Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: November 2003


As I noted before, I’m trying to get three more sites done before the end of the year. One of those sites is the official site for the Virtual Book Tour. Kevin and I spent a few hours talking about it last night, sitting in the World Cafe in Baltimore and hacking out ideas in […]

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This weekend I made a last-minute flying trip to The Big Apple to see my girlfriend. Added bonus fun: she wasn’t expecting me, so it was a real surprise. So much fun – the big event of the visit was a one-act festival, where Kate directed The Choir Loft and starred in Medusa’s Tale, and […]

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Upon reviewing my personal timeline, I discovered that I’ve developed seventeen websites this year. My goal here is to do three more before the end of the year, to hit the big twenty. Based on my to-do list right now, that shouldn’t be a problem. Now, as for finishing my novel before I hit 26… […]

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I was planning to go up to New York today, but that plan was laid to waste by some factors outside my control. Instead, tonight I got into a fight with Kate, and am now lying on the couch watching some TV show on UFO crashes. Somebody call me up to do something cooler than […]

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Following up my review of the Adobe CS suite, comes the tragic news that as of November 15 Adobe LiveMotion 2.0 is dead. As a result, I am now seriously investigating Flash again. Argh. That said, there’s a part of me that knows that anytime something genuinely pisses me off, it’s probably something that’s going […]

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So, on a whim, I googled myself. I was pleased to discover that I not only hold the top page rank for “Geoffrey Long”, but I totally dominate the entire first page. A little further, and I will own ‘Geoffrey Long’ on Google. Mwa ha ha ha. However, I did find another Geoffrey Long out […]

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I really need to start writing these down. Lately the old imagination has been bubbling up again with story ideas, but not when I’m near pen and paper. A while ago I spun this whole story for Kate about a small family in a small town on a small island out in the middle of […]

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Look, I feel sorry for the guy. I do. His whole life has been completely outside the faintest semblance of normality, and he’s become such a caricature of himself that it’s really tragic, but still: this mugshot of Michael Jackson is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen. That… That… That’s just not right. […]

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Quiet morning, just the way I love them. No sound except for the occasional car passing by outside, the whir of my laptop, the click-clack of the keys beneath my fingers, and the wind past my window. We refer to literary magazines as journals due to the personal snapshot nature of good poetry. It is […]

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Wow. I so shouldn’t still be awake. Still, since I am, I thought I’d share a couple neat things that I’ve found lately, just to clear them out of my mental cache. (And to behave a little more like a weblog should, if you believe that kind of thinking.) Jewelboxing One of the most oddly […]

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