so i was tagged in something and remembered that i have a blog. I will do an actual post tomorrow, but until then…
it’s an aggressively geeky tag, but alas… my preferences of writing utensils (i know y’all were sitting on the edge of your seat about this stuff)…
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Low Range – Under 10 dollars
Favorite Gel Pen: Super Fine Tipped – Uni Signo Bit .28… Sort of fine tipped – Yasutomo Gel Stylist .5 (i know people are all the rage about sliccis or pilot hi-tec-cs but it feels like i am going to break them in half).
Favorite Rollerball: Pilot P-500 ( a gel roller ball so debatable in this category and an ugly pen but I really like how it writes) or the Uni Vision Elite Micro.
Favorite Ballpoint: Uniball Jetstream .5 or Zebra F-402
Favorite Felt Tip Pen: Yeah, this is too hard.
Felt Tipped Art Pen: For black the Copic SP – for color Sakura Pigma Micron (though for cheap messing around the Steadler Fineliners are fun and as for black in every day use, I choose the Mitsubishi PiN Watertype and Pilot Drawing Pen over the Sakura Black for what it’s worth).
Felt Tipped Writing Pen: Pilot Razor II (I really do think it’s finer than the Razor)
Fountain Pen s: Itoya Blade (also an unpopular answer, but I vastly prefer it to the Pilot Varsity)
Favorite Highlighter: An epic fail for me…
Gel based: Yasutomo Hi-Glide
Wood based: Levenger Dry Liner, Faber Castell, or Stabilo Boss Drylighters
Brush Highlighter: I like using the Tombow light colored dual tipped art brushes
Regular highlighter: Yellow-Orange (Tombow), Pastels generally (Zebra Midliners), Orange, Purple and Pink (Pilot Spotlighter), Blue and Green (Uniball Propus Window), Yellow (Pilot Frixion Light). When I need it to be super bright and I don’t care if it bleeds then a Sharpie Liquid Accent Highlighter and when I do care if it bleeds but need it to be bright – Steadler Tri Textsurfers.
Favorite Mechanical Pencil – Uniball Kura Toga .3 or the Steadtler 924 .3 for drafting or the Zebra M-402 for a slightly wider lead.
Favorite Brush Pen: Zebra Extra Fine Tipped
Favorite Marker: Ultra Fine and Fine Tipped Sharpies (boring answer – but true. i have tried chartak, copic ciao, and prisma color – but even beyond cost, i would probably go this way)
Favorite Wood Pencil: Hi-Uni B2
Favorite Colored Pencil: I don’t use a lot of colored pencils, but I do like the Prismacolor Red Erasable one for editing.
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MidRange 10 – 50 dollars
Favorite Gel Pen: I don’t own one that is over 10 dollars, so I don’t know
Favorite Ball Point: Lamy Studio
Favorite Rollerball: Tie – Xonex Vintage 1955 or the Retro 51 Tornado
Favorite Fountain: Tie – Retro 51 or the AG Spalding (probably not a popular answer either… I have a Lamy Safari and Pilot Knight – just don’t like them as much).
Favorite Ink: No idea. Right now, I like J. Herbin Gray, Levenger Forest Green, Noodlers Air Corp Blue-Black and J. Herbin some sort of dark brown someone gave me. I am not really adventurous.
Favorite Pencil: Platinum Pro-Use .3 ( I have a Lamy Scribble but it’s just not fine tipped enough) or the Retro 51 Tornado for underlining.
Favorite Dry Highlighter: Xonex Mechanical Pencil (like the levenger true writer except completely made of metal and cheaper – I like it better).
Favorite Brush Pen: Don’t own one this expensive.
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Favorite Notebook
Pocket Sized: Paper/Cardboard covered: Field Notes, Spiral: Marumen Mnemysone Today’s Act, Hardbound: Lechterrum 1917
Mid Sized: Hardback: Lechterrum 1917 Dots or Graph (I own more Moleskines because of ease of purchase) Softcover: Moleskine Graph, Paper/Cardboard Cover: Moleskine Cahier. Spiral bound: Marumen Mnemysone inspiration or special note (the best notebooks hand down in any category in my opinion
Large Sized: Spiral Bound – Miquel Ruis, Legal Pad – Levenger, Staple Bound: Rhodia, Hard Bound: Don’t really like hardbound this big so I haven’t tried enough to know for sure.
Planner: Far and away the Quo Vadis Equology Scholar – and I am really indecisive and have gone through a lot.
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Yeah. I am cool enough both to run with people who post survey’s like this – and have the ability to answer it’s questions.
I need a better hobby.
but a suggestion for office supplies:
Yasutomo Hi-Glide Gel Highlighter
Quite possibly the most amazing thing ever.
“Finally, a highlighter that glides smoothly on even the thinnest paper with no soaking, no bleeding through, no wrinkles and no smearing! The Hi-glider gel stick highlighter is available in three translucent colors, yellow, orange and pink and twists up to extend the tip for easy highlighting.”
It’s basically a waxy gel stick that leaves a decent but not obnoxious highlighting. Works rad on books, bible, etc. Doesn’t seem to make pages stick together or smear at all either.
And unlike other yuppie office supplies it’s a $1.50.
If you order one, and are already paying the shipping, they have a noah’s ark oragami set on sale, absolutely fantastic markers for making t-shirts that are cheaper than any I have been able to find (I hate doing fabric paint), and a lot of legitimate pens for only a buck or two.
plus not many people know about them, so you’d kind of be a hipster.
literally, for the love of God, if you are going to write about inclusiveness and moderation and conversation, can you please not mock, rail on, and stereotype people who fall on your definition of conservative, liberal, evangelical, or catholic.
you just sound like a hypocritical jerk.
thanks.
the other night, i had a dream that seminary was all paid for and taken care of. it was awesome, though probably not a prophecy. i dreamt that my cat, ehud the slayer, had secretly had millions of dollars and decided to pay for it.
then, when i woke up, he was biting me and i jerked and launched him off the bed.
i flew out of bed, looked around and panicked for about 30 seconds because i needed to apologize.
yeah, i’m totally comfortable with things.
305 days.
it seems concerning to me, on several levels, that the church sees infinitely more adult confirmations and receptions than it does adult baptisms.
i am long overdue for a substantive update.
but alas, all things are either not updatable or are not even vaguely interesting to even me.
home from convention.
yesterday was a dark day.
but only because purdue lost.
the presiding bishop was at convention and that was a bit rad.
outside of that, the convention was, as some said, “blissfully uneventful.”
i have that same, well quite small hope, for the week and year to come.
i care infinitely more about the purdue/notre dame game than diocesan convention.
my blog has been private for awhile.
now i would imagine no one reads it.
which is convenient.
i am at diocesan convention. beyond that, i have nothing to update.
this relates to nothing substantive to the way of faith, the church, etc.
i was walking the thunderdog yesterday and making a vain attempt at completing my sermon in my head.
as we are about three blocks from my house, a small girl comes running up. my dog hates small girls that run up (as we all should). as the girl got, closer, however, she yelled “Oh Cute Pup—— AHHHHHHHHHHH!” Screamed. And ran away. For a moment, I thought, alas, a small child that learned they should not run up and get in the face of a strange dog.
Then, my very cute puppy looks up at me and wiggles…. with a bird leg hanging out of her mouth. I shout “No” (I have no idea why) and the thunderdog promptly drops a small little bird out of her mouth watches it twitch and then nips it a few times and growls. (As a good fan of Pat Robertson, she believes on kicking things when they are down.) Needless to say, this only further traumatized the little girl, who I am sure would proclaim if she new the phrase “oh the brutality.” Instead she screamed, “scary puppy!”
Parents, teach your kids better adjectives.
And to stay away from strange puppies.
I have no idea when she caught the bird or how long it was in her mouth.
pentecost. no, not the season we burn heretics even though there is the fire and people with diverse beliefs in the icon. unfortunate for some and fortunate for others.
