computer pens!
(On sff.net, we're talking about pens that have wiring to automatically enter graphic or alphanumeric input into a home computer . . . )
David, the timing of your Wacom link was an interesting coincidence -- I just got back from the MIT Coop bookstore, where I'd been captured by a display for their rival, the Livescribe "Echo."
The Livescribe costs about half as much but has real drawbacks, no pun intended. You have to use special paper, which is what has kept me away from the devices in the past. I like to write and draw in nice bound books, which I can put up on the shelf with their pals. The Wacom can do this, which makes it really interesting, even at $200.
The other big drawback, both the pens share -- nobody who writes or draws with a fountain pen is going to like being restricted to a ball-point. That might seem like a small thing, but it isn't, if you spend a large fraction of your day writing and drawing.
I ought to write them and ask whether they want a testimonial. Of course if I like the machine I'll endorse it even if I have to pay for it. May have to wait for Christmas, though.
Wrote for a couple of hours this morning in a pleasant coffee house, and then went off on a sad sort of mission. Ottone Riccio, Ricky, my old friend and mentor, has moved from nursing home into hospice. (Same room, actually, just different care and intent.) He's a little confused but was not in as bad shape as I'd feared. Bad kidney problems, not simplified by turning 90. Mutual friend Mary Zoll picked us up at the end of the Green Line, Riverside, and drove us another fifty miles or so to his hospice place.
Sad business, but it was good to see him. Perhaps not for the last time.
Joe
David, the timing of your Wacom link was an interesting coincidence -- I just got back from the MIT Coop bookstore, where I'd been captured by a display for their rival, the Livescribe "Echo."
The Livescribe costs about half as much but has real drawbacks, no pun intended. You have to use special paper, which is what has kept me away from the devices in the past. I like to write and draw in nice bound books, which I can put up on the shelf with their pals. The Wacom can do this, which makes it really interesting, even at $200.
The other big drawback, both the pens share -- nobody who writes or draws with a fountain pen is going to like being restricted to a ball-point. That might seem like a small thing, but it isn't, if you spend a large fraction of your day writing and drawing.
I ought to write them and ask whether they want a testimonial. Of course if I like the machine I'll endorse it even if I have to pay for it. May have to wait for Christmas, though.
Wrote for a couple of hours this morning in a pleasant coffee house, and then went off on a sad sort of mission. Ottone Riccio, Ricky, my old friend and mentor, has moved from nursing home into hospice. (Same room, actually, just different care and intent.) He's a little confused but was not in as bad shape as I'd feared. Bad kidney problems, not simplified by turning 90. Mutual friend Mary Zoll picked us up at the end of the Green Line, Riverside, and drove us another fifty miles or so to his hospice place.
Sad business, but it was good to see him. Perhaps not for the last time.
Joe
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