Tuesday, August 19, 2008

My Kinda People

Interesting blogs:

Strikethru -- typewriters, old cameras, typewriters, fountain pens, typewriters.... Kewellll! Current top entry? Crystal-clear typewriters, popular with jailers, as it's harder to hide a shiv in 'em. Ooooooo.

Ditto Pencilthings Info, connected to, it is true, a labor-of-love commercial site but itself more like chatting with the clerk on items of mutal interest.

...And a flat-out product (albeit with a clever blog, linked via "Home") for those who were let down when I mentioned grid-ruled steno-type books and then it seemed the product had been discontinued: a next-best thing at a lower price than the cool Rhodia (though their 8.5" square, spiral-bound grid pads are mighty cool, too): Field Notes, plain, simple 3.5" x 5.5" gridded notebooks just like Dad used to lose!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And when you're next in England: The Cumberland Pencil Museum!
review
Official Site

(BTW, the Nothing To See Here blog specializes in quirky, interesting places. You might enjoy this entry.)

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