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Agreed, I did a month long cultural homestay in northern Japan and got to deal with a bunch of mundane bits like laundry, grocery shopping, and trash day.

I've told folks half joking and half not that if they really want to level up their English, they should learn French. Once you know what to look for, you notice all the English wo…

I spent a lot of time in undergrad researching to find the books cheap online or buy the Indian paperback version that is only hardcover in the US. The oncampus bookstore gave pean…

Chip + Signature depends on the venue which makes it really annoying. Went to a new city, one place out of the four I visited required a signature, the rest were fine with tap to p…

I mostly use Blender recently but I've used KDenLive, Openshot, and Shotcut alot as well. GDQuest has some good tutorials on video editing in Blender.

I double dip too. My county and city both have Overdrive/Libby.

I'm pretty similar except for the digital portion software. My final work notes live as an org-roam database because it has really rich linking, export and embed options. Day to da…

I started using a bullet journal some years back and quickly dropped all the rules and artistic spreads for regular notebooks and most recently a pre-printed planner from Japan. Ju…

I was an originalist on Emacs and totally agree. I tried Spacemacs and then doom and got to throw away 80% of the customizations I'd acquired over the years. The only thing that pu…

Totally agree. Before starting with a paper journal about 4 years ago, I was using todo.txt for tasks with some org-mode to supplement. I stuck with it for a good while (2012-2016)…

I've always liked to write things. I got into FPs a couple years ago because it's less pressure and the color selection. Re: obsession/cost, it is what you make it. I know folks wh…

Many Noodler's inks are waterproof and have served me well even for legal docs. I've even found a bunch of other inks that aren't advertised as waterproof/resistant that ended up t…

My one gripe with the Metro and it's cousin the Kakuno is that ink seems to evaporate in them much faster than other pens. I know it's my fault for having too many inked but still.…

Esperanto is doable without an IME. Some of the media I learned from used the x-system, appending an x where a diacritic mark was needed so ĉ becomes cx. The only problem with that…

I was designated navigator on road trips with my dad from like 8 or 10. As a adult, I was surprised to see friends using GPS every time to get to their "favorite restaurant" (locat…

It's not that the Mickey Mouse shirt isn't, it's just that companies don't go after it (at least on the small scale in public spaces). Both are fair use. I think it might be lobby …

I'm also a fountain pen user. I never liked pure cursive and do a mix, it's more of a print-sive where some letters are always print (F, J, G, Q, a couple others) and others are cu…

I think that's both duolingo and more her effort to find ways to apply the language to her interests. I didn't have literature in my language classes and generally wasn't taught ab…

Likely not. There are so many modern Parker 51 inspired pens already. The vintage P51s are priced all over the place from $60-7500 depending on the features of that pen....$7500 wa…

My favorite P51 homage is the Jinhao 51A. I love all the colors/finishes they come in and have demonstrator versions, hooded and unhooded. They are like $2-5 a pop. https://www.eba…

The answer is yes. If they have the text of their video, they can upload it and Youtube will try to match it to the underlying speech. Youtube can do some automated transcription b…

I have a simple zippered pouch that I carry my pens in. It's been on at least 2 dozen individual flights including some to/from Europe. I've never had a problem with TSA in the US.…

If I don't like how a FP feels, I can possibly change the nib or trade it/give it away. My first thought isn't like a ballpoint where I'd trash it. I don't get as OCD but I know of…

JetPens has good guides: From this list, I can personally vouch for the Platinum Preppy and Pilot Metropolitan. Though the Preppy is a disposable, the catridges from the non-dispos…