Don't Regret the Snark

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worldwood said:
i love my KOH-I-NOOR rapidomatic 5635

I want to try the rapidograph.

Hows that for off topic LMAO
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I have two sets of those things from time spent "manual" drafting (before CAD) and other time working as a graphic artist. They are great, but require regular maintenance and/or use; I'd be surprised if any of mine are even usable anymore. Maybe after a day in the ultrasonic cleaner I don't own and a weekend breaking them down and putting them back together....I'm just not getting rid of a $200 set of pens, even if they aren't functioning.
 
granitestateofmind said:
I have two sets of those things from time spent "manual" drafting (before CAD) and other time working as a graphic artist. They are great, but require regular maintenance and/or use; I'd be surprised if any of mine are even usable anymore. Maybe after a day in the ultrasonic cleaner I don't own and a weekend breaking them down and putting them back together....I'm just not getting rid of a $200 set of pens, even if they aren't functioning.
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I can't tell you how many hours I have bent over a sink cleaning those things. Not to mention the self tattoos when i went to pick one up and jabbed the point into my hand. I must have a thousand one dot tattoos on my arms, hands, and fingers. The worst were between the fingers into the soft meat of your hand.
I'll bet I have drawn MILES of lines with them and I don't mean scale miles.

Doc
 
IBTL.
just in case you guys go crazy overnight again.

on it's way down to 9F.
bleh.
 
james terrio said:
Seems pretty clear to me. It got a little out-of-hand between competing manu's, and got distracting.

A place for everything, and everything in its place :thumbup:
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mixing it up a bit has in the past been okay

but constantly harping on it, leading to hate speech against the other maker

we don't need that kind of hypocrisy, know what i'm saying?

things come and go. some can just go. leaves more room for new things.
 
Back when I got off active duty, I went back to school for a 2nd degree in CS (I had put in 250+ resumes and applications and gotten 1 interview - there was a recession in Texas in 88). Since my Ag degree at A&M didn't require a foreign language, and the CS degree at UT Austin did, I chose Spanish (duh).

4 of us CS majors ended up in the same M-F 8 a.m. class. So what the heck.... we all took the same 4 semesters together. The final for the 4th semester required a 15 minute conversation with the Instructor monitoring. We worked like hell to script something up and practiced for days. Came time for the exam and we were ready. 11 minutes into the conversation, the Instructor stopped us and asked "Just what language are you 4 speaking?" Being the leader/instigator of our group (I was 34 and the others 19/20) I said, "Why, Spanish, of course." She said "I'm hearing the words but it doesn't sound much like any Spanish I know."

A little more question asking revealed that our 4 instructors were a Blond Jewish female from San Diego CA who spoke pure Spanish Castilian, a male native Peruvian, a male native Brazilian (his Spanish had Brazilian Portuguese influences), and a finally a female from Argentina. As an example of our "Spanish", we had 3 different words for banana (which we used interchangeably when speaking with each other along with many others), the vocabulary we learned each semester was spoken with the accent of the Instructor we learned it under with our Texas accent influencing everything.

She said that we obviously had held a conversation, the words were in Spanish, if not making any sense to her and that the best she could give us was a "B". We said "Thank you" and she left. We then did happy dances because we were hoping to pull out a "C". :D We ended up with "A"s overall because of the written exams.
 
Any watch fanatics here? I'm eyeballing the Casio prw 3000-1a pretty hard.
 
1066vik said:
IBTL - it's close to nap time.
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nap spelled backwards is BAN BAN BAN

serially, you people, read some books :> well, except vik, he reads already. i can tell. filled with wisdoms...

lol :D
 
DerekH said:
Any watch fanatics here? I'm eyeballing the Casio prw 3000-1a pretty hard.
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well, i got an old and new Suunto, and i like them...

but Casio invented ... everything. no really, they did.

i had a calculator watch of theirs back in 1983. scientific functions!

sold that bad boy on ebay for $$$ you have no idea :D

prw-3000?

well. solar. atomic. good. what's not to like?

unless that is not their ultimate model?
 
holy shiite. $1000 Suunto models. crap sticks.

casio? gotta like solar/atomic... but no moon/sun/tide? no.

seriously kids, i had some good watches in my time, from casio even, but they seem so ... like gimmics.

got a citizen solar, going on 20+ years. still runs. haven't changed the battery yet. oh hai, it's solar. eventually, that thing is toast. then again, so are we.
 
Tapatalk malfunction again. Lesson finally learned.
 
final (i hope word from me tonite), and probably echoed by the other mods... (they are my minions :>)

this is Ethan's home

we work here

we are not paid to be here

if you make us work, we will not like it

you are guests. there are house rules.

some of those rules are over and above BF. read them.

there is a test.

Ethan asked for this forum, we helped form the rules, with his blessing

we really don't care if you like it. Ethan cares. think about Ethan.

we're not usually hard asses about it. Ethan is too nice for that. we're not.

but, now and again, there is a reminder.

please. read spark's rules. then read ours.

then abide.

mess up? we mods can handle that, we're nice. F*******K up? supahs get involved a lot. few have ever come back from that.

you like it here? play nice.

this has been your end of the year reminder.

whee!
 
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