Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: MIT

SG0813: Illuminated. Kites.

Wherein our hero is awestruck by the simple ingenuity of putting lights on kites. Bonus video:

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SG0812: Digital trees?

Wherein our hero reports in after the Lucasfilm Singapore party and marvels at a canopy of towering structures serving double duty as public art and public function.

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SG0811: Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain…

Wherein our hero, weary but happy, relaxes outside the mall to the lovely sounds of a Christmas typhoon.

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SG0810: @SIGGRAPH.

Wherein our hero reports from the expo floor, remarking on the apparent state of computer graphics in Singapore.

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SG0809: Geekville.

Wherein our hero discovers that days spent in meetings and setting up show booths are bad for blogging.

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SG0808: Christmas on Orchard.

Wherein our hero reports from one of the biggest, most impressive stretches of shopping space he’s ever seen.

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SG0807: 360 Degrees of Singaporean History.

Wherein our hero does his best iPod commercial impersonation while literally surrounded by Singaporean history.

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SG0806: The spice trail.

Wherein our hero reveals his secret foodie nature and miraculously refrains from making a Dune joke.

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SG0805: Hiking in the Park.

Wherein our hero makes the boneheaded mistake of scaling a set of steps up a huge hill at around 11AM near the Earth’s equator. *cough, wheeze*

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SG0804: iHotel.

Wherein our increasingly-exhausted hero sets up camp at the hotel in Singapore, and reflects on what he’s learned in one bewilderingly long day of travel.

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