Editing The Pen Addict 187/transcript (section)

== Quo Vadis Notebooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and then he also has Rodier Web Notebooks and Quo Vadis Habana Memo Books. These notebooks don't go on sale that often, and these are the smaller sizes, 3.5x5 and 4x6 notebooks, but for under $10 each, those are really, really good prices. And then he's got things like the Visconti Van Gogh Sunflowers. That's been a really, really popular pen in fountain pen circles. These are all on sale. And as always, you know, with Ron, you get some really great deals. And I hope he had a big Christmas because, boy, I was getting pinged left and right about all the hot deals he's had going on recently. So you should definitely check out what he's got going on at Pen Chalet right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No doubt. Thank you so much to Ron and everybody at Pen Chalet for sponsoring Real AFM and The Pen Addict. All right, so I've been sent the link to this pen by practically everybody on the internet in the last week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So all the links that we've got and we're sharing, you know, I tried to put, you know, who sent it to us. You know, we have some more down the line that I've attributed to individual people. But for these Star Wars pens that somehow we missed, I don't know if they were a late release or what, I just said this is via the internet because literally everyone sent it to us, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, it's been insane.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So most of them that came in were the lightsaber ones. That was the first one I saw. And then later, you know, I thought that was kind of the end of it. And then I kind of had the oh my gosh moment when I started seeing the X-Wing fighter fountain pens and the TIE fighter fountain pens. I had never seen those. Those are nuts. Those are pretty cool. I'm not going to lie. Those are pretty awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, there's an X-Wing one that I really like where it has refills and the ends of the wings. These are really cool. I mean, they're stupid prices, right? You're looking anywhere from 400 to 16,000 pounds for the levitating lightsaber fountain pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, yeah, cool. They look great. I'm not spending 16 grand. I don't know how they levitate like some kind of magic magnets. It does look really cool. But I mean, who? Who's buying it? Who's buying this? I don't know, man. But yeah, they're there. If you've got 16 grand to spend on a Star Wars Jedi Yoda levitation lightsaber limited edition pen, go for it. But I don't know who's doing it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We need to get John Bemis on this stat.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, there's only eight of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. This TIE fighter is sick. This TIE fighter is really awesome. And seriously, I mean, these pens, the Star Wars pens we've been talking about have been out for months. Where were these the whole time? Certainly, you know, they've been out. But they just appeared on the Internet like what the week after Christmas or maybe the week before we started getting the links. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. But I was really impressed with the design of these. I'm not going to lie. The price is stupid. I mean, it's just a total, you know, guilty expenditure. But man, the X-Wing and the TIE fighter are really, really cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, yeah. And they come in those cool stands, right? Where you can make it look like that. Yes. It's nice. These are like if you're going to spend stupid money on a Star Wars pen. These are the ones to go with.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. They're pretty cool. But yeah. Thank you, Internet, for sending us those links because we got them. For sure. They were awesome because when the first one came in, I had no idea. I had not seen these before. You know, I got the links on Twitter.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I thought it was a joke at first.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I thought the lightsaber was a joke until I saw the other ones. And then it kind of blew my mind. So, this next one is for you. This is actually via Julio on Twitter. Milarex sent it to you. It really was aimed at you and CGP Grey talking about the Apple Pencil. And I think what CGP uses this D-Brand skins for his phone, I think. And what they did is they made a skin for the Apple Pencil. How cool is this? Have you ordered this yet? You're ordering this, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I haven't, but I've considered it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. When I first saw it, I was like, man, that is cool. That is so cool. Now, I think the coolness would wear off. I'd probably want the traditional white just because that's kind of the design that it's supposed to be. It feels kind of dirty putting that on there. As cool as it is, though, it's pretty awesome. When I saw this, I was like, that is great. They really did a good job on this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' See, I'm the man, right? Who throws stickers all over his iPad. Right. You know what? It's six bucks. Right, right. I'm just going to order it and I'll see how I feel when it comes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I mean, it's an adhesive type deal. So, yeah. I mean, it's just a skin, not a case or anything. I don't know. I always worry about these things. I'm so, so in a row tent of that. Like, I would just stress out putting the thing on. If it was crooked, I would have a conniption. And like, rage tear it off. And it'd be done and, you know, $6 down the drain. But that's just how I am.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'm going to buy two of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Two to get one good?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. I figure I won't get it. And it's like they're shipping from the States. So, it's going to take a while to arrive. And if I get it wrong and then I have to want to order another one, it's going to take forever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And you'll end up with the second pencil anyway. So, if you get it right the first time, you'll have another one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I haven't bought the second one yet. But I'm planning on it. Like, I'm going to at some point. Because I know, you know, eventually I'm going to lose it. So, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, Dave Ray in the chat room is, I believe in this philosophy, is two is one and one is none.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. That's what we talk about on Cortex all the time. The rule of two, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. It just is. It just is. But this next item, Myke, you're not getting two of these. You're not getting any of these. I know. But this is a super old link. But I just got sent it this week. I don't know if this actually exists. I can't tell if this is a real item, was like a lab item or what. But I wanted to talk about it because it's kind of cool. Not that I would ever use it. But it's, what's it called? It's called paper to pencil. Where you take, like, your scrap paper from your office. You run it through, like, this scanner looking machine. Except it doesn't scan the paper. It rolls it around a graphite core. And makes a pencil out of the junk paper in your office. I mean, this link is from 2010. But I was still kind of impressed by it. Even if it's just like a mock-up. But I think it was real at the time. I don't know. It's either like a school project. Or it's like the scribble pen, right? That's all I could think of when I saw this. This is kind of like the scribble pen. Like, does this really work? I guess it does. I don't know how you'd sharpen your copy paper around the lead. But I got sent this link. And I had to include it. Because it kind of threw me for a loop there. What do you think about this thing?