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I have never seen montblancs mentioned in any sort of list of pens of any caliber. That being said I have never used one so don't know if it is all just clever branding or if there is any merit to their asking price. Anyone have one? There's a Montblanc store at the local mall that I was told I could not enter unless I was going to buy something that day. Needless to say I did not bother going inside after that even though I did go in with the mindset of grabbing something. That was a few years ago and I never bothered to revisit the brand. Instead, I found other pens that didn't cost nearly as much that gave me a lot of pleasure to use.

Oddly enough, the pen I tried the ink with first is cheaper than the bottle of ink itself Got myself a pilot metropolitan fine nib in the same order and it is surprisingly nice for being $12.50 shipped. The fine nib is finer than the other fine nibs I have and has a nice bit of feedback to it. Having never written with anything as scratchy, I don't have any feelings for or against it but it's growing on me. I only have a yellow source of light right now at my desk and the overhead white light in the room is not bright enough to get rid of the shadows caused by my hand so I'll try to take a picture of some random notes a little bit later. It is not nearly as dark as it seems in the bottle nor is it as pale as it seems on the label on the bottle on the outside. It seems like just the right amount of blueness for me. I am yet to find a heavy enough pen =/ The rotring 600 pencils/ballpoint pens have spoilt me. All these fountain pens I have tried don't seem to carry nearly the amount of weight I find myself wanting. The Rosetta North Star is the heaviest one I have and it is just on the wrong side of the balance I prefer. Posting the cap messes with the center of gravity so I don't like doing that. I would love to grab a rotring 600 fountain pen but given the cost and the lack of spare parts makes it a non viable option.

Just got this and a pilot metropolitan fine nib. Not sure I have seen a sexier bottle of ink. Just oozes awesomeness.

Where did you get a cut of lamb that thick, Dan?

Brent advised to share this here. Any interest?

Sprint had a plan a few weeks/months ago (not sure if they still have it going. I signed up in late February. Gave them my old ATT iphone and got an iphone 7 18 month lease for "free" (don't have any monthly payments). 1st line is $50, 2nd line is $40 (if you set up auto pay) + taxes. Lines 3, 4 and 5 are free until March, 2018. After which time I think they are $20 each or $30 each/month. Even with the jump, it is still less than what we were paying with ATT. There's no throttling that I have noticed. Between Julie and myself, we are going through ~70gb of data every month. Plus whatever the kids and my sister use (~40gb between the three of them). My sister is in school in San Francisco and has not noticed any coverage issues. I was there a few months ago and was perfectly fine. Only time it's been an issue is when we are driving through random sections of Alligator Alley but that's patchy service for any provider.

Got my mom the new macbook pro (i5/8gb/256gb) for her birthday. She had been using her 1st generation macbook air since it came out and it was starting to have issues. She mostly has a ton of browser tabs open, uses office software and does simple photo/video editing but she is certainly not a power user. The machine is quite snappy and should serve her well for some time to come.

Every Indian kids favorite snack. The ones actually sold in India taste waaaay different (better).

Check out the zalman zm 1 mic. It's the mic I used when I used to play counter strike. It has a little clip thing that attaches to the headphone cable as that was the intended use. It wasn't designed to be used clipped to a shirt perhaps.

Last night I used an oversized paper clip (the clamp type) to affix the Mic to my shirt. Seemed to work well in the 5 second test I did. Will try it with an hour long talk to see if the paperclip adds noise to the recording when it moves or keeps the Mic in a steady position.

Freak of a game. They aren't shooting 60% from 3 again.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/smartLavPls Would this be a reasonable choice?

I didn't even know he was going Out with one of them.

Night night Bron Bron.

I use snagit from techsmith to get record a screencapture from the surface pro with audio from the source I select (currently the zalman mic). I have tried using the built in mic in the surface but a few seconds after the recording starts the surface fan starts spinning at max rpm and that noise gets into the video. I would like to avoid adding another step to the whole process of adding the audio from the iPhone to the screen capture and then have to sync it. So looking for something I can plug in directly into the surface or something that Snagit will recognize even if it is a wireless device. Those tend to be outside my budget anyways so looking for wired solutions I guess. I'll check out that website. Thank you.

Need something to use with my surface pro 4 (usb or something wireless). I also have a cheap 1 square inch usb dac that I can plug in a 1/8" Jack for headphones and mics. Purpose is to record talks, presentations, lectures etc while I present/write on the surface pro. I currently have a zalman zm1 mic from my gaming days that I am currently using but I have to hold it to my face the whole time which is unprofessional and well, after holding the mic there for ~2 to 3 hours, my arm cramps pretty bad (it doesn't have a clip that I could use to clip it to my shirt/lapel). Google search has led me to mics and receivers and Wi-Fi extenders and god knows what else. Budget is $300. I need something reliable and good. Some lecture/talks might be published so don't want microphonic cables - the zalman Mic is absolutely horrible when it comes to this. @Knuckledragger, Brent said to check with you, but if anyone else has suggestions, please share them. I was recently gifted a blue yeti microphone and it is great for desktop use. It's a fantastic mic overall but not exactly portable. Thoughts/suggestions?

I think a middle school travel team would have scored more points by now. Celtics are really stinking it up this series.

That was quite amazing. If only I could have a pb/j sammich right now...

R. Free. Lots of documentation available. You can probably grab previously published code and change it to fit your needs as opposed to writing it from scratch. I hate using square brackets so never liked Mathematica for that reason alone. Also, back when I was required to use it, everything was too yellow...their documentation, logo, splash page etc. Hated that shade of yellow.

The distortion is slightly more apparent on my desktop monitor. On my phone it looked near perfect.

Fantastic images padam. Care to divulge how you managed to get the first one so parallel? A stitch is what I'm guessing but I've never been able to get the lines to go straight like you have been able to. Or did you just crop the image before things started distorting?

Night time in NYC.

Tonight we have skirt steak seared with yellow squash and white onions in a sweet pineapple glaze over yellow jasmine rice cooked with cardamom, saffron fennel and garlic.

Another one of Lisa.