Goodbye Spock Plus A Few Sunday Links

Such a week, but there were some bright spots…

• Jet Pens: Guide to Choosing a Brush Pen for Calligraphy
• Scrawled Insults and Epiphanies
• Imgur: 10 Great Tricks to Appear Smarter in Meetings (Heh.)
• Are you getting enough Vitamin D? and Which supplements do you really need?
• Rants of the Archer: Edison Collier Antique Marble Fountain Pen
• Pen Chalet Giveaway
• Massdrop has some good deals on pens, ink and other stuff
• Painting Cherry Blossoms – Class Demonstration by Nan Rae

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— Terry W. Virts (@AstroTerry) February 28, 2015

Sunday Links From Kaweco To Passwords To Deadly Foods

This week’s collection is a real mishmash…

• Ed Jelley: Kaweco 14k Gold Nib Review
• 10 deadly foods you probably have in your kitchen
• Kim Komando: 3 places better than Craigslist to buy and sell used items
• These are the 25 best passwords you can use… if you want to be hacked
• No Pen Intended: Ink Drop Soup: Yoropen, Back Again!
• Etsy: The Bouncy Pigeon (very pretty items crafted by a friend of my daughter)
• If you like orange ink, these swatches will make you happy
• Hovering happy face smiles down on us from space

This is an inherited piece. We’ve come up with several stories for the composition though none quite suits it exactly. What do you think it’s about?

Kites, Bullets and Pens? Oh, my!

It’s National Kite Flying Day so go fly a kite. Not your cuppa? Maybe one of these links will take you to something more to your liking…

• CzipLee: Malaysian Back to School Kits Flood Relief Drive
• Nibs.com: Platinum #3776 Century Nice Pur LE (sale price includes optimization “for your personal writing characteristics”)
• Bullet Journal – analog note-taking system
• Ed Jelley: Sailor Jentle Four Seasons Miruai – Seaweed Indigo Review
• Monologue site is open for business. My review from 2014.
• EastWestEverywhere: Kickstarter: CursiveLogic
• 6 Ways to Be Your Own Health Advocate
• Edison Pen Company gets covered

Starting The Week With Pen And Paper Links

This was a pen and paper week both online and at my desk…

• Fueled by Clouds & Coffee: Epic Pen Search and Discovery
• From The Pen Cup: Shawn Newton’s Pen Scholarship Fund
• Hobonichi Planner Usage Examples
• Noodler’s Ink Properties
• Ubiquitous Pen: Sailor Yama-Dori
• The new Esterbrook pens are a hot topic at FPN

Modern Flex Nibs in Gold

From left to right, Platinum #3776 Century Fine Flex (FF), Pilot Custom 742 Falcon (FA), and a Namiki Falcon Soft Fine (SF).

Mostly Pen And Ink Links Plus How To Get Planted

Yep, how to get planted…

• Noodler’s Manhattan Blue (formerly an Art Brown exclusive) is available at FPH.
• Fountain Pen Scribbles: The Vacumania Pen Newsletter
• The Fountain Pen Inks Infographic
• Bios Urn (Well, that’s one way to give back.)
• Esterbrook J Series (An Estie in name only.)
• Junior’s Bullet Pens
• OfficeSupplyGeek.com: A Quick Tip on Getting Office Supplies at the Best Price

Sunday Reads And Other Treats

Another eclectic mix…

• Antibiotics: US discovery labelled ‘game-changer’ for medicine
• Google lists 127 of the best Android apps in the world
• Hummingbird Whisperer
• Pens Are Actually Fascinating
• Green Bay’s Board-Game Obsession
• Kim Komando: 5 things Facebook asks for that are none of its business
• Watch Anthony Bourdain Extol the Virtues of In-N-Out Burger
• Dwight McCarter: The Tracker
• Should we keep teaching cursive in school?
• Michael R’s new site on pens and inks
• Black lab in Seattle likes to hop on bus, take solo ride
• Adorable corgi dog meets his favorite Disney characters
• Platinum 3776 Bourgogne Review
• The Mary Sue: David Tennant Narrates
• Organics Studio Ink Rerelease

A little color to brighten the day

 

 

Doodles, A Playful Puppy And Pepe Le Pew

Sometimes you just have to go with the flow…

• Marriott has used Wi-Fi jammers to block personal hotspots
• How to Doodle 40 Day Course
• Uncanny Moments on the Streets of China
• New Israeli Cancer Vaccine Triggers Response In 90% Of Cancer Types
• Italian Cream Soda (art – not food)
• Behind the Voice Actors
• Michio Kaku Quotes

Happy, happy, joy, joy.