Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Life

A week of, well, me.

So somehow this has managed to be my week on the web. For the interested, there’s a four-part “exit interview” with me over at the Official C3 Weblog (1, 2, 3, 4), a very cool shout-out from my friend and fellow media scholarly-type Robert Kozinets over at his blog Brandthroposophy, and finally a two-part (at […]

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Geoffrey vs. the Inbox.

If you’re waiting to hear back from me about something, stay tuned. I’m currently waging war against an overflowing inbox. When I started the evening, I had 170 actionable personal, non-work related emails in my inbox. Nearly five hours and a 2700-word essay later, I’m down to 84 79. Progress! Slow, painful progress, but progress! […]

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The new dayjob!

So, for those of you who have been wondering what I’ve been alluding to for the last couple of weeks or so, methinks it’s time to finally let the cat out of the bag. I’ve been offered, and accepted, the position of Communications Director for the MIT Comparative Media Studies program and the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT […]

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LOLbots.

Everyone and their brother has seen a variant of the LOLcats meme – a saccharine-sweet picture of a kitten (or kitteh, in LOLcats speak) with a l33tspeak-esque caption photoshopped on, often in bitmapped Helvetica or something like it. Well, rstevens of Diesel Sweeties fame has co-opted thememe and unleashed LOL BOTS upon the world. It […]

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Movable Type 4 beta!

I’m excited about the newly-announced Movable Type 4 Beta for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is the local registration system. If I built this into the site so people could have their comment names and emails saved, so they could comment without waiting for me to approve it, would you guys […]

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On the shredding of magazines.

I mentioned this briefly in my last post, and I was going to leave it at that, but then I carved up a particularly massive issue of GQ and realized that I still had something left to say. My relationship with magazines is a weird one. I subscribe to at least half a dozen different […]

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All roads lead to…

This weekend I availed myself of Dotster’s Memorial Day sale – half off all .com, .net and .org domains with the right code, and please don’t start in with the “Yeah, but so-and-so is always cheaper, blah blah” because I’ve used Dotster since like 2002 and am a faithful customer, so there – and now […]

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So very, very true.

I know this feeling all too well – curse you, wikipedia! And weblogs! And newssites! And games! And, and, and… Yeah!

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Our thoughts exactly, Tom.

My friends Ivan and Vicki and I watched the season finale of 24 on Monday night and we, like most of America, shared a moment of delightful commisseration with Peter MacNicol’s Tom Lennox: (Image by Ivan, of course.)

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Barry Kudrowitz, Boy Genius.

Remember my friend Barry, the guy with the Toy Design Workshop I’ve been yammering about here? Yeah. He’s a freakin’ genius. He’s also the player in the wide-collar suit about halfway through that video. (Warning: big movie!) Any of you cats who wonder what life is like at MIT, it’s just like this.

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