When Word Processors Are Out: What's The Best Pen? 951
chensonny writes "Recently I was in a situation where there was no word processor, and several of us had to write, copy and sign a big amount of paper. It was then I re-realized the need for a good and comfortable pen. I saw some friends using a Mont Blanc, others like me using a felt pen or cheap ball-point pen. What does the geeks of Slashdot use for writing?" My favorite pen is an aluminum Lamy fountain pen -- can anyone recommend a good place to order Lamy ink in the U.S.?
Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
Pencil = Good (Score:5, Funny)
-- Use it to label disks, and play the fun game of getting conductive pencil shavings in your disk drive
-- Graphite + Wall Socket = Fun
-- Get to shake it when your one stick of lead finishes so the next one will catch, until you open it up to insert the lead in backwards (through the tip) because its not catching, and then when you open it the lead falls out and snaps
-- Injecting graphite into people
Re:Go to an art supply store (Score:3, Funny)
Ooh! now I can take pictures of four-dimensional objects and they will be projected properly!
Pen Geek Check (Score:3, Funny)
* You are in the bank depositing a bunch of checks from Indonesian gardeners, and you find yourself inexplicably without a pen. There is a little ballpoint pen on a steel chain at a table inside the bank. You would:
1. Leave and return the next day;
2. Run to the nearest Wal-Mart and buy a Montblanc;
3. Use the ball pen, but sign someone else's name on the checks;
4. Not know what the ballpoint pen is.
* Have you ever been in an argument over the actual derivation of the trade name "Duofold"?
* When watching old movies on video, do you find yourself freeze-framing to try to get a closer look at the pen Humphrey Bogart is using? Do you in fact know what pen Humphrey Bogart was using? Would you be willing to tell me?
* Do you own any of the following items:
1. A pocket protector (and you're not an engineer)?
2. A glass eyedropper?
3. More than one bottle of household ammonia?
4. Blotter paper
* Do you keep a bottle of ink in your carry-on luggage? More than one bottle in different colors?
* Do you find yourself sniffing at the end of pens (to tell whether or not they are made of hard rubber)?
* Are your pens cleaner than your kitchen?
* Can you identify the pens shown on the boxes of various word processing software packages? Do you feel resentful when you don't find any of those pens inside the boxes?
Pen Geek Check [rickconner.net]
Re:I-Mark pens are nice... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Think Geek to the Rescue! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Big Fat Mont Blanc (Score:1, Funny)
Yellow one that writes in the snow (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Your attitude towards writing and education and the modern nonchalant political correct mantra that "pens are unnecessary because we do have computers" strikes me as elitistic.
There are *millions* of people that would have given their left arm just for the ability to write with a pen so they can get a decent job. Please think about those children that never will earn the privilege it is to be able to take an education.
So before you throw away that cheap and "useless" Bic-pen think about what a kid in Africa could have achieved with that pen.
When I was a kid we had to write with old-school ink and we were grateful. So should you.
The pen is not a device but an opportunity to master the skill our society needs.
Best method... (Score:2, Funny)
Blood. No one breaks those contracts.
Love,
Satan
Re:Pencil = Good (Score:4, Funny)
In 4th grade, me and this other kid were poking at each other with pencils. I had a big, long thing of lead sticking out the front of mine and accidentally stuck him in the palm. It broke off and left about a 1/2 inch of lead under the skin.
It looked really gross. He was pretty upset by the situation, but said it didn't hurt.
Thought I'd share.
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
Pens (Score:1, Funny)
"When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300C.
When confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil."
Re:Pilot Precise V5 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My favorite pen is one I can liberate from (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Big Fat Mont Blanc (Score:4, Funny)
Re:notes from an artist (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Think Geek to the Rescue! (Score:3, Funny)
Bic Stic Medium (Score:3, Funny)
I've had (and lost) $50.00 pens. The Bic seems to work just as well. And, when they don't, you can snap them in half and throw them away. Great stress relief.
Timmy, if only... (Score:4, Funny)
Gee, if only there was some kind of searchable, massive collection of computers that were all hooked together somehow, and contained this kind of information. If businesses were a part of it, it would be even better.