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Grex > Agora41 > #50: checkbook cover and related topics such as mass transportation | |
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gull
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response 25 of 143:
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Apr 3 17:42 UTC 2002 |
The other day my boss was talking about how, in Finland, you can use
your cell phone to pay for stuff and it will be billed to your phone
account. He says there are vending machines there that work on that
principle.
Of course, in the U.S. any attempt to do something like that would be
blocked by the many incompatible cell phone networks we have. We
probably should have set universal standards, like we did with
television, instead of letting the market fight it out.
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jp2
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response 26 of 143:
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Apr 3 17:48 UTC 2002 |
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scott
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response 27 of 143:
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Apr 3 17:52 UTC 2002 |
Re 22: I sign my name on the little touch-sensitive pad at the checkout,
which captures the image of my signature.
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orinoco
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response 28 of 143:
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Apr 3 19:04 UTC 2002 |
Interesting. Scott and I seem to live on completely different planets.
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rcurl
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response 29 of 143:
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Apr 3 21:34 UTC 2002 |
Now we know what scott is - a pen moocher.
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other
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response 30 of 143:
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Apr 4 00:51 UTC 2002 |
No. For the pad, all he needs is the stylus from his palm pilot.
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mdw
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response 31 of 143:
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Apr 4 02:08 UTC 2002 |
My experience with ball-point pens is that they nearly always leak if
stored point upward. The exception is a few of the more expensive
designs, which have a special enclosed ink storage reservoir. On most
pens, the ink reservoir is an open ended plastic tube. If the pen is
stored point upward, or especially, if it's kept in a warm pocket (so
that the ink will be much less viscous), the ink will run downhill, out
the tube, and make a big mess.
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rcurl
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response 32 of 143:
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Apr 4 06:34 UTC 2002 |
Ohyes - it was remmers that is the pen moocher. But scott hasn't
explained yet how HE signs documents.
I always have three ball point pens in my shirt pocket (on to loan
to moochers and spare if another runs out - the only problem is
getting the moochers to return a pen), and in many decades of this
practice I have NEVER had a ball point pen leak when the pen is
kept nib up, summer or winter.
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anderyn
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response 33 of 143:
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Apr 4 13:15 UTC 2002 |
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gull
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response 34 of 143:
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Apr 4 14:12 UTC 2002 |
I keep pens on my desk at work, on my desk and in the kitchen at home, and
in the car. I find that in pretty much any other situation where I'm likely
to need a pen to sign something, one is provided.
The pens in the car seem to suffer a high mortality rate, though.
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mdw
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response 35 of 143:
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Apr 4 17:19 UTC 2002 |
I can only conclude rcurl is hiding a portable anti-gravity generator in
his pocket, the laws physics are just plain weird around him, or he's
never encountered cheap bic pens.
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rcurl
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response 36 of 143:
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Apr 4 17:59 UTC 2002 |
All my pens are cheap BIC (type) pens. Well, actually, one is now a U of M
pen, one is an NSS pen, and one has a red antique key stamped on it, but
no other ID, and boy are they cheap. (They are also all black, in case
that is a parameter of interest.....)
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janc
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response 37 of 143:
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Apr 4 23:38 UTC 2002 |
Since I started working at home, I stopped carrying pens (and wearing
watches). Previously I always carried both. In high school, Papermate
Powerpoint pens, in college, Cross pens, as a professor, Uniball Micro
pens. I never had any problem with any of them leaking. Except when I
put the Uniball pens through the laundry, and even then they only
occasionally leaked. The Cross pens never leaked when laundered. I
don't know about the Powerpoint pens - my mom didn't launder pens as
often as I do.
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mdw
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response 38 of 143:
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Apr 5 04:14 UTC 2002 |
If Rane has spent all these years carrying Bic pens pointy side up, then
there's got to be some sort of major loophole to the force of gravity
that only operates in his immediate vicinity.
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rcurl
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response 39 of 143:
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Apr 5 05:26 UTC 2002 |
I wish....
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russ
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response 40 of 143:
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Apr 5 12:28 UTC 2002 |
Re #38: I *told* you Rane was in outer space already. There is
next to zero gravitational gradient there, compared to old Terra
Firma. How much confirmation do you need?
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slynne
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response 41 of 143:
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Apr 7 17:12 UTC 2002 |
I once had a pen leak and put a big fat black stain on my purse. boo.
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gull
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response 42 of 143:
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Apr 8 14:44 UTC 2002 |
I used to use disposable technical pens, in college, because they wrote
smoother than ball points. Now I use cheap ball points, because the
company I work for provides them for free. Besides, I don't have
occasion to do a lot of handwriting these days anyway...mostly it's
just scribbled notes and signatures.
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response 43 of 143:
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Apr 9 20:01 UTC 2002 |
Anybody know of a decent place in Ann Arbor to obtain fountain pens?
Grrrr. I still miss Silver's.
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anderyn
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response 44 of 143:
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Apr 10 00:14 UTC 2002 |
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gelinas
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response 45 of 143:
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Apr 10 03:42 UTC 2002 |
The shop on Main is Mayer-Schairer. I like it, e'en though I don't buy much.
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cmcgee
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response 46 of 143:
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Apr 10 13:19 UTC 2002 |
Try Wilkinson's Luggage, on Main. The Caravan Shop in the Arcade
(on Liberty, forget the name). Other high-end gift shops.
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response 47 of 143:
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Apr 10 17:56 UTC 2002 |
Thanks. I've been doing a lot of writing lately and have been having
worse-than-usual writers' cramp. I'm thinking that going back to a
fountain pen (probably a relatively wide one) will help with that. I'll
check Mayer-Schairer and Wilkinson Luggage. Hmmm...isn't there some
fancy stationery-and-pen store on N 4th Ave around Washington someplace,
too?
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anderyn
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response 48 of 143:
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Apr 10 18:32 UTC 2002 |
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keesan
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response 49 of 143:
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Apr 10 20:25 UTC 2002 |
Is there some reason you use a pen instead of a computer or even a typewriter?
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