I love red rubber. Mottled, woodgrain, ripple, it makes me think of bikers in flames. It’s a classic material in pens, like vinyl in bondage wear. The earliest hard rubber pens came in any color you wanted, as long as it was black. Then manufacturers brought on the bling – repoussé bands, filigree overlays, full …
Month: September 2008
My intense flirtation with iMovie 08 continues, even if I had to restart the application thrice during editing. I had not realized the mpeg-1 format my Sony Cybershot N50 uses was incompatible with iMovie. Thank the galactic overlords for Visual Hub. It was a simple drag-and-drop from iPhoto (which selfishly imported both jpegs and mpegs …
I have too many pictures of fountain pens. Thanks to iMovie 7.1.4 and the Ken Burns effect, several of them are now the fountain pen equivalent of a mediocre wedding video.
In the last gasps of the final showdown between fountain pens and ballpoints, Pilot introduced the Pilot Justus. Today, the Justus model commands eyebrow-raising prices on eBay. When it was launched, it tanked. It’s not hard to see why. When mobile phones became as accessible as pagers, pager manufacturers introduced transparent pagers, pagers with flashing …
I’ve died and gone to heaven. Disclaimer: I’m not a gamer.
This is a soggy day, the kind of day that upsets women who have just hung out the laundry and still have to pick up the kids from school. The sun is only a sigh in the sky. I could not peel my body off the bed this morning. My sister attempted to wake me …
Other women reminisce about first dates. I get the same dreamy smile when I think of my first Nakaya. I was in Singapore for a creative workshop. I stole time to pass by Aesthetic Bay. The Piccolo Shu Chinkoku refused to let me leave without it. The housoge design, black on red, is to the …
Imagine me, a woman of thirty, trying to grab a rooster by the tail in my grandaunt’s backyard. I didn’t succeed, but my huffing and flailing amused my family. After a good time was had by all, my uncle handed me a tailfeather he picked up. Here, he said, I don’t know what you want …
You might notice new categories on the left. They’re not really new. They’re from my old blog, which I created using iBlog. I’m finally making good on my three month-old promise to transfer those entries to this blog. This process is like me saying, “Come in,” to carpal tunnel syndrome and making it some tea. …
I ask too much, I know. I want this headset to seamlessly switch between the Mac and the N82. That requires an operating system, not a sensor. A kink that had me shaking my head this morning: the Mac couldn’t find the BH-503. I turned the headset off and on, made sure it was charged, …