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1 year agoThis was it! Thanks - makes much more sense now. Thanks!
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I find that they’re great for headings, titles, dates, etc - a little emphasis in my notes. With that said, my pilot metropolitan’s stub nib has also always been really scratchy too, and hard starts a lot. It’s always been one of my most disappointing pens.
One of my favorite stub nibs is a Jinhao 80 (Lamy 2000 clone, usually sub-$10). I swapped out the Jinhao nib for a Lamy 1.1 stub, and it writes like a dream!
Nice - I had misread this as Diamine Earl Grey at first, and was very confused (“I’ve used this before and don’t remember any orange tones!”). But it does look beautiful!
Saddle Brown also looks very nice and versatile. Do you think that you need a medium nib to get the full spectrum of shading? I’ve sometimes been disappointed with browns that are too light with an F nib (bought a sample of Robert Oster Caffe Crema, but it really was too light for my daily use unless in an M, B, or stub).
The Diamine guitar inks just generally look like nice autumn inks - nice!
That is a pretty fascinating ink - seems to be a totally different color depending on nib and paper…
Definitely had that same mixup briefly.
TROMPE was the one that clued me in, though. Definitely love a good trompe l’oeil…
Wow, I really enjoyed that one!
Lots of great fill (spoilers)
First, the triple stacks in the NE and SW: CLEARASMUD // TORTELLINI // EARLYBIRDS and IMPRIMATUR // SPOONERISM // HERDEDCATS. I almost stood up and applauded!
The downs are great too. TROMPE l’oeil, TORPOR, CLAWFOOT (with TUB for good measure), TEDLASSO, a great bit of light misdirection in the clue for STEEPENS, RANRIOT, DEALIO.
Working in both a good Always (PADS) clue and MIRENA to get away from the usual old white guy bias? Cluing TASSEL in the burlesque sense? JET clued in relation to Ebony magazine? I’m here for all of it!
Essentially a perfect Friday for my taste. 👏👏👏
Yeah, really agree - but I was surprised by the lack of rebuses or other tricks. Seemed much more like a Wednesday? But still fun!
That was… something.
3·1 year agoYeah, I barely use quick tap. The swipe down was so intuitive, and with a bigger phone triple tapping requires you to rebalance the phone in your hand, etc.
Do you have Quick Tap enabled? I have mine set up to show notifications (I miss the old ability to swipe down on the rear fingerprint reader), but yours might be set up to play/pause media.
Yeah - it took me a minute even after finishing the puzzle but was somewhat rewarding. Hard to do a good theme on a Monday, but this was an ok one.
Thought this was a pretty normal difficulty for a Monday, but the fill seemed really clunky…
spoilers
Too many unnecessary plurals, several of which took crosswordese answers and made them worse by adding an S just because: MEDAYS, NOOKS, ROOS, RENTS (clued as a plural noun instead of a verb?), ETAS, SSNS (!), and more.
The rest wasn’t great either. USHAPED USTOO ORALB etc. Mondays are supposed to be cleaner than this…
4·1 year agoIs it just the “blowhole” described here?
https://fountainpenchronicles.blog/2022/06/27/breathe-just-breather-tube/
I don’t have one of these, unfortunately, so don’t have a comparison…
Follow-up - I bought this and it works great! And yes - it is really thick. I think the reams of the usual printer paper at the office are going to develop an inferiority complex. Thanks again for the recommendations!
That’s wild! I thought it was fairly easy for a Friday, but still took me 19:20 (5 minutes faster than my average, but you must have been flying!)
Yeah that was definitely the worst of the fill… Not super fun, that one