Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Uncategorized

2013 nothin’.

So in the April issue of Wired, they’ve posted a wish list for 2013. On it is a wrist-based iPod that sounds a lot like what I’ve been clamoring for on this weblog for the last little while now.

leaf

Writing style by Gaiman and Carroll, hair by Fiennes.

So I got into this long conversation tonight with my friend Laurie (yes, the same Laurie I mentioned earlier). Somehow we got onto the topic of hairstyles, and I mentioned that my long-running preference for kinda-long hair was founded a loooong time ago. And, believe it or not, I think I can actually pin a […]

leaf

Of course.

All web geeks will know exactly which browser I’m referring to if I mention “the bane of CSS”. That’s right, Netscape 4.7. So, which browser do you think my main contact on this job is using? You get one guess. Of course.

leaf

Closer still.

Narrowing the gap between me and my vision of a portable communications network are the following cool new toys: the forthcoming AMPpack from Burton The LINK headphones from SkullCandy (headphones for both your cell and your iPod) Bluetooth and Wi-Fi SD cards SD radio tuner These are all still just steps in the right direction […]

leaf

Exhausted but happy.

So last night I went out with my friend Laurie, and after driving around town for a while just talking, we wound up going to see The Core at the Wooster Movies 10. It was actually a better movie than I expected, but that may have had more to do with the way we saw […]

leaf

A fictional interview.

The first thing I noticed about him were the tattoos. It wasn’t something I’d expected, really, not at all in keeping with the way I’d originally imagined him. Sure, he was still tall, and broad, and had a way of looking at you from over his silver-rimmed glasses that seemed like a strange cross between […]

leaf

Channeling Josh Davis.

So I’m back in Ohio, remaking a website I built five years ago. It’s mildly horrifying opening up pages built in GoLive CyberStudio 3 — it’s all table-based, utterly unexpandable stuff. It’s vindicating too, though, being able to fix all these things using CSS and, in so doing, both make the site accessible and improve […]

leaf

Mediated.

This weblog has been mediated for my protection. See you later.

leaf

Designer, design thyself.

So why is it that I can create websites for anybody other than me? Clients, no problem. Friends, no problem. My own company and personal site, problem. There’s a reason dreamsbay.com, geoffreylong.com and even Inkblots here haven’t been updated in a while. I think I’m going to throw over this whole Interweb thing and join […]

leaf

I hate Bill Coughlan.

I just want to say that my friend Bill Coughlan is an evil, cruel bastard. I spent all damn afternoon walking around feeling really stoked, really inspired to get moving on my novel again, to dive back into all my attempts to get my old projects off the drawing boards and make ’em real. All […]

leaf