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"Not putting miles on your Ferrari is like not having sex with your girlfriend so she'll be more desirable to her next boyfriend." -Jim Glickenhaus
The flaw in this delightful analogy is that boyfriends don't typically sell their girlfriends to each other.
Prefer to buy slightly damaged or store demo musical instruments for the same reason.
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My 2012 macbook pro looks like its been throw out of a moving vehicle at this point. Dinged corners, scratched up bottoms and missing screws and feet. Thats why they make them out of a metal unibody chassis after all, to keep up with being dropped all the time and scratched up.
Doesn't stop the battery from expanding and ruining the keyboard, trackpad, bottom and top case. RIP 2015 MBP - you still had a few years left in ya.
I'm on battery number 2 at this point, and the swap takes as long as a dozen phillips heads takes to unscrew then screw. I don't envy the more recent glued battery models and don't look forward to the day when this pretty repairable rig finally bites the dust and I'm forced into one.
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The flaw in this delightful analogy is that boyfriends don't typically sell their girlfriends to each other.
And that women don't get "used up" because they have sex! Truly delightfully disgusting, that analogy. You'd probably need to own a Ferrari to come up with such nonsense.
But having said that... I do love expensive notebooks - at this moment I'm going through moleskine hard cover pocket with dotted pages.
Add decent or even luxury automatic pencil and this elevates it to the whole new level (rotring 800 with retractable end has the ideal length to attache it to moleskine pocket sized notebook with pen loop, this way you can always carry them both and this model of rotring is quite nice to use as writing tool)
I have tried both cheap and quite expensive ones (both pencils and notebooks) and I have found that the quality of my notes goes up with the price and quality. Especially with notebooks its like I subconsciously pay lot more attention to details and general legibility when I know I do not want to spoil this work of art product with my scribbles.
A nice notebook should be filled with nice notes and sketches.
But at the same time it’s a waste to keep nice notes and sketches in a bad notebook.
I’ve settled on Mujis notebooks. I like the A5/b5 format in size and portability. The paper is good enough to keep nice notes on it, but it is cheap enough for just scribbles that go nowhere.
When studying I usually always have a shitty pad near me, where I write down intermediate calculations or other things that are useless the minute after they have been written.
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This doesn't work like that in fountain pen users' universe. The good notebooks change the behavior of the pen and the ink a lot, and you want to write things you want to save on these notebooks. When written, and finished, a notebook written with your favorite inks and fountain pens become an art piece for yourself, and you want to write something you want to return to. If it was about money, I'd be using a nice rol…
Maybe in your universe, not in mine. I use nice notebooks and nice fountain pens for the most banal shit. I can afford to go through a few $30 journals per year even if they're filled up with nothing but my daily to-do lists. Whatever works though.
However, my hand-bound leather notebooks are reserved for design and journal work only, and written with archival inks most of the time.
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This doesn't work like that in fountain pen users' universe. The good notebooks change the behavior of the pen and the ink a lot, and you want to write things you want to save on these notebooks. When written, and finished, a notebook written with your favorite inks and fountain pens become an art piece for yourself, and you want to write something you want to return to. If it was about money, I'd be using a nice rol…
My father actually collects fountain pen, he got published many times in fountain pen related magazines and he is no doubt in the top 100 collectors in the world, and top 1-5 for specific brands. He never has expressed anything about the quality of paper. Actually, he takes his notes on whatever is available, which often means the back of an envelope lying around and otherwise printer paper. I have never seen him use…
He probably has a favorite ink to use with his fountain pens, since inks change both a pen's behavior and their interaction changes from paper to paper.
There's a list of popular, run of the mill inks which work very well with lower quality paper. I also use these inks with my daily driver pens and notebooks, since they're easy to maintain, looks nice, and works with almost any notebook out there.
However I had some notebooks which were not writable unless you use a gel, ballpoint or some rollerballs. Fountain pen ink just stayed as little droplets and never dried on them.
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This doesn't work like that in fountain pen users' universe. The good notebooks change the behavior of the pen and the ink a lot, and you want to write things you want to save on these notebooks. When written, and finished, a notebook written with your favorite inks and fountain pens become an art piece for yourself, and you want to write something you want to return to. If it was about money, I'd be using a nice rol…
My father actually collects fountain pen, he got published many times in fountain pen related magazines and he is no doubt in the top 100 collectors in the world, and top 1-5 for specific brands. He never has expressed anything about the quality of paper. Actually, he takes his notes on whatever is available, which often means the back of an envelope lying around and otherwise printer paper. I have never seen him use…
It took me a while to get over the fear of destroying/using up nice things. Like enjoying a nice bottle of liquor, or using up a very nice notebook. Eventually I came across the idea that things are meant to be used, and now I'm much more relaxed about damaging/using up the things I own. I read once a stellar idea to help get over the fear of starting to draw in a notebook (or an art project, or a new software projec…
Do you know how their paper is with pencil? I've found that a lot of the nicer notebook brands work really well with pen, but the paper doesn't have enough tooth for pencil to write very well.