Editing The Pen Addict 136/transcript (section)

== Ink Correction ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I think we might have to, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Speaking of ink, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get your mind off of the, off of your ink. Um, I have a correction from last week. Um, I was mentioning the new 2015 Lamy AL star in the orange and they were selling, uh, orange ink cartridges to match it. Yeah. And, uh, right after the show, everyone let me know that last year's Coral Safari also had a Coral special edition ink that they sold with that. And I remember once people started, uh, pinging me that I realized, yep, absolutely. But, um, that's, that's cool. I I'm glad that they do that little extra thing for these pins. Cause Lamy actually releases a lot of special editions, kind of like retro 51. You know, there's like, if you miss one, you know, just wait a few months and there'll be another one you can, you can pick up. So anyway, I just thought I wanted, I wanted to make that correction.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sorry. I remember a bright yellow one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh yeah. I have that one. That was, that was one of my first fountain pens is a, um, like a chartreuse fluorescent yellow, uh, Safari. That was one of my first fountain pens that I owned. Still have it. Never use it sitting away in the closet, but, uh, I do have it. And, uh, every now and then I'll break it out. I, I really love how the Lamy Safari feels, um, when I write with it. It's just a good pen. I just never write with it just because of all the other pens I have, but it's very, very enjoyable when I do. And it's one of those pens. I have pens that I actually miss when I don't use them. That's one of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So kind of like your ink.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, let's, let's get happy for a moment and talk about, uh, one of our really good friends. And, uh, we got a bunch more to get to.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let's talk for a moment about our friends over at hover. They are the best place to buy and manage domains. If a dot grid domain was available, that is where I would have rushed to buy orange dot grid for Brad. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's going to be a, there's going to be a land rush.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was, I was going to go and buy all of the dot grid domains that were available. However, none, none, not a TLD dot grid does not exist. However, hover has all of the ones that you would want though. Like if they have hundreds of options of TLDs, they used to have, you know, what it used to be, right? They have all of those ones. They have your dot coms, dot cos, dot net. They have dot me. You can go dot co.uk, dot tv, dot fm, you know, all the standards that you've been used to for years, but they have so many more. They have, oh, like you name it. They've got it. You want to get dot diamond. Maybe you want to get dot limo. What about dot x, y, z? You can get all of these at hover.com. They have all of the top level domains to maybe, you know, maybe, maybe you're looking for dot business. Maybe you've got some business you want to do, you know, uh, maybe you're looking for dot fish. Maybe you're a fishing person. You want that kind of thing. I'm just looking through hover's website right now. There are hundreds and hundreds of options, all at great prices, really competitive pricing. Hover aren't the cheapest, right? You can go to other places and you can find cheaper, cheaper domains, but I tell you what you're not going to get with those people. You're not going to get a fantastic experience, right? You're not going to get a site that's going to take you all the way through without hassling you and bothering you. You're not going to get a company that doesn't email you with stupid promotions, right? Hover don't do any of this. And if you go somewhere else, that's what you're going to find. You go to any other domain registrar, you're going to get a terrible experience. Hover have fantastic customer support. They have a no hold, no wait, no transfer television support policy. They have great email support. This is what you get with Hover, right? This is what you're getting. You're not getting people that don't care about you and don't ever want to speak to you on the phone. With Hover, you get Whois privacy for free, including with all of their domains. Basically, what this is, is it keeps your personal information private. When you register a domain, a bunch of free information gets entered into this database, which people can search on and they can find your information if you don't have Whois privacy. Every other domain registrar that I've ever seen or had ever used before I found the wonder of Hover will charge you extra for this. And this is insane. Why should you have to pay to keep your personal information like private? You just shouldn't have to pay for that. Hover believe in that and they give it to you for free. If you have a bunch of domains elsewhere, you can use their valet transfer service. They can basically, you just give them all the information that Hover needs and they will take all of your domains from other places and they will bring them into Hover for you for free if you switch them to Hover. Which is incredible because you don't get all locked up in the crazy DNS nightmares that these other services want to do to stop you from leaving. Hover are the experts. They know what they're doing. I love them. I couldn't speak highly enough of these guys. They're fantastic supporters of what we're doing at Relay, but more than anything else, they have a great product. If you are looking to buy a domain name, go to Hover.com. If it's your first purchase over at Hover.com, you can get 10% off if you use the code space credits, all one word. That will also show your support for this show. If you've used them to buy a domain in the past or you used them to buy another one, you may be an existing customer, tweet at them as well. Say that you heard about them on this show. That will really help us out. However you want to tell Hover, if you use the code, let them know on email, social media that you know about them from the pen addict. It will really help us. Thank you so much to Hover for supporting this show and for helping us out at RelayFM.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's awesome. Space credits. Space credits. So I don't want to take credit. The space credits thing is something that I keep saying over and over. Ed Jelly gets full credit for the term space credits. I just want that to be on the record. So people credit that to me. And it was actually Ed Jelly blew our mind one time when he was on our show. And that refers to that PayPal account where you keep kind of the fun money in. Those are your space credits. And that has stuck. And it's a brilliant term.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Our label mate, Michael, Mr. Stephen Hackett, our friend and cohort here at RelayFM, he had a post on his 512 pixels blog that we will have in the show notes at relay.fm slash pen addict slash 136. The title of the post is called On Paper Notebooks in a Digital World. And Stephen's an actual, he's a paper convert as of a few years ago. Carrying, you know, a field notes book or some type of memo book with him. And he just did a short post on how he files and sorts and scans and does some of the stuff. He's done this before and he's just kind of done an update on his field notes. I wanted to put that in there and send you guys his way to read this post.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It just shows how he goes through things. And I failed a little bit at this system. But it's always one of those things that I want to do. I don't know if you're, do you, we've talked about scanning before and we've talked about like DoxyFlips and things like that. Do you still scan notebooks or have you ever gotten into like a heavy scanning notebook archival workflow type of thing?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have scanned them and I have a stack of five here waiting to be scanned. But that stack has been growing quicker than I've been scanning. The best thing about Stephen's post is just to look at the image. Of his field notes covers. I just love the way they look.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I totally, I maximized that and like went through all of them. And it was just fun to look at, you know, the, the worn images of the covers. He does a full cover shot front and back as the cover image for that file. It's pretty sweet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Pretty sweet. Yeah. So that's something.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you can guess every edition, you know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Ooh, yeah. Yeah. Don't get me started on that now, but I'll start looking. But yeah, super cool post by Stephen. Go check it out. For sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Something that just popped in our feeds literally 30 minutes before the show, Myke, I'd say. was an interesting item on the, was it on Amazon, the UK Amazon store?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Amazon.co.uk. This came to us from Ben Weil on Twitter. Basically, at the moment, you can get a capless fountain pen fine. It's a pilot vanishing point. Exactly. Exactly. It's known as the capless in other markets. Like in the UK, it's called the capless. You can get it for £54 at the moment, which is incredible for a price. I don't really know who's selling this. Like it says it, but I don't know these people. But like they're doing, like you can kind of see like customers have viewed this also. There are a bunch of different places that you can pick one of these up for. It's a great price if you're looking for a vanishing point and you're in the UK. So I would definitely check it out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So just, you know, top of the head conversion. That's probably like around $100 US, which is way cheaper than you can get a vanishing point for. Yeah. Normally, they're usually 140 is about the going rate and they rarely go on sale. Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's hard to find a pen that is cheaper to buy in sterling than it is to get it converted from dollars. And this is one of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So, yeah, that's very cool. I did the same thing you did. We both did. Whoa, that's a great price when we saw that come through our feeds. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' On the flip side, the not a great price. It looks like the Estabrooks are becoming available.