The most artful present I received this Christmas came from Sunshine, producer and potter extraordinaire. Around November, I asked him if he could create a pen rest for me; I described, with much hand flailing, how I thought it would look. Imagine my surprise at being presented with three pen rests as a Christmas gift! …
This was a Green Board find, and it arrived in the mail just before the system shut down for the holidays. The previous owner took care of the pen, and the clip and trim have acquired a mellow, patinated character. The Iris was Stipula’s first foray into retractable nibs. Its body is gently curvaceous, and …
Without reading the manual, I decided to set up the wireless router today. I plugged it in, turned on the Mac and configured away. It worked. I was happy. I turned on the Asus Eee. The connection worked, too. I figured that was that. Later in the afternoon, I brought the Asus Eee into the …
I told my sister last night, “Oh no, clutter ate our Christmas.” She told me to be patient. I sighed. Our house is a pastopolis, three floors of hereditary packrattiness. On Christmas Eve there were at least twenty different sets of plates unpacked and waiting to be washed before being put away again. Floral, geometric, …
I’d give it an A for looks an a C+ for paper performance. I bought several Moleskine reporter notebooks in Fully Booked, the unruled version. The format interested me: compact, with the binding on top instead of on the left side. Ever since Chiqui introduced me to Moleskines, I’ve always had at least one on …
No, I haven’t customized its desktop, gone into advanced mode or installed additional programs, but the Asus Eee doesn’t mind at all. I tucked it into my big brown tote together with the Huawei E220 modem from Globe Visibility (which it recognized without pain yesterday), a generic wireless mouse, the external hard drive and its …
The Tibaldi Iride arrived a month ago in a plain, ink-stained Pilot box. I’d asked the seller to not send it in its de rigeur crystal coffin, to avoid damage in transit. Besides, the box is never as important as the pen it holds. I liked the Tibaldi Iride for its celluloid. Celluloid is a …
there were four women who ruled the tiny world I called work. When I first met Matec, she had a perm and a voice that carried across the conference room. She was brash, but she was also very kind. Once she sank her teeth into a project, she would not let go until we were …
One of the Asus Eee’s clincher factors is its price. At approximately P19000 SRP, it’s cheaper than high-end phones – and you don’t need to squint too hard at the screen. I am really liking the screen; it’s just enough to be useful. Horizontal scrolling doesn’t bother me too much, but it might frustrate other …