Editing The Pen Addict 313/transcript (section)

== Receipt Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yep. So Sid Anderson says, what's the best pen for receipt paper? I work retail. I want something nicer than a big stick. So big sticks are actually pretty good for receipt paper. I'd look at the, um, if you want to like a true upgrade, either of the Uniball Jetstream or Pilot Acroball, which you can get at the, on the store shelf. Those are going to do real well on the receipt paper. Um, outside of that, you're just into your basic ballpoints, like the Inkjoy, the paper made Inkjoy, which I honestly, as good as the Inkjoy gel pens are, I did not have a great experience with those ballpoints. So I'd be looking at a Jetstream or an Acroball, um, maybe an Acroball because you can get those in like a, they're a little bit cheaper, a little bit thinner, have a little bit better grip than the Jetstream. So, uh, and you can find them at all kinds of stores. So it's really cool. Evan Max, I think is in the chat room today, Myke, but if he's not, well, well, embarrassing regardless. And, uh, this is a question I don't know the answer to, which is why I love this question. All of the steel italic stub nibs that I've seen available to buy off the shelf are untipped Lamy, Pilot, Nemecine, Kaweco, et cetera. The only steel italic nibs I've seen with tipping material on them are custom ground after the factory. Is there a reason for this other than saving costs on cheaper steel nibs for not tipping them? I never noticed the lack of tipping on steel nibs. Can you explain what tipping is? So it's essentially considerate. Like if you look, grab one of your gold nib pens and the tip of the nib has basically a ball of metal there that's then shaped into whatever shape the nib should be. So you could have a broad nib pen and it looks like it's a little raised rounded area. Okay. So that's the tipping. The very literal, the literal tip of the, of the pen of the nib. So a lot of steel nibs, the italic and stub nibs, like the Pilot ones, not tipped at all. And I love them. The Lamy ones are not tipped at all. And I love them. The TWSBI ones are not tipped at all, but they're rounded and softer. Like they have a wider depth to the steel, if you will. So while they don't necessarily have the big tipping, you know, they do have that softer, rounder feel in the nib as opposed to like the Pilot nibs. And why that's the reason? I don't know. I just cannot think of what that could be. So I'd be interesting to know if any listeners have any idea. While steel nibs don't have that tipping where gold nibs do, I'd have to actually look at some gold stub nibs. I almost never buy, trying to think what gold stub nibs I have. Like I've got gold broad nibs that I've had ground into a stub. So there's been plenty of tipping there, but I did an aftermarket grind. And I'll have to, this is something I'll have to think about it. So it's an interesting question. I never thought about it that way, honestly, because I like that steel feel of the, of the nibs, you know, the sharpness of like the italics. So yeah, like the chat room's yelling at me because they shouldn't be, they're saying that they shouldn't be tipped to begin with because to get that line variation. So yeah, which that makes complete sense. So, you know, with an italic and stub nib, you're getting a, a fine horizontal line and a thicker vertical line. You don't want the tipping to like dissuade from that, that type of shape. So yeah, maybe that's why.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Last question. Sarah wants to know, how's the upgraded internet treating you? When can we expect some Twitch streaming? So the upgraded internet, I wish it was at my house, but it's at the, it's at the remote pen addict, uh, office space. And it's kind of amazing because Myke and I's, yeah, studio B, Myke and I's, uh, three hour and 20 minute podcast from last week would have taken me hours to upload from my house. I think it took less than a minute from the other house. So that was pretty cool from studio B. So it's going good. I did a test stream yesterday and I'm looking at my schedule to figure out what I can do either tonight or most likely Thursday night for the first pen addict stationary stream. So stay tuned to the Twitter.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So people should subscribe to twitch.tv slash pen addict, right? That's where they're going to find it. If you go subscribe on there, you sign up, you subscribe.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just go follow and hit follow and you get on a little alert when I go live.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So follow, yes, that's the verbiage. Follow and you get the alert. Subscribe is a, it's a thing for later to give Brad money, but that, that will come later on, right? Yeah. We're not worried about that now. Follow and then also subscribe to Brad's YouTube channel, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So pen addict is on YouTube as well. So they have weird, not really direct links to send to that. I guess maybe you can get one later. I haven't totally get done that, but it's, I got it. There's a pen addict channel already there. I got it in the, in the, in the, it's in the show notes. So these videos will be saved. Like Brian in the chat room saying, ah, well, I won't be there, but that's kind of one of the reasons why I wanted to do it on Twitch. It'll be saved there for like two weeks or a month or something. And then it'll just be offloaded to YouTube and you can check it out later, but I will keep the stationary streams recorded and saved and offloaded to YouTube for safekeeping. And then any game streams I do, which will just be for fun. Those I won't save over to YouTube. So the YouTube channel will just have like all the, all the live stationary shows I plan on doing on Twitch.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I know it's, I know it's upsetting. If you can't make it, try and make it because it's so much fun to watch live, which is really, really, really excellent. I've been enjoying that a lot myself recently. I've been doing some game streams, which I've been enjoying greatly. Even you popped up when we were doing one yesterday. All right. So if you want to find Brad online, twitch.tv slash penaddict is a great place for that right now. But also Twitter. He is at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. Penaddict on Instagram, penaddict.com and knock.co for Brad's writing and wares. I am imike, I-M-Y-K-E. You can find this week's episode at relay.fm slash penaddict slash 313. Thanks again to Pen Chalet and Simple Contacts for their support of this house. I've read the chat. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I bought a whole new house just for internet, Myke. Yeah. Let's get that rumor going.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You got to do what you got to do, man. Fast internet is really important. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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