This year is the 10th anniversary of the great science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s untimely death; next year marks what would have been her 70th birthday.
As my stack of notebooks soared, so did my grades. Soon I was dragging extra paper into every class, including computer labs where my notebooks were the only dead trees anywhere in sight – leading to the slightly goofy spectacle of a computer science major scribbling down Java or C code snippets with a #2 pencil.
Just because you major in Computer Science doesn’t mean you need a computer for everything.
Our friends at Baron Fig are now excepting pre-orders for their new pen, The Squire. As with everything they do, it looks thoughtfully designed and made to last.
For a blog that reviews pens you would have thought I would have reviewed one of the most famous pens in the world by now. But I hadn’t, despite many, many calls to do so. Why has it taken so long for me to review the Bic Cristal ballpoint pen? I have no idea.
A reminder that you don’t need fancy, you just need functional.
But, can a digital solution replace paper journals? I doubt. I don’t think anything can beat the experience of writing down on paper, the freedom of doodling, writing asynchronously. Technology has a long way to go if it wants to replace paper.