Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Travel

SG0803: Singapore!

Wherein our hero reaches Singapore at last, and realizes that the key to creating an airport that feels welcoming, as opposed to industrial and cold, is a combination of color and foliage.

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SG0802: Heathrow.

Wherein our hero reflects on the pug ugliness of Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal 5, which looks like the Airport That IKEA Built – and not in a good way.

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SG0801: The kickoff!

A little context: I turned 31 on Saturday, at which point I promptly fled to country for Singapore. America is a country for the young, I decided. I will therefore leave it to its starlets and its High School Musicals. No, actually I’m in Singapore to help shill for GAMBIT at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, where […]

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Greece 2008 Part III: Athens.

I carry a small black Moleskine with me at all times with five colored pens clipped to its outside: black, red, green, blue and purple. Every week I recopy my to-do list from an old page to a new page, gritting my teeth and grumbling as I transcribe all the stuff that I’m meaning to […]

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