Sat, 17 Jun 2006
A couple months ago on Digg, there was a post about putting a Mont
Blanc refill in a Pilot G2 case. Some of the comments indicated that the
G2 itself was a very good pen. So the last time I went to Wal-Mart, I tried
out the G2, which is a gel ink pen. Unfortunately, it was not designed for
left-handed writers. The ink takes way too long to dry, and if you attempted
to write with it, you would end up with a page full of smudged ink. If you're
one of those lefties who gives us a bad name by turning the paper perpendicular
or even upside-down, perhaps you could make it work, but I'm not familiar
enough with the acrobatics of that method of writing.
I must recommend that the left-handed stick with Pilot's Extra Fine (0.5) VBall
Grip, the ink of which dries quickly enough to cause only the occasional gentle
smudge.
On a related note, Mead sells left-handed notebooks which are just regular
notebooks with the front and back covers swapped so it opens on left and you
write on the page on the left with the spiral on the right. Although I'm a bit
ashamed that it took seeing one of these notebooks to come up with the solution
to spiral hand, I now open all of my notebooks from the "back" and write on the
left page.
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Russell says that blogs need pictures
of their authors. I don't feel strongly one way or the other about it. I
pretty much only read blogs in straw, so I don't see authors' mugs
very often. For those that care, though, I've added my picture. The right side was pretty barren anyway.
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My friend, Mike, is getting
married later this year. I receive a "save the date" notice last week,
followed by a second notice with a correction to the wedding's website.
I really don't understand the point of these notices. In order to send a
save-the-date notificiation, you must already know when the wedding is, and if
you know when the wedding is going to be, you almost certainly know where it's
going to be held, especially if you're the type inclined to send out such
notices. Furthermore, you know who you're going to be inviting because you
wouldn't send a save-the-date notice to somebody who you aren't inviting. So,
if you know all the critical details, why not just send out the invitations?
My hypothesis is that some couple actually had a legitimite need to send out
such notices, such as an impending wedding date without a confirmed location.
But some bachelorette received received one of these notices and decided her
wedding had to have at least everything that her disorganized friend's did. And
at some point, the stationer or wedding planner added save-the-dates to the
checklist, and we'll be forever subject to such silliness until there is a cure
to bridal irrationality syndrome.
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