are you or a loved one expecting to use a fountain pen for the first time this holiday season? you need this information.
fountain pens are making a comeback, with good reason. fountain pens require virtually no pressure to write, and many people used to ballpoint, gel, or rollerball pens will actually damage a fountain pen on their first use because of how much pressure they are accustomed to using. on the flip side, many people with joint pain will find that they can only write without pain when using a fountain pen.
fountain pens are customizable, reusable, ergonomic, comfortable, and utilize fantastical fountain pen inks containing shading, sheening, and shimmer.
using a fountain pen correctly for the first time just elicits that ever elusive and emphatic “oh.” you will, with likelihood, understand why people use fountain pens just by using one yourself. it cannot be put into words.
but before you learn how to use a fountain pen, you need to learn how NOT to use a fountain pen.
here are my top 3 tips for how not to use a fountain pen.
The report says that by year four of the Alexa experiment, “Alexa was getting a billion interactions a week, but most of those conversations were trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather.” Those questions aren’t monetizable.
So they didn’t want people using the very things they advertised as being useful; the reasons you’d tolerate an always-on virtual assistant in your life.
this is the kind of stuff the cyber dystopias never think to include. “spying on everyone couldn’t make enough money :(” like what
You know, I really thought that the Armored Skeptic videos where he talks about aurora effects giving birth to legends were supposed to be tongue in cheek, but it feels like he may have been on to something.