I find that they're great for headings, titles, dates, etc - a little emphasis in my notes. With that said, my pilot metropolitan's stub nib has also always been really scratchy too, and hard starts a lot. It's always been one of my most disappointing pens.
One of my favorite stub nibs is a Jinhao 80 (Lamy 2000 clone, usually sub-$10). I swapped out the Jinhao nib for a Lamy 1.1 stub, and it writes like a dream!
Nice - I had misread this as Diamine Earl Grey at first, and was very confused ("I've used this before and don't remember any orange tones!"). But it does look beautiful!
Saddle Brown also looks very nice and versatile. Do you think that you need a medium nib to get the full spectrum of shading? I've sometimes been disappointed with browns that are too light with an F nib (bought a sample of Robert Oster Caffe Crema, but it really was too light for my daily use unless in an M, B, or stub).
The show is inane, but the music slaps.
First of all, Carmen Carter absolutely kills the vocals on SuperKitties Theme and SuperKitty Call, both hard driving 70s-ish action theme vibes. Take the xylophone solos on SuperKitty Call and inject them into my veins. My Bath, My Bubbles and Me is a goddam bop. Always In My Heart is a tearjerker that would fit in just fine on your favorite boy band album. And even the rough ones (like Cheese) are only 60 seconds long, so they're over before they can get too annoying.
Am I right, or am I just going insane because this is LITERALLY THE ONLY MUSIC I'VE BEEN ALLOWED TO LISTEN TO FOR THE LAST MONTH?
The Diamine guitar inks just generally look like nice autumn inks - nice!
That is a pretty fascinating ink - seems to be a totally different color depending on nib and paper...
As we round the corner into autumn in the northern hemisphere, the air is a little crisper, the days are shorter, and the leaves are changing... and looking for some new inks to try out. Do you have favorite inks for the season?
Yeah, I barely use quick tap. The swipe down was so intuitive, and with a bigger phone triple tapping requires you to rebalance the phone in your hand, etc.
Do you have Quick Tap enabled? I have mine set up to show notifications (I miss the old ability to swipe down on the rear fingerprint reader), but yours might be set up to play/pause media.
Is it just the "blowhole" described here?
https://fountainpenchronicles.blog/2022/06/27/breathe-just-breather-tube/
I don't have one of these, unfortunately, so don't have a comparison...
Follow-up - I bought this and it works great! And yes - it is really thick. I think the reams of the usual printer paper at the office are going to develop an inferiority complex. Thanks again for the recommendations!
Mostly Leuchtturm, mainly because I really like their notebooks and the variety of them that are available. The paper is fine, but not like tomoe or anything like that. I mostly write at work during meetings etc., so the notebook is equally important to me. Open to other suggestions though!
There is !reddead@lemmy.world, but it's pretty quiet. You could try posting there to get some of that content going. It's a bit of a vicious cycle, though - the lack of content drives people away, leading to less content.
I will say that even in smaller communities I find that people are quite helpful here with questions, which is great.
It does seem like the post reddit boom of interaction and growth has waned, thought, and many of the communities that were starting to grow are now much quieter than they were a few weeks ago. I think that the lemmy.world downtime for so long really drove people away, which is a shame.
Black out shades for the nursery if you don't have them... We live at a pretty northern latitude and in the summer the kid would never sleep! There are some cheap ones that suction cup to the windows, which are great for travel too and won't break the bank.
We bought one color changing smart lightbulb for the nursery lamp and it was a great idea. You can turn it red and still be able to see when you come in at night, like a darkroom, while still being able to navigate the room and not trip over stuff.
Echoing the white noise machine. A cheap smart speaker (Google mini) can also be useful - you can adjust the volume from outside the room; there are ton of white noise podcasts, and if your kid likes music instead, you can start with that and switch to white noise.
Yeah, even though slow motion makes it look worse, I was shocked that it wasn't given in real time. But the commentary team was convinced that it was just a natural body position. I continue to have no idea what constitutes a handball in the box.
- Wake up
- Fall out of bed
- Drag a comb across my head
- Find my way downstairs
- Drink a cup
- Look up and notice I am late
- Find my coat
- Grab my hat
- Make the bus in seconds flat
For those of us who used sync for reddit regularly for years, it's pretty cheap. But if it doesn't fit your needs, thankfully you have plenty of other options these days!
We did that for a number of years and they do work OK. Two or three years ago, we finally broke down and bought standalone air purifiers when we had a newborn. I know they're expensive, but if you get them off season they're much cheaper. Might consider it if you're going to be in Seattle for the long haul, unfortunately... They work well, are pretty energy efficient, and are much quieter than the box fans.
These longer-range forecasts should be considered very rough approximations, but it’s hard to see the smoke going away with weak steering currents expected to remain in place through the end of August.
Good thing we've still got some N95s in storage!
This sounds a lot like me! Though I'm closer to 8 or 9 inked at a time. Lots of notes in meetings; I have a few stub nibs inked up that I use for headers, then rotate (less systematically) through the other pens throughout the day. The changing colors for each meeting help to provide a good visual separation between meetings in my notes. Plus, it's a nice little change of pace to "reset" between meetings by choosing a new pen.
I occasionally have to read & critique manuscripts for work and I find it much easier to do with a printed page. But the computer paper that we have in the office is not ideal for fountain pens - tons of bleeding and feathering.
Does anybody have experience with computer printer paper that is relatively FP friendly?
I thought I might keep a ream or two at my desk and swap out some sheets when I'm about to print something that I'll be writing on. (Something relatively budget friendly would be great too... Not planning on putting Tomoe River through the office printer!)
That 2023 line does not look ideal...
Source: The Economist
Each point represents a five day moving average. The x-axis is in terms of historical standard deviations, i.e each day is compared to the standard deviation of historical values for that year. So we are at -6 SD from the historical average for this point in time.
Other excellent visualizations are in the article!
Love these little quirky things when walking around neighborhoods in Seattle. Also Reservation Dogs is excellent.
> Peter Kingston blasted into the history books with a shot off a set piece near the touchline to give Ballard a 2-1 victory against Virginia’s Lionsbridge FC on a rainy Saturday night. Ballard, which is in its second season, topped a fourth-division men’s league that has 122 teams for its first championship.
Video of game winning goal in stoppage time (cross post from !ballard_fc@lemmy.world)
Blue Angels: patriotic celebration of America that's fun for the whole family, or noise-polluting, climate-change-worsening, outdated abomination of the petro-military-industrial complex?
Inspired by seeing Lee Pace in the Pushing Daisies post.
I feel like this show got overlooked amongst many of AMC's big hits around this time - Walking Dead, Mad Men, Breaking Bad. But Halt and Catch Fire deserves to be right up there with the best of them.
The storytelling is rich and compelling, the writing is great, the characters are nuanced and dynamic, and the actors are phenomenal. The show manages to capture different eras for the same characters flawlessly with each season - the sense of time and place is so well developed, and there is strong conceptual continuity throughout the show despite each season having a very different arc, look, and sometimes tone. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out!
I was riding with a Wing Sung 3009 today (a pretty nice, super cheap piston filler BTW) when I noticed this gunk on the inside of the cap. I'm pretty sure that I filled the pen up with Noodler's Air Corps Blue/Black a few months ago and then let the pen sit. It wrote pretty much right away.
But I noticed this brownish / tan / black residue on the inside of a cap, at the very bottom. I'm not sure if it was there before and I just didn't notice, or if it is new. It almost looks like burned plastic? Or maybe it's mold? But it seems like a weird place for mold to develop since there's no ink there. Has anybody seen anything like this before? I'm probably going to throw the pen away anyway (it's about $3.50) but was curious 🧐.
New pen came today: a Jinhao 82. This is Jinhao's "homage" to the Sailor Pro Gear Slim, released late 2022 I think. I got a medium nib, transparent blue body. Takes a #5 nib, available in EF, F, and M.
Overall the pen seems great. Inked it up with Waterman Mysterious Blue and it writes like a treat. Very smooth nib (I don't have a PGS but they have a reputation for having a good amount of feedback; there is none of that with this nib).
The slight translucency and rich dark blue body combine nicely with the gold trim to make this a really attractive pen. I like slightly smaller pens, and got this one to see if I might like the size of a PGS at some point - this is a great fit for me.
Converter included. There's also an O ring - wondering if this might be amenable to eyedroppering?
For $9 this pen is a terrific deal, and it comes in a ton of different color options. This is definitely going to be in my heavy rotation!
To start, I think that having all matches available on AppleTV is great from a fan perspective, especially for those of us who get it with our season ticket packages. (I'm less convinced about the tradeoffs for casual fans).
But as a non-Apple- device-owner, my experience on Android has been pretty poor. The app works OK on my Chromecast, but without a dedicated app the browser experience on a phone is really bad. Constantly stopping, freezing, etc. It won't work at all on firefox, and barely works on chrome. Has anyone gotten it to work more reliably?
Also, we have multiple households included in our season ticket group. But there is no way to enable family sharing of the subscription without someone having an Apple device. Anyone figured out a workaround?
From Propublica: the Repatriation Project
> In 1990, Congress passed a law recognizing the unequal treatment of Native American remains and set up a process for tribes to request their return from museums and other institutions that had them. The law, known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act or NAGPRA, sought to address this human rights issue by giving Indigenous peoples a way to reclaim their dead.
> But 33 years after the law’s passage, about half of the remains of more than 210,000 Native Americans have yet to be returned. Tribes have struggled to reclaim them in part because of a lack of federal funding for repatriation and because institutions face little to no consequences for violating the law or dragging their feet.
> This database allows you to search for information on the roughly 600 federally funded institutions that reported having such remains to the Department of the Interior. While the data is self-reported, it is a starting point for understanding the damage done by generations of Americans who stole, collected and displayed the remains and possessions of the continent’s Indigenous peoples — and the work done by tribes and institutions to repatriate those Native ancestors since.
https://www.seafoodfest.org/
> Ballard Seafoodfest is an annual festival held in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The festival's origins can be traced back to 1971 when leaders from Ballard's industrial and fishing community joined forces with the Ballard Elks to start SeafoodFest to promote the neighborhood's fishing industry and draw attention to the area's Scandinavian heritage.
> Today, the festival features a diverse range of seafood dishes from local restaurants and vendors, as well as live music performances, art exhibits, craft vendors, and family-friendly activities.
When Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his pancake empire to upstate New York, he didn’t expect to find a grave site — or start a war.
The flapjack boss of the Bronx faces off against a coalition of archeologists and revolutionary war buffs over a patch of land in upstate New York.
> Domenic Broccoli, the IHOP kingpin of the Bronx, lives a good life. He drives a nice car, spends time with his six grandkids, and golfs often enough to have a tan for most of the year. He owns a four-bedroom home in Pelham Manor, a house upstate, and IHOPs throughout the borough where he grew up, each of which runs smoothly enough to give Broccoli the time and resources to devote himself, at the age of 66, to the animating force in his life: destroying his enemies. This mission came as a surprise to Broccoli, who had little reason to expect that trying to expand his pancake empire into upstate New York — and to build his grandest IHOP yet — would lead to such conflict. But sometimes that’s what happens when you find a dead body.
I tend to gravitate to cheaper pens including a lot of Chinese-manufactured versions of more famous pens (clones / knockoffs), and thought it might be interesting to post some of them?
This one is one of my favorites: the Wing Sung 601. This pen comes in a variety of different plastic-body colors, which are also great - I have a burgundy version of this pen which works beautifully. The style and hooded nib are clearly an "homage" (read:clone) to the Parker 51. The history between Parker and Wing Sung is interesting and complex, and has been described in detail elsewhere with respect to Hero (which owns Wing Sung.
There is a great review of this pen at The Gentleman Stationer. The version that I have is a "Flighter" all steel body (around $25 on eBay, a bit more expensive than the plastic body version but not by too much).
The pen's big highlight is the vacumatic filling system, which works beautifully. The body of the pen acts as the reservoir allowing it to hold a ton of ink for a pen this small. I find that the pen writes very well and is tremendously reliable - never a hard start, and the construction of the pen and hooded nib have meant that there are no problems whatsoever with drying out. I've picked this pen up after a few months of no use and it writes immediately. The steel body adds a little heft, which I like, and the pen is extremely durable. The hooded nib also makes for a good "stealth FP" experience, if you're in a setting where you don't want to draw too much attention to the pen.
All in all, it's a great pickup for not a huge amount of cash, and has found it's way into heavy rotation for me.
Inspired by this Hunter S Thompson classic posted by @Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works, what articles do you consider to be "Longreads Classics"?
A few of my favorites:
- Gay Talese, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold", Esquire (1966). The article that has spawned a whole host of long reads about the article, as well as an episode of This American Life
- David Foster Wallace, "Consider the Lobster", Gourmet (1994) and "Roger Federer as Religious Experience", New York Times (2006)
- Ron Rosenbaum, "Secrets of the Little Blue Box", Esquire (1971)
- John Krakauer, "Death of an Innocent", Outside (1993), and "Into Thin Air", Outside (1996)
- Sheri Fink, "The Deadly Choices at Memorial", Propublica (2009)
Just a small sample to get a conversation started. What are your all-time classics / faves?
Also, Kevin Kelly's list is great! https://kk.org/cooltools/best-magazine-articles-ever/
Hi all, I picked up a Parker 45 at an antiques store last year and wondering if anybody has ideas about the era / any other distinguishing features.
I am guessing it's pre-1970s because it has the inverted conical clip screw: image. It's unclear to me, though, if they made these sorts of steel cap / gold clip / plastic body hybrids (e.g. as a variant of the 45 Classic), or if I bought a franken45 with a flighter cap.
In any case, I don't really care because the pen works great! Medium nib, smooth as butter, and I like how it looks. But this is my first vintage pen foray and I'd be interested to know more about it's history!
More images here if helpful (edit:figured out how to get them to display in line!)
With the end of Reddit third party apps, I'm looking for ways to fill the r/fountainpens void. (And this community is a great start!)
I use Feedly as an aggregator and am looking for some fountain pen blogs to follow. So far, I've got:
Other recommendations? Thanks!