Author: steve
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Don’t Lose Your Pen! High visibility Pen Comparison
There was a time when I was younger when I, like a lot of folks it seems, preferred black or manly or ‘tactical’ colors for everything. Then I slowly learned I was spending a lot of time looking for things because they were all the same color. Especially when traveling or camping. Over time I’ve…
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A trick to reduce handwriting stress
One of the advantages of fountain pens is that they require very little pressure to write. This encourages a looser grip, which in turn means less stress and tiring. It usually works that way. But when I’m in a hurry, under stress to write both fast and neat, or have simply enjoyed too much coffee,…
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Fixing A Broken Moleskine Band
A very popular post on the OG RecordingThoughts.com was on how to fix a broken Moleskine band. Someone even left a comment on the new blog asking about it. I replied I’d repost but when I went looking for the photos, I couldn’t find them. So, I made a video instead: https://youtu.be/Q2sFfAo03uA I hope it…
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Moving to Mastodon
Like a lot of folks I’m moving to Mastodon. It’s not to say you’ll never see me on Twitter again, but I’ll be putting my focus on Mastodon. [UPDATE FEB 2023] Well, maybe not. Mstdn.party, the instance where I’d made my account, was abandoned by its administrator and was beginning to be blocked. So I…
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Business notes – loose pages or notebook?
Yes, I know. You’re looking at me thinking I’m some kind of luddite. Here we are, sitting in a meeting and you’ve got your tablet out and I’ve got my pen and paper. Yes, I work with software, databases, and data visualization, and therefore I should be technologically adept. I am. I also enjoy reaping…
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Only girls keep diaries
When I was a boy I didn’t keep a journal because back then I didn’t know what a journal was, I knew what a diary was. Diaries were kept by girls, not boys in my mind. I thought about starting one and calling it a log book. Later I learned that another term was journal,…