Sometimes I can get a little obsessive.
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
There is no such thing as private ownership of a pen. The banks try to put them on a leash, but most of them circulate through the population until they run out of ink. Like pipes at a Grateful Dead concert -- you arrive with one, and leave with one, but it's not usually the same one.
ReplyDeleteMatt inLancaster LOL!
ReplyDeleteThe last man who didn't return a pen of mine is six feet under.
Hello. My name is Julia and I'm a Pen-aholic.
ReplyDeleteI've been addicted to pens for quite some time and have only recently been able to resist purchasing new ones. As delightful as it was to find a fellow addict, this article might possibly lead to a relapse.
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George Carlin described this perfectly when he talked about what happens when you die. You get back all the stuff you lost during your life. St. Peter: "Here you go, 67 ball-point pens, two wallets, three sets of car keys, 152 coat hangers, one pack of cigarettes, three dozen single socks..."
ReplyDeleteI love that you not only revel in the obsession but also share with your kids!
ReplyDeleteThe OHTO Multi Slim 4 (black, blue, red, 0.5 mm pencil) is my current favorite, so of course it's no longer available. Among the features I like are the polymer eraser under the cap, and the minimalist two-button UI. You choose a color by holding the pen horizontally with the name of the color facing up, then press the cap to extend the point. Press the button near the top of the clip to retract.
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Adam Liss Yep, these so-called "gravity selectors" (because they work based on which side is up) are one feature we did not want to include in our candidate set, mostly because they tend to cost more (the mechanism is a bit more complex) and partly because I don't tend to prefer them (give me a dedicated button anytime). That said, I believe Rotring has what you're looking for: amazon.com - Amazon.com : rOtring Multi-Function Pen, Four-In-One, 0.5mm Mechanical Pencil with Black/Red/Blue Ballpoint Pen in Triangle Package (502-700F) : Office Products
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle Ha! I replaced my Rotring with the OHTO after I lost it. :) Thanks for the link, though!
ReplyDeleteI think my head just asploded:
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I’m more of a mechanical pencil person, myself.
ReplyDeletePaula Moore I tried a mechanical pencil but I got tired of paying for the oil changes...
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this. Despite it's uselessness, I did find it both entertaining as well as informative. 🖊
ReplyDeleteI got no. 5 a few months ago. I am never going back.
ReplyDeleteThe 4 colour bic was the iconic pen of school. But for exams or control, we needed to use blue ink fountain pen. And I prefer fountain pen till now.
ReplyDeleteOlivier Malinur Fountain pens are a class of writing instrument I've always been envious of those who mastered it. For me, it was always "scritch, scritch" and, oh, look, a big blob of ink. I tend to press harder than necessary when writing...a bad habit developed as a kid.
ReplyDeleteMy wife has the same problem. She holds the fountain pen too vertically. There was a time I could even master the "plein" and "delie", the thick and thin part of cursive letters when writing everyday writing (I have never been good in calligraphy).
ReplyDeleteNow, too much typing plus some nervous/muscular right hand shake is making it difficult.
Mechanical pencil person here. My favorites are the now long-extinct Pentel PSD5, the Rotring 800, the Pilot Automac, and the Super Promecha PM-1505S. The last is also out of production, replaced by the 1505P which is less frobbity. Note that all of them are retractable. The last one has adjustable retraction/lead extension.
ReplyDeleteThe Pentel 5 Kerry is good too.
I really like fountain pens too but find I can't write with them because I'm left handed. I smear everything as I write.
Good Lord! If I pick up a pen and it writes, I'm good. I'm one of the folks that causes the banks to leash their pens, and the grocery stores to put blue pens in red casing to discourage people from swiping them.
ReplyDeleteNoah Friedman When I was a kid my uncle used to say that left-handedness was a sign of poor toilet training. I've had left-handed friends and some of them actually were well-trained. So I think Snopes would have to grade that claim "mixed."
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle, what do you think about multi-function pens with styluses?
ReplyDeletePatrik Hanson I don't use a stylus anymore, so ..
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle - I guess that's a negative opinion then. 😉
ReplyDeleteI have a pen that works on a smartfone screen. When you retract the ball point, the tip of the pen has a rubber "foreskin" that feels like a finger on the fone screen. This actually could be a handy feature for smartfone users. I have a flip fone, so I don't need the foreskin. Like every other pen, I got this from somebody else for free.
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