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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 29/09/2026

Let me tell you a little about upstate:

Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 29/09/2026

A weird side effect of writing shaders for knickknack - a parser for Adobe Type 2 fonts that could then be used to create '3D Type' It was, after all, the era of flying logos. #typography #pixar #history

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 27/09/2026

Extra alt.hostory, IIRC they REd it so they could make a chess font? A great friend of mine, John Renner, made a Metafont called Cheq Pi and associated package TeXTile. When he started at Adobe in the mid-late 80s, he turned into a PostScript font, and was responsible for the IPA font for Stone.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 27/09/2026

Later, I switched to a Bananas in Pyjamas stamp as my ex libris. Chris Wedge showed me how to use pink pearl erasers from the supply closet to make stamps.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 27/09/2026

Newspaper bookmark from the very long gone Columbus C-J. Complete with architecture school doodles

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 25/09/2026

I walked by this poster 2 hours after the screening started. I am sad I missed it.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 20/09/2026

My entry is slightly less academic.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 17/09/2026

These guys from Davey just dropped a -gigantic- dead pine tree in my backyard and I unintentionally caught a moment of great celebration. I felt good for them. Then I wrote a gigantic check. You'd -think- homeowners insurance would cover prophylactic tree work, like tooth-cleaning. You'd be wrong

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 15/09/2026

FINALLY - NYT asking the right questions.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 10/09/2026

I have a special Zotero tag

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 19/08/2026

I noticed my birth week in 64 was big on bathroom fixtures and acoustical tile design patents. Also something I’ve never seen explicitly but “Plant patents”

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 19/08/2026

This took an afternoon or two to draw.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 19/08/2026

Conflict Catcher - do a binary search through your macOS Extensions to figure out what was breaking all your stuff. #macOS #cc3 #floppyscans #mine

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 18/08/2026

I just retweeted this and it seems painfully relevant.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 16/08/2026

Occasional floppy disk post - Adobe Streamline. #adobe #history #folklore #scans #mine

A scan of a floppy disk from Flip Phillips' personal collection of old stuff.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 13/08/2026

When I tell people that we used to run Speed Doubler, Disk Doubler and RAM Doubler on our Macs, they giggle with disbelief. #mine #history #macOS #connectix #notaislop

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 13/08/2026

If anyone would like to rent a few BetaMax tapes, feel free to use my # from 1988 #video #rental #card #broadway #fairfax #mine

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 12/08/2026

There is only one true Armada:

KITH Rod Torfulson’s Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 10/08/2026

Surprised that today's agenda includes some time to play. I wonder if it's East or West coast.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 08/08/2026

Island chain for scale… holy moly.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 07/08/2026

A visit to my stop motion friends.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 06/08/2026

Old Polonium negative brush! Pretty sure that, half-life wise, we’re OK. (Expired in Jan 1970) I gave it a good lick and it was greeted with the sweet taste of Lead.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 05/08/2026

Impertinent Ivan - from my friend Paul’s book

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 05/08/2026

If your drug label doesn’t feature a skeletal beat-down with a bottle of yourself, is it even a valid remedy?

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 03/08/2026

I am putting in a request for my office.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 29/07/2026

Have you ever wondered how to Prolong the Life of Your Fez?

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 23/07/2026

I didn’t know you can travel with a carryon sewing machine

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 21/07/2026

I was bestowed with a SIGGRAPH Pioneer pin-

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 17/07/2026

Great moments in AI transcription: they want 'answers', not 'hamsters'. #aifail

"so if you want to give us hamsters, now is the time to give them to us"
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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 16/07/2026

With cardboard comes great privilege.

Cardboard medallion bag tag. Voodoo doll, monkeys, kittens, Ryan Gossling, Cell Phones, Chickens, Dog food. Jills Cat Food.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 16/07/2026

Hot take - This year's DCI books are pretty boring. Challenging. Lots of note ramming. SCV has no drum set (yay!). Interesting music here and there but very little recognizable. Not always bad, but very generic sounding. #DCI #DrumCorps #oneradioheadpiece

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 06/07/2026

Is your Canadian VRBO even complete without a beaver floatie?

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