Editing The Pen Addict 111/transcript (section)

== Field Notes Size ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So I opened them and felt like a tiny person. Because they are, like, just perfectly scaled up field notes, notebooks. Like, the front, obviously, you really only get that on the outside, of course. But everything is just perfectly scaled. Like, they're cut in the same way. Like, the proportions of field notes and N64, obviously, it's a different number. But, like, the notebook thing and durable materials is all the same. You know, everything is just, like, a funny, like, a bigger size, right? So there's only two in the pack this time. And I got a couple of the packs, I think. Yeah, the badges that it came with, because I'm a color subscriber, are really cool. So the little, is it debossed? It's debossed, not embossed, right? The debossed insignia that's on the back of them. You get little badges, which are really cool. But the thing is, the badges are also larger than the previous badges. And I wonder if they did that in the same way that I'm thinking about it, which is, like, everything's bigger.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I didn't think about that. I hadn't heard anyone else mention that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The badges are usually, like, those little pin badges, like the little small ones. But these are bigger ones, more sort of towards the size of birthday badges, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You'll have to explain us birthday badges.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you not have badges on birthday cards? No, I know, but I know what you're talking about. I'm just giving you a hard time. You people over there. You get your birthday card situation sorted out. I know, we do. So I haven't used them, naturally. I mean, I've opened them. I cracked them open. I really love the difference between the two of them. I like that, you know, one is arts and one is sciences. And the things that they print on the inside, obviously, they have a lot more space to print things on the inside. Like, pertinent coordinates, which usually is basically the whole thing, fills up, like, half of one page, you know? Right. But, like, I've got the sciences one in front of me, and it's got the periodic table in it. And I like that there's a little checkbox, which says this field notes book is a property of, it says Mr., Mrs., Ms., and Doctor. And then in arts, it's the, T-H-E-E.

'''Nifty:''' I didn't notice that. That's so, that's awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So just all these little things. I mean, you know, I continue to love the character of these things. The paper differences are really cool. So the plane one side, and then, is it lined in arts and this sort of scientific grid in sciences? Is that right? Yes, correct. Because do you know where the arts one is right now? Where? It's clipped into my rotor farden.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, nice. Yeah, it's the perfect size for that, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's a little bit smaller than the pads that come with the rotor farden, but it fits perfectly in there. And that's where it will stay now. So, I mean, I have, I ordered more than these than I need. But I don't know if they're ever going to make a size like this again. So, I mean, I have these two here, and I have another two packs coming. And these will probably last me the longest, because they, I don't actually take a lot of notes in the notebook that's in my rotor farden like that. But I do take long notes in there. Like, for example, I have my mid-year review at my corporate, corporate office job in a couple of weeks. And that's one of the things where I take a bigger page and I write it all out. Sometimes I have to draw tables and charts and stuff, and I draw them out in the bigger notebook. So I'll be putting all my big notes. Big boy notes will go in these larger field notes. I feel like there needs to be a name given to the larger field notes. Like, they need to have a name that we refer to them as. I know we've got the arts and sciences, but like, I don't know, field notes or something like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They're fieldier. I hope that they, I think it would be really cool to see, they've kind of opened Pandora's box now. Because they did something that we never expected them to do, I think. Which is to make a different size of the standard notebook. So, unfortunately now, you know, we're going to expect A4 sizes. We're going to expect all sorts to come from them. And I hope that they continue to play around with the format. Because for the amount of field notes, notebooks that I have, and all color subscribers have, because we're addicted to these things, it might be nice to mix up some other stuff other than just color. Like, until just now, I totally hadn't realized that there's nothing to these from the paper side on the outside. Because, you know, like, recently what it's been is, how cool can we make the front cover? Right. And these, they're very, very nice, but they're simple. They're like throwback, kind of. They're just new colors. They're just nice colors, and they have a little deboss on them. So I hope that they continue to find new ways to play around with what the notebook actually is. Now. But, yeah, so that's kind of my first look impressions.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So they will definitely be in use by you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yeah. I mean, as I said, they won't be used very frequently, but it's nothing to do with the book. It's just how I use notebooks. But, yeah, these will live in the Rotofaden now, so I'm rounding out the Fieldness experience. People at work are going to be very confused.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because today, I had two separate people comment on how, I find it so funny. I always have that little notebook. And I'm like, I never lose them. That's what I say. It stays in my pocket. Yeah. And they're walking around with these, like, banner. Are you familiar with the brand, Banner? It's like a corporate office supply company. Yeah. And everybody's got these blue banner notebooks at work. Sure. Because they're the ones that are in the stationary cupboard. And I'm like, don't you say a word.