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I think I'm going to buy a set of Rotring Isographs for nostalgia, also the pencils and ballpoints look nice, engineer nice.

The back story is from the age of 10-11 we were made to use italic fountain pens for english - another triumph of style over substance - and any fountain pen thereafter.
At some point someone figured out that technical drawing pens met the spec, but even with a high level of skill it looked as if a spider had half-drowned in an ink-well then died while staggering around on your page.
Eventually they gave up and let everyone use ballpoint, although I think I persevered with the rotring a good few years longer, I hope they hated me.

Also I was briefly the cool kid because while everyone else had 0.35mm tips I had a 0.3 which wasn't available in the UK.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2020-05-14 01:25:22)

Bit of a fwp, but I had a small time art class at the last minute insist on particular equipment that was both expensive and hard to find. Had to drive all over the place picking up just the right kind of obscure brushes and paints. Some of the other students there had never so much as mixed two colors together. After that fiasco, instructor would brook no delay in projects either, for whatever reason outside someone's control.

I don't find the idea that a school would insist on a particular pen to be at all amazing.

i memorise things better written by hand. typing, nope.

i take notes by hand, write letters, draft things out, etc.

I'd rather smash my face on the floor

Blue ink can fuck right off.

My teachers would only protest if I embellished dots as tiny circles, put anything in between paragraphs other than a single spaced or double spaced line, or drew a slash through my zeros. No comments if I didn't lift my pen between letters, or haphazardly dotted my i's with tiny /'s. Almost became a game to see what permutations I could get away with.

I don't do any of that anymore, but it was interesting.

Blue or red

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

There's lots of articles extolling the benefits of handwritten notes. This PBS article from 2014 takes a balanced viewpoint.

Others recommend blue ink. 2020, example, sections 9, 10.

Anecdotally, most of my field notes are handwritten on a paper notebook. I've got one of those fat multicolor pens for when I need to distinguish lines and figures. Blue for important notes, though I'm not exactly certain to what extent, if any, it helps my retention.

Also I loathed seeing laptops at college. Who wants to listen to 15+ fellow students going tippity tappity on plastic keyboards unless you're in a specifically computer-related class.

You better hope your memory is good if all your notes are on paper, not being able to instantly search for something and having to carry around paper is crazy to me.

Maybe it does help memorize/retain short term information which is good for exams but in the real world that has never been helpful to me. If I make notes they are always immediately accessible to me (phone/laptop/whatever), which is kind of the point of having the note.

Each to their own though, if you enjoy writing with a pen that's cool.

Other things I hate: people at work who always insist on printing everything and storing them in massive filing cabinets that take up ridiculous amounts of space and take ages to search through when they need something. Not to mention the environmental aspect of it, soft copies are just better.

Mine is black bc black don't crack

Dauntless wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

I bought this

https://www.leatherman.com/wave-10.html … mp;start=1

I've got the same one!

Forgot I had it, just found it last night while clearing some junk out of a drawer

Are you two in the Boy Scouts?

Mine was a gift, it's barely been out of its box since I got it