Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Miscellaneous

What are the keys to your heart?

Hmm. Most of these are bang-on, except that the first one has some exceptions. Mostly I’m attracted to the intelligent, loving, creative and fun type, and “good manners and elegance” are niceties – but then again, I don’t know if those are even options, so whatever. 🙂 The Keys to Your Heart You are attracted […]

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Refocus the lenses on the Handycams.

Right now my mind is racing, cruising at an altitude around 35,000 feet. It’s been a crazy week. A quick recap is in order. Last week I headed up to Boston to meet up with one of my future classmates and look for apartments. What I found when I got there was a reintroduction into […]

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The possible treason of Karl Rove.

It’s too big a story to let it be buried. Emails at Time Magazine may reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper’s source, and was responsible for blowing CIA agent Valerie Plame’s cover. More details are here, courtesy of The American Prospect.

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Desperately yearning for a Finishing Season.

So I’m staring at the calendar and at my to-do list and counting down the days until classes start. Lately I’ve been in a high stress place, a perpetual “fight or flight” mindset brought on by desperately wanting to get a bunch of my old side projects finished up and out the door so I […]

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Happy Father’s Day, Dad.

I don’t tell him often enough, but my Dad rocks. Somehow he always knew just the right combination of insightful advice and laissez-faire, “let him figure it out on his own” type of guidance to keep me on the right path growing up without my ever resenting him or feeling the need to rebel. I […]

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Dust, radio silence, and recent events.

So things around here are going to be covered in sawdust for the next little while. I’m making some sorely-needed upgrades to a bunch of different things, moving some stuff around, and conducting a couple of experiments. Things lately have been crazy busy (what else is new, right?) what with my five-year college reunion three […]

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Funny, it seems a little early in the season for ‘sweltering’.

Omigod, it’s 5:30 PM and 91 degrees in Chicago, and my big computer rig is in the part of the apartmenty the furthest away from my air conditioner. I’d move the air conditioner but I think the combination of that sucker’s power draw and the big rig would blow a major fuse. Fark. Guess there’s […]

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Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

I’m posting this courtesy of Puck, my Treo 650. (Yes, Tom, I know it’s also the name of your Mac Mini, but anyone who’s ever held a Treo will appreciate the name.) I just crossed the state line into Michigan, and as a native Ohioan I once again have that unsettling feeling of being a […]

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Reunions, animations, weddings, and other chaos.

Damn, this week has been nuts. Last weekend was my five-year reunion at Kenyon College, which was amazing. It was fantastic to see everyone again, and also a little mindblowing. It had the twin effects of showing me how far we’ve all come and also that it’s really only been five years. I met up […]

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So I apparently have a thing for doctors.

This morning I was crusing through my calendar and found that one of my exes, Amanda Kost, has her birthday coming up on Friday. Now, Apple has a new feature where Address Book can feed birthdays straight to iCal, so I started to update her entry and realized that I didn’t know what her new […]

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