. Wound up modifying a Flash page turn animation for a potential client, chatted with what feels like a dozen other folks, and hammered up a new blue-sky concept for a friend’s site. All this, and worked on some new comps for a secret project Nick and […]

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Ah, crap.

This was so not what I wanted to hear. Apparently one of my all-time favorite Mexican restaraunts totally tips the scales when it comes to calories. Read the bad news for yourself: Fresh Mex: Not Always Healthy Mex. Apparently one of their vegetarian burritos has over 1,120 calories. Dangit. I guess I should have expected […]

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Sweet ride.

I do believe I have found my next set of wheels.

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