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I bought it from a fancy pen store in Boston, Massachusetts. We took an Amtrak trip across the country in the fall of 2019 - it was destined to be our last trip for a while when COVID hit shortly after the new year. Since then I've decided that big trips will include buying a new fountain pen...

But you can't sell the same product to the same customer again unless it's somehow "new."

The problem is with our expectations as computer users, John. We think things should continue in the way they are (with improvements), but operating systems are constantly reinventing themselves nowadays, and, if it's true what they would have you believe, people actually want this kind of...

Here's an older photo of my everyday carry Kaweco Sport with the EF (extra fine) nib. It's still my go-to, along with the Field Notes blank notebook beneath it... though the latter has been discontinued, and I bought up a good supply from the second hand market to make sure I don't run out...

A fine idea!

I also have a Parker Jotter fountain pen. It's solid and simple and writes well. Mostly metal, too.

Ohh man, that is a nice pen! I've gotten into Kaweco pens and have three of their regular Sport models: black, burnt orange (whatever it's called) and most recently dark gray. I use the orange one the most with its extra fine nib, I find it has good steady ink flow but writes a thin enough line...

Honestly couldn't have come at a better time...

That was a wonderful bit of coverage, Mel. I'm glad that the league continues to lift up Linda's memory. It's a powerful story. I thought you did very well.

I'm sorry to hear about the anxiety, Ovi. Your photo essay really works, though - I would never have thought to do something like this, but it's great and it works on multiple levels. I can see the struggle you've been going through but also the work you are doing to put your energy into...

True Pacific Northwest weather: cold and rainy one moment, sun breaking through the next. Spring is predictably unpredictable.

The Steam Deck is quite fantastic in many ways. It doesn't quite replace a Switch OLED, to my mind, because of the small but meaningful difference in size, and the Switch somehow handles being connected to a TV much, much better than the Deck. I also miss the native YouTube app - it's really...

Sounds very interesting! I love that genre of Pacific Northwest Weird.

True words!

I have played the heck out of survival mode. Most of my playthroughs eventually end in disaster, but all told I've explored the regions many times over, with the exception of the new region added in Tales from the Far Territory.

It's one of my all-time favorites.

This past weekend I made the 3+ hour trek to Portland for an Axis & Allies board gaming get-together. The Global 1940 ruleset makes the game gigantic and last quite some time. My Axis teammate and I ended up surrendering on the second of two evenings, probably total play time of 8 hours.

$12,000 a month... criminal. Imagine if these companies had to actually compete for business instead of relying on cornered markets, patents and lobbyists.

I despise timberwolves. They're my least favorite mechanic in The Long Dark.

Everything has its downfall. When I had the Switch I enjoyed YouTube while on the exercise bike. Now that I have a Steam Deck instead, I have to use a clunky workaround for adding YouTube as an app which still has the navigation of the webpage that it actually is.

Wow! Nice deal! The Switch OLED, if nothing else, is a fantastic YouTube machine 😄

LOVE The Long Dark. I played a lot of survival mode early on in the pandemic and it felt oddly comforting to be alone in a fictional wilderness when turning on the news or going outside resulted in a flood of doom and gloom from every direction.

May it be a very successful procedure! You are in my prayers.

Mel, I've thought of you often since you shared with us about Linda. I have questioned how I would be able to handle the loss of my spouse, and there isn't a doubt in my mind that I wouldn't be able to bear up in as constructive and courageous a way as you have - I probably wouldn't even have...

I've actually not run across someone who makes pens before, though a lot of photographers collect them. What a cool hobby!

Played some Sea of Thieves with the old crew last night. The quality of life changes they've made continue to make the game easier and a little less time consuming.

Finished Count Zero by William Gibson last week. I read most of it on vacation, took out a good chunk of it on the airplane back to Seattle from Athens. Starting Mona Lisa Overdrive, the third installment in the Sprawl Trilogy. They are good books, but not quite Neuromancer, and are not that...

Last night I restarted Alan Wake 2, the Final Draft. I had restarted the game once Final Draft was available but it has been a while so I figured why not start afresh. There have been a few updates and bug fixes since my last playthrough that are noticeable. Hoping I get enough time to work...

My philosophy is to own what I know I'll really want over the long term. I'm fine with subscriptions for the things I don't care as much about. Xbox Game Pass is the exception so far, because I would own Sea of Thieves (I do, on Steam) and Halo Infinite, among others, but I've stayed a Game...

I'm really sorry to hear that, John. I pray you'll have a swift recovery and lots of support by loved ones.

Starfield taught me how fed up I am with the traditional Bethesda game design. I loved immersing myself in their worlds in the old days, but you can't keep releasing games with the same kind of NPCs, quests and graphics design when the medium has had so many improvements. I do hope they take...

I've gotten into The Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. On the recommendation of early JRR Tolkien via his book of letters (which I'm also re-reading). Albeit, not in the original Finnish that Tolkien was reading (show-off!).

I really enjoyed Forza Horizon 4, with its UK-inspired setting. This reminds me that I had started the new Forza Motorsport before Alan Wake 2 came out. I should fire it back up. I always enjoyed the Forza Motorsport series.

Friends and I are currently playing the board game War of the Ring. Risk Legacy is coming out this weekend as well.

https://s.team/y23/jhbbrkw?l=english I'm not much of a Steam/PC gamer, most of my activity is on Xbox. So, this is pretty much exclusively my Steam Deck behavior. The fact that 40% of my playtime was Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes is perhaps a tad embarrassing, but it is very fun to pick up...

That's a bittersweet decision to make, I am sure... but it'll be better not to have it lying around. There may well be a future opportunity to have Nintendo in your home, who can say. I bid adieu to my Switch OLED when I bought the Steam Deck. I do miss sometimes how relatively portable the...

As with all goofy old sci-fi movies, if there's a version from Mystery Science Theater 3000, that the one I want to watch.

I'm immersed in Alan Wake 2, which is shaping up to be a better sequel than I could have hoped for. The original game was a quirky masterpiece which pushed storytelling boundaries in games. It had strong Stephen King and Twin Peaks vibes. But this sequel is not only one of the best looking games...

I'm confused... if we set our clocks forward to standard time, isn't the day 23 hours long? I thought we just got to experience the 25-hour Sunday.

Welcome over!

Anthony of course shows everything through his particular lens, so it doesn't provide a full scope of the colonial and post-colonial history. But as always his writing (the show scripts are always written by him) and insights are a joy to experience.

I remember watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain (probably Parts Unknown) with a river trip through Congo, depicting the same thing. Half-derelict French buildings being overtaken by nature while aging people still went there to work daily. It was really surreal to see on screen.

Started Asimov's Foundation Trilogy a little while back.

Them are whirley-birds, Kevin!

Wait... I thought the "Bird" tag redirected to the drone section :hmmm: Kidding!

Oddly, I don't enjoy watching scary movies, but used to be into scary video games. Something about a game being able to channel my tension into the controller versus sitting literally on the edge of my seat with nowhere for that energy to go. I do enjoy movies and shows with a spooky atmosphere...

How dare ye impugn my honour??! I can talk gear all night... ALL night! 😁

I am hyped (and I don't often get hyped) for Alan Wake 2. The original is one of my favorite games of all time, and one which I've played through 5-6 times, I have lost count. With as wonderful as Control is, it really telegraphs how refined and mature Remedy's current tech and...

I just purchased Torchlight 2, hoping it will be a good experience on my Steam Deck. I'm waiting to play until we're (mostly) done with D IV so I don't get burnt out on the genre.

An update for anyone who cares, we've been enjoying Diablo IV couch co-op. The game looks and runs beautifully. It has the same sort of shallow gameplay loop as Diablo III (with some changes), but I don't mind this shift to casual RPG, as it's perfect for this use-case. One gripe, however, is...