Today we raise our hands and salute Bostitch, for fighting the spread of microbes one sharpened pencil at a time!
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Ok, I’ll bite. Do microbes live on pencils and thus sharpening them shaves them over to die a woody, graphite death?
Do people still use these crank pencil sharpeners? I suppose there are some old-school people who prefer them. I rarely use pencils, but when I need to sharpen one, I like the technology of the electric kind.
@ Maire – I suppose I must be old-school, but nothing works as well as the crank pencil sharpener. There is no better technology.
@ Maire + Mark,
This is a conversation we’ve had before on this fair blog:
http://www.chickenmonkeydog.com/good-old-fashioned-technology/
And I’m with Mark on this one!
Mechanical pencil.
That’s it.
Mechanical pencil.
Mechanical pencils are for sissies. You can’t push down on the paper without breaking the tip. Proper pencils, with thick lead, well-sharpened (with a mechanical sharpener – or even, in a pinch, an electronic sharpener) are the only way to write a proper emphatic missive.
@Susan Miller @forkboy1965
Well, I am of two minds on this. I like using mechanical pencils when I am writing, doing calculations, etc. Anything where I want my writing instrument to be consistent and reliable. I don’t want to have to think about it. However, when sketching, good old carbon filled wooden dowels are the best. As Susan Miller says, you need that ability to create different tones and thickness of lines.
Sissies?!
Why if I weren’t so enamored with my wife’s Louis Vuitton purse right now I’d slap you silly Susan!