Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Voice: Tip of the Quill

Marketing.

I’ve been working on some marketing materials for Inkblots, to really pump up our output after the first of the year. This afternoon I made a bunch of snarky postcard designs – white postcards with a single quote right in the middle and our logo and URL at the bottom. My favorites:“Like McSweeney’s on crack.”“Like […]

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Philosophical question of the day: what is intelligence?

One of my friends once remarked that someone we knew was a genius, which caught me off-guard because the person in question is largely a memorizer, and has never (to my knowledge) actually synthesized anything new. I agreed that he knew quite a few things, but I had a problem calling him a genius. This, […]

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Birthdays!

So today two of my best friends get old. A great big birthday shout-out goes to Ken and Jesica. I love you guys. Congrats on surviving another year. 🙂

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Piss me off some more, Apple.

Anybody else see this story on Wi-Fi wireless touch-sensitive screens that are meant to be unveiled at Comdex? They’re from Microsoft. While the Tablet PCs are pretty cool, the idea of a touch-sensitive detachable screen that I can carry around in my house, without the bulk of the keyboard, hard drive or anything else, that’s […]

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Paging Mr. Plummer.

I got an interesting email the other day from one Mr. Plummer, warning me to steer clear of the Premiere Wireless Headset. This has me a little confused. I’m assuming this has to do with the posts I made a while back about Bluetooth-enabled wireless phone headsets, but I’m not sure. It’s either that, or […]

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Back.

Well, that was fun. Jen had to make a flying trip back to Cincy in order to ask one of her old professors for a recommendation letter for her grad school application, and since the University of Cincinnati is apparently letting out for Thanksgiving early, Jen had to meet with the prof during office hours […]

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We’ve gotta be where? When?

Sudden road trip just sprang up. I’ll be back either late tomorrow or sometime on Saturday.

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Yo-Yo Ma switched!

Whoa! I was just watching The West Wing, and up pops a new Apple switch ad, with a fellow that looked fairly familiar. And at the end, wham! “I’m Yo-Yo Ma, and I play the cello.” Cool!

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On digital storytelling.

There’s a funny thing about spending as much time as I do thinking about digital storytelling. I, for one, do not believe that digital storytelling needs to be interactive. We’ve had interactive fiction before – anyone who has ever read a choose-your-own-adventure book has experienced it. Interactive storytelling need not be digital storytelling, and vice-versa. […]

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Carrie returns!

My friend Carrie has returned to the web with a new weblog, this one posted from her new home at Biosphere 2 out in Arizona. I have such cool friends.

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