Buck Rogers, Logan’s Run, Space: 1999, the Bionic Man, Astroboy, the Pilot Myu. There is a person this pen calls to, the person who has dreamt at least once of walking the moon in a reflectorized spacesuit, who greets internet-enabled refrigerators with glee. This is the quill Dr. Who could have dashed off notes to …
This is the first movie I almost finished on my Nokia N82. I took the video while in a taxi driven by a man with heavy feet and sensitive brakes. I replaced the soundtrack with an mp3 I used to use as a ringtone. Serendipitously, the video locked with the audio. I also added the …
Who knew it mattered for pens? We like it in our tech, version 2.0 absolving the sins of 0.9, bringing the past into the future with fonts smoothened and engines rewritten. Platinum has a line of inexpensive fountain pens branded “Preppy.” They have steel nibs and see-through plastic bodies. Preppy ink cartridges come in violet, …
I hope it’s not too much trouble to ask, but do download the Quicktime plugin for your browser? I’ve just activated Quicktime streaming on my site, and I’d like to hear what you think of this versus the standard YouTube embed. So begins my experiment in vlogging.
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 …
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 …