Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: August 2003


You know you’re growing up when you learn how to turn things off.

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So the last couple of days have been a real maelstrom of activity ’round these parts. Lawn mowed! Leaves raked! Rooms swept, dusted, and tidied! Little things fixed after months’ worth of “Yeah, I’ll get to that sooner or later.” This place is like a whole new house. I’m lovin’ it. We should have guests […]

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Oh, wow. Filming begins late next month on The Life Aquatic, the new film from Wes “The Royal Tenenbaums” Anderson and Henry “The Nightmare Before Christmas” Selick. I wish I could preorder my tickets right now.

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Boy, if this won’t make you swear off fast food forever… Kid orders a 20×20 at In-and-Out Burger – in other words, twenty patties and twenty pieces of cheese. Boy, crap like this is exactly what Friday afternoons were invented for.

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You’re making me pretentious. You wouldn’t like me when I’m pretentious.

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Well, I finally did it. This evening I ran down to the Apple Store in Tyson’s Corner and picked up my very own copy of Final Cut Pro 4. The reason? I need to do a very short “talking head” Dreamsbay commercial for some friends of mine. I’ll see if I can post the final […]

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While theatlantic.com is The Atlantic Monthly online, I am mindbendingly flattered by the comparison over at KevinSmokler.com. Thanks, man!

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Courtesy of this morning’s romp through k10k: the very smooth, elegant and fascinating web home of Working Title Films. Which reminds me, I need to keep hammering on the flashier relaunch of dreamsbay.com. So much to do…

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Courtesy of Jish, comic military hand signals. “This is what I think of your opinion.” Heh.

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This morning, the one and only Jeffrey Zeldman dropped a little bombshell on the Web World: he and Douglas Bowman will be working to redesign apple.com using web standards. Way to go, Zeldman! Beautiful wife, tiptop clients… Sounds like 2003 is shaping up to be a red-letter year for the stockingcapped wonder.

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