Editing The Pen Addict 15/transcript (section)

== Vanishing Point Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Totally. Because that's what it does. It drains money from you. While we're on that subject, let's talk about the vanishing points. I've been using the vanishing point all week. I continue, there, there are things about it that I am in love with. There are things about it which it's a little bit difficult for me. So the things that I love, the line is consistent. I have not had any problems at all. I've not had any scratching. I've not had any spluttering. I've not had any line breaks. It has been perfect. Perfect. Not, and that is so rare for me with fountain pens. I've not, I don't feel like I've had to break it in in any way. It's just from the moment I bought it to, to be using it all week. I've been doing a lot of writing this week as well because I've had some stuff going on at work. Made me do a lot of writing. I've needed to do lots of note taking. And it's been perfect. The problem for me, Brad, is the clip can get in the way for me sometimes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, really? The way you grip the pen?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's because of my left-handedness. So I kind of have to, at points, I have to tuck the clip underneath my finger. And it's okay. But if I'm writing for extended periods, I need to take a few seconds break. So it's not a make or a break. Like, I'm still going to continue using this pen every day. But it is, for me, it would be the perfect pen if the grip wasn't there. If the clip wasn't there. Yeah, right on the grip point. Because holding it the regular way doesn't work for me. It's not how I hold my pen. I don't hold my pen to the left or the right in the opposite direction. I hold my pen typically from above and sort of curl around the page. Right. So it can kind of get in the way of my grip, which is a shame. But I've got to tell you, there is nothing more satisfying than picking up that pen and clicking. The feeling of clicking this pen. I've not had anything from my pen collection at the moment that I find more satisfying. I really feel like I'm about to do something awesome every time I pick up the vanishing point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a good point. And it does make you feel that way. It's just so solidly built. And it's just, yeah, I catch myself in meetings now just clicking. I have to finally stop. I'm like, okay, put the pen down.

'''Myke Hurley:''' See, that's the thing. Usually I fiddle with my pens a lot. Like if I've got a knocker, I will click and click and click. But I'm conscious of it because it's so loud.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. It is. It's very loud. It's not a little dainty sound. It's a thud. I mean, it's boom, as Mr. Hackett would say.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Exactly. He would say that. He does say that. So, you know, I don't really want to just be going.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So at the moment at home, when, you know, I'm using the vanishing point at work at the moment. And at home, the only pen I have used all week at home from my collection is the retro because I'm not using it anywhere else now. And I still think the retro 51 is my favorite pen of all time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And what I love about, see, this is terrible in a way, but what I love about it is they have so many models. So I'm just, and it's because I love it because there's so many, but it's terrible because I'm going to start collecting them. I think I need to just admit that that's going to happen and I'm going to start collecting them. And as soon as I can find some and I can get these new models, I'm going to buy about four or five of them. I know I'm going to do it. And there's nothing I can do about it, but I will collect these. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to collect them. So never mind.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Never mind. So we have some topics this week, right? But before we do that, should we talk about our first sponsor? Yeah, fire away. So our first sponsor this week is Squarespace. Everything you need to create an amazing website, which both looks extremely professional and has unparalleled reliability. I've been talking about Squarespace all of this month and I will continue to talk about them until the cows come home. I love Squarespace. For me, it's the only way that I would ever want to start a website. I have a personal blog, which is on WordPress. For whatever reason, I chose to do that. I don't know. And for some reason, I wasn't going to take it. I don't know why I didn't go to Squarespace with it, Brad. I think I'm a bit of a fool, but I'm taking it to Squarespace. That is a project for me that I'm going to undertake over the next couple of weeks. I'm going to move the mikehurley.net over to Squarespace as well because that's where its home is. That's where all of my web properties should belong. The reason I love Squarespace so much, I don't have to worry about the hosting. I have stats built right in, real-time stats. I don't need to wait for an hour or two days or a week to come back and check what my stats were. If somebody's gone and visited my site, it will show. If I want to see who's been linking to me, great. I get that too. I can get that on my iOS app, which I love, and I can post on the go from the iOS app. Fantastic. Now, we have spoken in the past about Brad was going to be bringing over his penaddict blog to Squarespace. Unfortunately, we had a bit of a hiccup. What did Squarespace do? He was talking with them. They fixed it. And you're going to be bringing the site over. You're going to finish the transition now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right. As of a couple of days ago, we finally got the... Basically, if you haven't caught up with all the podcasts, I hit a bug when I was importing my type. It was basically a TypePad import bug. And Squarespace worked to fix it. They actually pushed a fix to correct this in the future. So, if you're moving from TypePad, hopefully you won't run into the snags that I ran into the first time. I haven't moved everything over there. Made the big move yet, but I've done some testing based on the bug and the fix. And everything's working as I anticipated it to work. So, I will be getting the migration back in order soon. So, hopefully this weekend. We'll see if I get some time this weekend to give it a good go. And, yeah, I think we're going to be in good shape. I'm jonesing hard to get over there because I really want to use the iOS tools. They are so slick. It's not even funny. That's like the thing I'm most anxious for.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think the problem for you was you accidentally moved, didn't you? And then when you found the bug, there was not really too much that could be done because you'd moved the site over by accident. But now you can do it properly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I had a DNS change. I mean, I'm in the IT field and I know better than to do this. You don't make two changes at the same time. You make one change. You test it. If it's good, you make the other change. Well, I tried to roll two changes in at one time and I just ended up, you know, making my life miserable for a day or two.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Apparently, I'm going to talk about how far off the deep end you've gone with this Retro 51 thing. I'm thinking you might have to stage. Yeah, you might have to stage an intervention. You're going to start building Twitter feeds and all this stuff.