Sunday, June 23, 2024

Fountain Pen Esoterica: Regular Ink, Sheening Ink, Shimmering Ink, Oh My!

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Unless you're in the fountain pen community, you would not know there are certain... "fancy fountain pen ink" and new ones dev...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Stationery Pal: Chinese Stationery for Less, Until You See the Shipping Costs

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Stationery Pal is a stationery store based in New Territories, which is next to Hong Kong, but not quite in China yet (that's Shenzhen)....
Friday, June 21, 2024

I Have Been Guilty of Spreading Wrong Info... Here is the True Legacy of Abraham Wald

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Ever heard of the story that mathematician Abraham Wald and the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University was asked by USAAF in WW2 ...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Conflict in Storytelling -- The Three Pillars: Plot, Setting, Character

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NOTE: The following is a personal interpretation of a lecture given by Brandon Sanderson, which is available on Youtube .  A story well told...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Fountain Pen Esoterica: Used Vintage Pen Update

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Back on June 8th, I mentioned that I had placed an order for a used Sheaffer fountain pen on Mercari.  It never came. I was forced to cancel...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

PC Macroboard Update: I Bought One! Epomaker EK21 VIA

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Sometimes, somethings are just too good of a bargain you can't pass it up. And when I saw a macroboard available for sale, it took me se...
Monday, June 17, 2024

App Discovery: Ninite -- Install or Update MANY Programs at Once

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Ninite, available at Ninite.com , is a tremendous timesaver for people who need to keep PCs up to date or standardized on certain number of ...