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Another day, another edited ink swatch post. I'm taking my sweet time so it doesn't feel so much like "work".
https://jimp.ink/2025/02/05/swatch-banmi-neutron-90-bp
Again, this one that had different content, so I rearranged things a little, but I like how it came out.
(This is also keeping me busy enjoying things I already have, so I'm not buying more stuff. Yet.)
#FountainPens #FountainPenInk
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This grouped set of weather stamps is smaller than I expected, but it's perfectly sized. It fits into one of the larger pen loops in my folio. You just uncap it, line up the one you want, and press it.
At first I was confused about why there was a ghost, but I figured I'd get some use of it around fall. After some searching, it's most likely a teru teru bōzu so basically means "it's been raining for so long I am trying to summon sunshine", which I completely understand.
I put blotting paper behind notebook pages to catch bleed-through, as bookmarks, and protection so I don't have to worry about closing notebooks before the ink is 100% dry.
I usually use sheets of Herbin blotting paper, but its size, 120x190mm, is not ideal in notebooks. However, it can be cut into strips that exactly fit my matching blotter handle.
I wanted sheets a bit larger, so I ordered two different kinds that were labeled A5: JetPens Kanso and Sakae.
(1/2)
A bit on the fence with this new TWSBI Eco variant. It's much lighter than I'd prefer, but it's called Fluorite so maybe it's also fluorescent like its namesake? Currently at about a 70/30 split with 70% being pass. Time will tell.
I got these bottle-shaped stamps to make ink swatch cards. The shop didn't label them (likely for copyright/trademark reasons), so it's a bit of a guessing game for ones I don't recognize. Problem is I can't recall why I bought the sheet labeled "D" as I have none of those inks, but maybe I got it because they also work as good generic bottles?
I tried labeling the ones I recognize or found searching. Anyone know the "?" ones I couldn't definitively ID?
All this rain does seem to be having at least one positive effect
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@LexPendragon@QuarteredCircle.net It's missing "bespoke" and "fair trade" in there somewhere.
Akkerman Out of the Blue isn't getting along with the EF Pilot VP I have it in. It's not drying out, but it's not flowing well. It skips a lot and often hard starts. Asa-gao never misbehaved in the same pen before I swapped to this ink.
Out of the Blue is not a high sheening ink but it does have a medium amount of sheen, which has gummed up pens for me before.
I ran the nib under water and cleaned it off well and it behaved while I was using it for notes today at least.
I feel like people here would appreciate this door I encountered today. I can't fully alt text it right this moment as I'm at a concert venue with limited time, but I'll try to fill more in later. Do yourself a favor and zoom in and read some of the writing and stickers.
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@timixretroplays@digipres.club @frenshape@beige.party I have some heat shrink cartridges for my Brother label printer. They're neat, but I wish they could shrink more. Like for Ethernet you have to put them on before you put the end on, not after.
I went to use my Faber-Castell Essentio and it was dry. Only a littlle droplet of ink in the converter. I filled it on Dec 17th, so it definitely didn't make it 4 months. But I thought I just used it a couple weeks ago and it was fine. So maybe it's good for ~3 months max. Not a great seal. I'll add it to the case of pens that will be fine if I intend to use them a lot over a short term.
Refilled clicky pens that were out of ink. Not dried up, just empty or nearly so.
A couple things I noticed:
The super light Topaz writing I had on my previous fill must have been from water in the feed/nib. This refill is more consistent with how it had been writing. Same with Ukikusa.
The light angle here makes the sheen of Momiji on Midori MD paper really shine.
Not pictured, but the paper in my hobby log is still a bit disappointing, none of these look as nice there.
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@toga I haven't seen any regular notebooks, but they do have "Journals" which are bound like more traditional notebooks but claim to be using the Mnemosyne paper, though they are also much thicker and more expensive. They don't appear to be dated or formatted like journals, the pages are just lined or dot grid depending on which you buy.
I almost got one to try for my hobby log since I know I really like my other Mnemosyne spiral bound notebooks, but they're a bit expensive to try on a whim.
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I think I've settled on just using a dot grid Tomoe River S Kanso notebook. I have a 160-sheet blank one completely unused sitting on the shelf. I don't really need numbered pages, it was just nice in theory. I bought a date stamper but I'm not sure if I'll use it.
So not only is the paper much better, it's also very UV friendly.
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@stylus I'm also eagerly awaiting reviews. I didn't want to be an early adopter this time, since I know there are usually growing pains and they refine the process and kits for things as they go. I'll likely wait and pick one up later this year once it gets smoothed out a bit.
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@ojensen@hachyderm.io @storkk@kolektiva.social I liked having it sniff remote codes for random things I have around and replaying them. Radio and IR.
It's how I confirmed that two of my IR remotes at my desk used conflicting codes (USB and HDMI switches)
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@clew@ecoevo.social That's an option, though I'm not sure I'd want to go that far.
I could also probably buy loose leaf sheets of what I want, run the pages through a laser printer with the template I want, and then bind them.
But all of that is still a lot more effort than I'd like to put into it, even in batches.
I'd much rather find something that's "good enough" rather than DIY to that extent.
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@TimmyMac I prefer converters since I can fill them as much or as little as needed and they're usually easy to clean. You can see the ink level clearly, and less messy than syringe filling. More options than cartridges.
I figured you had a Pilot Metropolitain based on that alone, and I see you confirmed that already.
The CON-40 is awful, but there are other options that fit the MR.
https://masto.ai/@jimp/115725173404088760
https://penfount.ink/alternatives-con-40/
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@indi It's possible they aren't seated fully or aren't aligned quite right.
It's also possible there is still some ink stuck between the tines of the nib, might need to drag the space between the tines with some brass sheets or similar.
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@JulesJones@mendeddrum.org I also am not collecting the Maki-e Preppies. There's only been one I really liked from the last two sets and I got those and stopped. Though a couple vendors did sell them as sets.
I also haven't added my latest set of Sharks to my sheet or FPC yet because there are 12 of them and it's more work than I feel like taking on at the moment, so they're just in limbo.
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@ringods@hachyderm.io @kde@floss.social Allegedly it will be the default in Firefox 149, so probably not worth worrying about globally at the moment.
There is a reply elsewhere in this thread where someone noted a system-wide way to do it on Debian-based installs.
https://udongein.xyz/objects/963b9036-68c2-48b6-91fb-2a15b30f2a2f
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz IIRC the environment variable way does still work, too, if that's your preference. But between the custom system default and Firefox finally changing the factory default in 149 it will hopefully be a moot point soon.
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It's frustrating sometimes because it does work properly on Mint w/Cinnamon; With the default value of 2 it uses Cinnamon's file picker.
But I've had the same issue on FreeBSD and other Linux distros using KDE.
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@Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social And just when they think they're over that, they want to bookmark a web site and hit the X to mark the spot.
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I know I could just take any good notebook I have and use it, but I'd rather not have to draw the lines, add the numbers, and so on myself. Lowering the effort involved means I'm more likely to keep up with it.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social They're just doing their job of responding to all the ICMP ECHO requests. They're born for that.
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@paradoxmo@penfount.social That is a really nice color (and shading), but I am a sucker for blues. (And I really enjoy Ama-iro and Kon-peki)
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@indi How far did you disassemble it?
The nib and feed are friction fit into the section and will pull (straight out, don't twist!) for the most thorough cleaning.
Soaking or using an ultrasonic cleaner are good, pen flush can help, but sometimes nothing beats pulling the nib and feed.
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@JeGr@chaos.social Some Jekyll themes have additional features/syntax/tags but mostly the difference is Jekyll uses some YAML front matter for its metadata like the title, dates, categories/tags and such.
Joplin has an "export MD + front matter" option but I haven't tried it so I'm not sure if the format is identical.
The notes are kept in a database but the content is all Markdown. When it syncs data between instances it is a bunch of .md files, though, but that's more of an intermediate step.
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@JeGr@chaos.social Joplin is all Markdown, and can link between notes. There is an export to HTML feature in Joplin, but I've not tried it. Most likely something like Pandoc could be fed the markdown files and output HTML, too.
I just keep all my stuff in Joplin and sync it around these days. My public sites are Jekyll or Sphinx, which are close enough to copy between if I want to do public content, but I'm not sure about automating that in any way.