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== Ink Bottles ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So Kim on Twitter wants to know when you empty an ink bottle, do you keep them or throw them away? If you keep any, which ones? I actually haven't emptied many bottles of ink in my lifetime. That's what happens when you have like 50 or 60 bottles to choose from. You never empty one out even though you've used way more than one ink bottle full. But I keep any that I've used just because I don't really have a great answer for that. I just kind of like empty ink bottles. You know, I'll stick them around the desk or, you know, just reuse them, clean them out. You could use them for something else. You know, I don't really have any great ideas, but I don't throw them away. How about you, Myke? I've never emptied a bottle of ink. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm getting close to it with one of my Fuyugaki bottles. I'm getting close. I'm like at the point where it's becoming difficult to fill pens from that bottle. Right. Right. Because the ink is kind of all just like in the very bottom. So I have to like move stuff around, that kind of thing to try and get it to work.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So Supernat wants to know, I just got a $75 gift card. What pen should I get? So far I own a Metropolitan, a Twisby 580, a Pilot Vanishing Point, Noodler's Ahab, and one Vintage Flex. Thanks. Do you want to go? I actually have an answer. It may not be a good answer for Supernat because it's a very particular pen, but I actually have a very, what I think is a very good answer for this question.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't have a good answer, so I'm interested in what you have to say.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think you should get a Kaweco AL Sport, one of the metal bodies. The stainless steel one's coming out pretty soon. It looks amazing. I love these pens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' If you don't like that one, you can get one of the standard aluminum ones. They're about $65. They're a little cheaper. The stainless steel is probably, I haven't seen the price on them. They're probably more like $80, $90, $100. But any of the Kaweco AL Sports, it's so different from anything you have, and it's very functional and very useful and just an all-around enjoyable pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's an excellent, I think that's a really, really excellent solution.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so that kind of fits into that crew there because there's not anything great in that price range from a standard pen that I would choose over like the TWSBI 580 or the Pilot Vanishing Point, but something like the Kaweco AL Sport is right in that price point and a very, very good pen that'll last you a lifetime. All right, so this last Ask TPA question caught me off guard a little bit, and I'm not quite sure how to answer it. So I'm going to let you take this away and explain. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. So this is from...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Number one, okay, this is awesome, by the way. This is completely awesome, but yeah, go.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This comes from the Twitter user with the name at Myke underscore eBooks. Thanks. And the question is, come and listen along live to the Pen Act this week. We asked people to physically mail in they ask TPA questions.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So apparently Micah is setting up Twitter bots for you. Is this a Micah event?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, this is a Kyle Seth Gray thing. Kyle created a collection of Twitter accounts. I think there's one for me, there's one for Steven, there's one for Matt Alexander. There's a bunch of people that have these. And what it does is it looks at my tweets, and it takes two tweets, cuts them in half, and stitches them together based on a matching word, I think is how it works. So it tweets random stuff, which are just parts of sentences that I've said. So every now and then, it pops up in Ask TPA or Ask Upgrade. Like, for example, here's one that was 11 hours ago. The end of any hashtag Ask Upgrade for RelayCon Atlanta, the Pen Addict Live.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I love Twitter bots, by the way. Yeah. So I knew what this was, but we've never been caught up in one before. When it hashtagged the Ask TPA, which I don't see until I got in the spreadsheet, and then I just died. I thought it was awesome. I hope the Ask Myke eBooks Twitter bot keeps coming up with more Ask TPA questions, because those all get included.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This happens to me once every few months, either for, like, upgrade or for analog, where we do the same thing with the hashtag stuff. It just pops into my spreadsheet, and I'm like, oh, not again.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's fantastic. I love it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you can follow that if you wanted to see random collections of things that I say that are sometimes funny, most of the time nonsense. If you actually have something good for Ask TPA, we always appreciate the questions. You can just tweet to us with the hashtag Ask TPA. It goes into a document, and we can pull those out to try and answer for you on the show. Don't forget to go to the wiki at stationary.wiki. I mean, you can contribute there. We love to see people contributing to the wiki. It's awesome. And there's also the subreddit community, which is r slash penaddict, if you want to go and find some people to talk to there about the stuff that you love. If you want to find Brad online, he's over at penaddict.com, knock.co. He's at dowdyism on Twitter and penaddict on Instagram. I am imike on Twitter. Thanks again to Blue Apron and Pen Chalet for their support of this week's show. And most of all, thank you for listening. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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