Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: February 2005


So I’m sitting here in the apartment, and there’s a light snow outside, and I find myself wondering, “Hey! Why is it so bloody cold in here?” And then I realized that it’s been oddly quiet all day. As in, the radiators haven’t been banging and clanging. What. The. Hell.

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So this week I’ve finally started to solve the multicomputer problem. I’d been working on all kinds of different ideas for how to handle syncing my data between my different machines, and finally – with the help of John Hicks I hit upon the solution – queue up the PowerBook as a FireWire drive and […]

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So I mentioned Jason Kottke’s jump to full-time blogging in passing over in the sideblog, and I was going to let it go at that. Yet kottke.org kept popping up in my thoughtflow here this week. for a number of different reasons. The biggest reason is that I’m contemplating ripping off his posting style. See, […]

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Things here are pretty quiet at the moment. Had a fantastic weekend with the Kenyon crowd, but now I’m back to the daily grind and hammering like crazy. It’s 32 degrees and foggy in Chicago. Am considering replacing the top of this weblog with a photo of Maui.

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The old social calendar lately has been packed. Last weekend my parents came into town for a visit, bearing some belated Christmas presents: a set of customized kitchen cabinets and a coffeetable that my Dad and I designed. This thing is amazing – it’s made of solid cherry with a half-and-half stain that really brings […]

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So I’ve been tinkering with Skype, and it’s really impressive. The only problem I have is that I’m already a big iChat AV user. How difficult would it be to build an iChat – Skype bridge? You know, make the sucker totally transparent, so that anyone online with a Skype account would show up in […]

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So it’s possible that “Quackers”, the new version of 43 Things will come through and boggle my mind with its actualization of all my hopes and dreams, but I doubt it. I’m having one of those weeks where I’m getting fed up with not having the system I want in place, and am revisiting the […]

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Derek Powazek is a plague carrier? Unclean! Unclean! I read it on the Internets, so it must be true.

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Just a quick thought: how come there’s never (as far as I know) been a car seat made out of denim? Is it because it wouldn’t be resistant enough to rain and other weather? Anybody know?

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Wow! Christopher Lloyd is playing Lawrence Lessig on The West Wing! Christopher freakin’ Lloyd is playing a public intellectual whom I’ve met on my favorite TV show. You’ll have to excuse me, I’m having a life is pretty freaking cool moment.

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