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Farewell, Sweet Palm; Welcome iPhone

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I finally threw caution to the wind. I finally broke up with my steady er, phone service. I finally was fully seduced by what many call the jesusphone. I just spent all night syncing music to it… ratcheting back from being able to have all my music is hard. I already slapped 12g on there […]

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Doane & Rhodia Paper Review

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If I want to write with nice pens, I am going to want to write on nice paper. My main issue was fretting that cheap paper is going to accumulate microscopic paper muck in my fountain pen nibs and clog same. To that end I decided to find paper to bring to work with me, […]

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Typotheque 2009 Calendar

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Notebookism recently had a post plugging the Typotheque 2009 limited edition pocket calendar/sketchbook. I was in a whimsical mood, so I bought one even though I have a notebook that I really need to fill (that is a whole other post) and even though it had to ship from Denmark. There were some Concerned Noises coming […]

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Specs

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I am wearing my old glasses today. The ones that a mother actually could love. In thinking about getting new glasses again since I’m going to hit that 2 year mark sooner or later (and my damn lenses are getting scratched up because I am brutal on glasses), I realized I needed to know if […]

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My Early Christmas

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Been waiting for a long time for this. Lots of people have. Fans all over the world are busting into their new box sets (1970 – 1975) and listening to remixes only dreamed about thus far. Let’s not even begin to discuss the extras. Heaven! That’s not the only early christmas present in this photo, […]

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A&P II, Interrupted

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We still don’t have a permanent professor. It’s been 3 class sessions with either no teacher or a sub, and 3 class sessions with no lecture to speak of; maybe I’d call it 4 since one of the subs was a little lost. This is pretty tough for me, feeling a little rudderless in a […]

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Goodbye Old Friend

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I’m in the midst of a real, true “day off”. That means I’m fiddling around with things around the house I typically neglect entirely like clearing out all the magazines from the bathroom reading depot from the past 2 years. Jack is doing something that involves every old hard drive we have in the house […]

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