0.5mm vs 0.7mm graphite sizes is much like 9mm vs 45acp...they both work if you know what you are doing. - me
Looking for Caran d'Ache Type 55 2mm set and Rotation .7 pencils.
VertOlive (September 2nd, 2018)
We raised three kids on one income. The kids need came first, wants second and us last, but it was worth it. Both their mother and I had been latch key children. We ,knew how much of a difference it makes in a child's life to come home to a kiss and a cuddle instead of an empty house, and the sacrifices we willingly made were well worth it.
azkid (September 1st, 2018), Sailor Kenshin (September 1st, 2018)
I feel pretty blessed that my wife stays at home but it’s still a rollercoaster.
Andy's-log-log-duplex-decitrig.jpgPhotography
Astronomy
Birds
Reading - so many books, so little time
Slide Rules (first K & E was a tip for shoveling snow in 1970)
Bob
Making the world a more peaceful place, one fine art print and one handwritten letter at a time.
“If ‘To hold a pen is to be at war’ as Voltaire said, Montblanc suggests you show up in full dress uniform, ready to go down like an officer and a gentleman among the Bic-wielding hordes.” - Chris Wright
Paper cuts through the noise – Richard Moross, MOO CEO
Indiana Jones used a notebook in the map room, not an app.
www.bobsoltys.net/fountainpens
Great looking slide rule there! And a K&E no less. My collection is up to around 30 different K&E’s. Some Post’s, and others. I have my very first one that I got back in Puerto Rico, when my dad was stationed at Ramey AFB.
0.5mm vs 0.7mm graphite sizes is much like 9mm vs 45acp...they both work if you know what you are doing. - me
Looking for Caran d'Ache Type 55 2mm set and Rotation .7 pencils.
BlkWhiteFilmPix (September 3rd, 2018)
I write poems based on the prints. Do you know what ekphrasis is? I often write poems based on other works of art (you can see some of them online at the Louisiana Poetry Project under Denise M. Rogers). I'd love to have an original woodblock print, but alas, I do not have the funds for that.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
VertOlive (September 5th, 2018)
Ekphrasis, no, I never heard of that style of poetry before. I am more familiar with haiku. I like the haiku because it is shorter and to the point. They make great 3 minute read and reflect.
The Ukiyo-e I am familiar with because in school we did the Speedball block printing. The speedball being easier to work with and cheaper cost, etc.
You should check out David Bull on YouTube. He is good. Lives in Japan.
0.5mm vs 0.7mm graphite sizes is much like 9mm vs 45acp...they both work if you know what you are doing. - me
Looking for Caran d'Ache Type 55 2mm set and Rotation .7 pencils.
Speedball. Block printing. Ahhh, memories. Many of them painful!
(I am about to attempt printing on plexiglass or CDs.)
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
VertOlive (September 5th, 2018)
Reading
Reading
Reading
Birds
Rapidray (September 2nd, 2018)
0.5mm vs 0.7mm graphite sizes is much like 9mm vs 45acp...they both work if you know what you are doing. - me
Looking for Caran d'Ache Type 55 2mm set and Rotation .7 pencils.
0.5mm vs 0.7mm graphite sizes is much like 9mm vs 45acp...they both work if you know what you are doing. - me
Looking for Caran d'Ache Type 55 2mm set and Rotation .7 pencils.
My reading interests are broad. Modern and Victorian fiction, history, archaeology, pictorial art, architecture, palaeontology and a few other things.
I feed the local songbirds and I have a family of Herring Gulls which come for their bread every day. I'm generally interested in ornithology.
BlkWhiteFilmPix (September 3rd, 2018)
0.5mm vs 0.7mm graphite sizes is much like 9mm vs 45acp...they both work if you know what you are doing. - me
Looking for Caran d'Ache Type 55 2mm set and Rotation .7 pencils.
Watches, video games, mechanical keyboards, audiophile gear, my dog-o, cars, books, technology in general, ...
Rapidray (September 2nd, 2018)
There has only been one video game to catch my attention. I even went out and bought the game, the box to play it. Halo was the game. I heard they even planed a movie. Still waiting on that. Thanks
0.5mm vs 0.7mm graphite sizes is much like 9mm vs 45acp...they both work if you know what you are doing. - me
Looking for Caran d'Ache Type 55 2mm set and Rotation .7 pencils.
Latin-currently in private classes with a PhD Latinist
Medieval history, music, liturgy.
Recently replaced some of my pre-cross-country-move aquariums and am keeping four lovely specimens of Jikin. A fish breeding line considered a National Treasure of Nagoya Prefecture, Japan.
Masters swimmer.
Zero Dark 30 rower.
Extensive reader of non-fiction, topics ranging far and wide.
Life is so big and juicy!
Last edited by VertOlive; September 2nd, 2018 at 05:27 PM.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Rapidray (September 2nd, 2018)
0.5mm vs 0.7mm graphite sizes is much like 9mm vs 45acp...they both work if you know what you are doing. - me
Looking for Caran d'Ache Type 55 2mm set and Rotation .7 pencils.
"A Zero Dark 30 rower???" = "Zero Dark 30" is an offhand military term used to refer to being up before dawn breaks. A lot of PT (Physical Training) in the military takes place at Zero Dark 30. VertOlive may be a single sculler that works out at the break of dawn.
Last edited by junglejim; September 2nd, 2018 at 05:59 PM.
Rapidray (September 2nd, 2018)
" VertOlive may be a single sculler that works out at the break of dawn."
Yep, you pegged it. But here in the High Plains, the only water is inside the rowing machine!
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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