If you buy me a box of these, I will write you ten letters (one for each pencil).
Please click on the image to visit an online store which has only 8 (wonderful) products.
Today, instead of editing a short piece about pencils and their optimal dullness (and another about lunchtime OCD), I decided to update and sort of redesign this here blog thing here. Productive, no? I have updated the blog’s theme; this one now supports widgets! I have also made it so that now, instead of one header image, there are 21. You will receive a different image every time you visit (until, ostensibly, you’ve visited 22 times). Also, if you visit this site on a mobile device, you will see a site optimized for mobile devices! My goodness! Any and all feedback will be greatly appreciated!
Maybe, at some point, I will also update and redesign the content I put here.
To keep you from hitting the refresh button 21 times (because I know you’re itching to do so?), here are scaled down versions of all the possible header images.
Since my oddly illustrated post about insects and pencils, my friend Kristy and I have been talking (well, digitally; mostly via the Facebook) about pencil obsession, which is something other people (not me, not Kristy) have. I initially pointed her to Mark Frauenfelder’s review of the new, pre-production Palomino Blackwing on boingboing, as well as some other pencil-obsessed sites. Earlier today, Kristy pointed me here, FTW:
PENCIL TIP SCULPTURE BY AN ARTIST NAMED DALTON GHETTI!!!
This is already several days old, which on the internet is months or something. However, I highly recommend reading it out loud to someone who would appreciate it. Then, go out and buy the first four seasons of Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job! on DVD.
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There is currently a small insect on its back, wriggling helplessly on my desk.
I have given it something to grab onto, and it is now right-side up.
For some reason or another, I have started using wood pencils again.
I had been using Pentel “Quicker Clicker” mechanical pencils for more than 10 years.
Mechanical pencils never quite attain an “optimal dullness.”
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J and I spent the last two weeks on Maui. We went for Jen’s cousin’s wedding (which was a lovely affair), and also for our honeymoon. We had a fantastic time! We rented a cottage in the jungle on the north shore, used that as our base of operations, and explored the island from there. Here is a sampling of pictures from our trip. Each picture is also a link to a slide show of all the photos we put up on Flickr (about 1/3 of the total pictures taken).
We saw a rainbow every day (this was by far the best one):
We watched John & Becky get married:
We hiked two miles to a 400 ft. waterfall:
We went to a gray sand beach:
We fell in love (with the island and with each other all over again):
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