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== Notebook Size Discussion Shift ==


'''Adina Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But you standardize around a general size, which is what these companies do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And what gets me so bent out of shape, Adina, is that I actually make products for the notebooks to fit in.

'''Adina Hurley:''' Oh, I see you right now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, I have a little special place in the seventh circle for those who just don't do it right. And so, yeah. I linked Midori's MD Cotton page for those two who are interested to read on. And based on what they say, the sizes of MD notebook cotton have been optimized for drawing with the range now featuring FO size, F2 size, and an F3 variant. Incidentally, and this is all coming from Midori, the F stands for figure. This French standard is based on the golden ratio for portraits and other pictures. I think they're making this up completely.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That does sound like a really convenient lie.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, it sounds like, okay, we're going to kind of direct the traffic to, this is our stance of what the F size is. I think that's made up. Because when you go look at paper standards, which I look at too much, you can get A, B, and C sizes pretty regularly from any paper vendor, right? Like any paper source is going to list like these international standards. Yeah. And none of them list F. But if you go to the Wikipedia page, which you know is true, Myke, you go to the Wikipedia page, they have all kinds of sizes outside of A, B, and C. They even have F0 through F10 sized. But they call that, there's a chart on there for the dimensions of F0 through F10. The header of that chart calls it a hypothetical. I've never heard this word before. But I'm guessing it has to do with hypothetical or pretend, not official sizes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It doesn't actually exist? Like, I don't understand. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So this whole thing, I... That word doesn't exist. Hypothetic is not a word. Yeah. Huh. So I have more fun with this type of stuff than I should. It's really not that big of a deal. It's just more of a fun annoyance. But the problem is, I get the emails and tweets saying, Midori's switching to F. I'm like, what are you talking about? And then, you know, people are thinking it's the entirety of the Midori lineup. In the end, it's just the MD Cotton lineup. And what this is, they're more of a square notebook, really, for drawing. They're not quite square, but they're less rectangular and more square, if you'll just think of a general shape. But it's just, you know, Midori has so many products. And that's something I didn't even cover in my review. And I meant to, it was like in my notes to cover that. It's really hard to decide. And they're making it harder with this. But I don't know. It's just one of those little hills that I'll die on unfairly. With paper standards and other standards like that. But just to answer the general question, just the Midori Cotton Notebook, which before I think was only offered in three sizes. But even that, I could be wrong. You could pull up a page and probably find 15 sizes all of a sudden on it. It's switching to F. The standard notebooks, like I reviewed the other day, those are staying in the A and B ranges. So hopefully that's it for now. But I just had to talk about this because it's just right up my alley, Myke, just to complain about.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Relay FM membership. We did it. We did the thing. We built Lego. It took four and a half hours to build the San Francisco architectural Lego set. But this episode is now available for Relay FM members. There is a link at the very top of the show notes which says to click here to become a Relay FM member and support this show. You should do that. And you will get a bunch of amazing perks, monthly bonuses. There's a monthly host crossover show called Fusion, which is wonderful. There's a monthly behind-the-scenes newsletter. But you also get all of the Relay FM bonus specials. And this year's Pan Addict special is four and a half hours long. So you're definitely going to get your money's worth. If you would like to hear four and a half hours of me saying two by four flat piece, dark green to Brad, then we've got it for you. This one did not feature as many explosive moments as the previous one. But there is a general sense of frustration throughout about three hours of it. It was actually, we had a lot of fun building it together. It was not easy. This was a much more complex set than the London set was, I think. So yeah, please go and check it out. And if you decide to, which I think people should, I think it's fun, buy the set and try and build it along with my instructions themselves. Washing machines, pipe hole pieces, all that. The best thing about building Lego with Brad for four and a half hours is by the end of it, we have developed a new way of communicating, like just a brand new language. It's wonderful.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we'll put a hypothetical wiki page up with our new terminology.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think we could. We could standardize on this. So you click the link in the show notes or go to relay.fm slash penaddict or relay.fm slash membership. There's many ways to find out more and to sign up and become a Relay FM member. And you will get this along with all of the many other bonuses that we offer. Thank you so much to everyone that has signed up. Please keep signing up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I have to ask Adina if, Adina, were you home when Myke finished this recording by chance last week?

'''Adina Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah, I think I was.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Did you want to be around him when he was done?

'''Adina Hurley:''' I think I had no.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I only had like half an hour until I had to go do another show.

'''Adina Hurley:''' Yeah, so I didn't see much of Myke, but yeah. That day was a blowout. That was good. He seemed stressed. Yes, I was.

'''Adina Hurley:''' For various reasons.