These two #Bulova #watches are easily in my top 5 watches. I love the #stories of them, and I love the #aesthetics.

A story of giving Citizen a second chance.

Additional photos: Citizen Classic & Zenshin Photos

When I started using Fountain Pens last year, I noted that there was something different about the quality of my writing. It seemed to have a different quality to it. At first, I couldn't figure out the reason for it. But as I kept writing I meditated on the subject. As I turned the idea around in my mind for a while, I came up with a few thoughts seemed to explain what I was both feeling and experiencing.

You've probably run into some Obsidian evangelist espousing some convoluted system of organizing all their notes, and building some knowledge base.[...] This isn't that article.

I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?, and found myself writing a lengthy response. But, after I wrote my response I reread Brennan's article and found myself in a bit of a quandary.

[…]

While he presented the counterpoints, or counterarguments to these positions, he didn't seem to treat them in the same manner as his primary arguments and points. That has caused me to think about his article from a different perspective.

I'm still new to typewriters. Looking around, trying to figure out what I should get. I did (do?) have a very old Underwood in the attic, but want to get something else.

I've been collecting a lot of images of water lately. This is the outgrowth of a post I made on Ennui Vagaries bout repurposing weather camera photos. [...]
While collecting a bunch of the sunset images tonight, I thought of the song Downstream by Supertramp.

Listening to Harry Partch is like going on a surreal archaeological dig through history. Only this is history reinterpreted by someone who has been taking shrooms for two decades. Yet, with the emergence of microtonality in the music of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Angine de Poitrine his works are more relevant today than ever.

I have been nearly obsessed with finding a good set of Parker 51 clones. I've had several (from Jinhao and Junlai) that have been disappointing. While they had the look and filling mechanism that I wanted, many of them would fail in terms of writing well, or in drying out. What exacerbated these purchases was that they would all come up when searching for a “Hero 601” on Amazon, which is the pen I'd seen reviewed that was often praised.

My Casio Lineage watch is one of the most worn watches in my collection. It's a nice dress watch that isn't too formal and works well with just about anything I want to wear. Recently I found a sporty twin for my Lineage watch. Here's a comparison.

Hi,

I had a couple of people mention they were getting an error trying to access a link I posted in c/fountainpens. One of the users (@[email protected]) created a traffic dump of trying to access the link using curl. He posted his results on this Opensuse paste bin.

He added this:

I guess Cloudflare prevents some web clients (like embedded viewer for a Mastodon mobile app) and some networks (like mine Uruguayan Internet provider) - I could open the feddit.online and see your post there in a desktop browser, but being forbidden to access from a mobile or via curl.

George

I don't recall any point in time where I had any interest in fountain pens. I was born well after the time of the fountain pen, and there weren't any relatives in my family that had any special attachments to fountain pens.

This morning I installed a music player that I am unfamiliar with, and decided that the first thing I should listen to is Angine de Poitrine Vol. 1 and Vol. II since I hadn't listened to them in a while. And then I found, by coincidence that they played the Montreal Jazz Festival last Saturday (June 27th, 2026) and broke the attendance record set by Stevie Wonder in 2009.

Are there any good modern lever fill pens? The only brand I can think of that is still making lever fill pens is Conway Stewart. Are there any others?

Four months ago I posted about this quirky pen I popped into my shopping cart on impulse one night while grabbing some supplies on Amazon.

Well, after that original post I didn't use the pen. I put it away in a case and I forgot about it. Recently, I bought a new, large pen case and moved most of my pens into that case. While I was doing so, I realized I had a bunch of pens that had been sitting around, inked, but unused, including this one.

Last night I pulled out ten pens (five Parker 51 clones, Lamy Safari, Hongdian M2 Brass, Hongdian C1, TWSBI Eco and this Wilknd) to clean out.

Of the pens I pulled out: 2 Parker 51 clones, the Lamy, and the Hongdian M2 Brass had dried out / failed to write. But the Wilknd, the one that was in the case the longest (except for the TWSBI and Lamy) worked immediately. After four months that pen was writing up a storm like I had just filled it and started using it.

Just goes to show: name brand isn't everything. Even the cheapest, no-name pen can perform as well as, and possibly better than a brand name pen.

#writerscoffeeclub May 31st what went right this month?

#WritersCoffeeClub May 28. Have you ever regretted cutting a scene?

#WritersCoffeeClub May 27: Do you read outside the genre you write?

#WritersCoffeeClub May 25: Share a late-stage change you made to a work.

#WritersCoffeeClub May 26: In what ways does your work defy expectation?