Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo Hmm, well, that makes you unique. I've never run into anyone that used iron gall ink in a fountain pen.

Why would you? The performance of good fountain pen ink is vastly superior to iron gall. If you want permanence, use Noodlers cellulose-reactive bulletproof ink. You can't get more permanent than that and it doesn't corrode the paper like iron gall does.

@freemo Well, there's your problem. That's considered an absolute no-no with FPs. You can only use inks made with dyes like aniline, and inks carefully balanced for proper surface tension, pH, and that contain an effective biocide. Fountain pens are very picky about ink and its characteristics.

Of course, nothing can stop you from trying but there's your problem.

Why not buy a nice set of Speedballs? They're cheap, fun to use, and work great. Also glass dip pens are cool and work pretty well too but not so much for calligraphy where you want a stub nib. Speedball also has some cool nibs for drawing wide lines. There's a reason that all cartoonists and manga artists use them.

@freemo Rusting? Hmm. No. I don't think I've ever encountered rusting with any nib in 60 years. (One of my sub-hobbies is restoring school pens from the 1950s)

All the Jinhao nibs I have are stainless steel or gold plated stainless.

There are corrosive inks like iron gall type inks that you should never even get near a fountain pen. Nor should you use any ink with pigment like India ink. Dip pens only for such inks. I have a set of Speedballs I use for India type ink and calligraphy. (Speaking of India ink, I greatly prefer Japanese Sumi ink over India ink.)

I'm puzzled. I've never seen rust on a fountain pen.

@TruthSandwich Note that I have not bought one. Lol.

I start every morning with a triple shot of espresso, fresh ground coffee, steam under pressure. I'm not a morning person so I want that first cup to kick my ass, and it does. But that makes me a bit biased when it comes to flavor. OTOH, the coffee that comes out of the Bunn maker at the restaurant is fine and good for ordinary coffee.

But the Keurig? No. Seems to me it's just a gadget with levers and blinking lights that all the Gen X'ers have to have. Kind of like an iPhone.

Uh oh, now I'm going to get flamed.

@PKMKII So it's not just me being picky. Good. Lol.

I've been very happy with the Jinhao fountain pens I have in my pen collection. Working on them and with them I've collected some information that's useful to me and put it in a blog post.

https://shuttersparks.net/jinhao-fountain-pens/

#FountainPens #FP #FPs #Jinhao #nibs #feeds

@georgetakei Yeah, well, sex is kind of fundamental to life. Without it none of us would be here. Better get used to it.

I wonder what state they were in. In a number of states including New York and Utah it's legal for women to go topless, so I would assume breastfeeding is fine.

@bhawthorne Grumpy old man here too. "Prickly", I think I'll steal that one.

Have a day! (I won't presume to tell you what kind of day to have.)

I have several friends with Keurig coffee makers and we have one at the restaurant. The coffee is always weak and tasteless compared to drip brewed (Bunn). Even the "espresso" cartridges are equally weak -- weaker than ordinary coffee and nothing like the espresso I make at home. Is this just how it is or is there some trick to it? And why does everybody have one if it works so poorly? I'm puzzled.

#coffee #keurig #food

@gratefuldread Exactly.

@doomscroller 50 years? The consumers that need that coal won't be around that long.

@6G @CharlieKruse That would be "tool" not "to". A slip of the fingers. Hahaha.

@gratefuldread Yup, I knew this had to be true. Such a vast array of crimes were committed, I expect she has an overwhelming case. That's partly why it took so long to put together.

Now they have to defend. I wonder how long it will take one of Trump's lawyers to say to him, "Just plead out, man. You're fucked. Plead out and get a lighter sentence."

@6G @CharlieKruse No, no. I'm talking about the Tax Code. If we brought back the tax code we had in the 1950s, it would only take a few years for a big chunk of today's poor to become middle class and everyone moves up. Starting under Reagan in the 1980s, the tax code was turned upside down to burden the middle class and push wealth to the top. Today we have lots of poor, a small cadre of billionaires, and corporations that shelter trillions of dollars in overseas banks. That was not possible in the 1950s and 60s, the most prosperous era the U.S.A. has ever seen and ever will see unless the people force Congress to fix the tax code.

As Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin pointed out in the 1990s, the Tax Code is the government's most powerful to for social engineering.

@6G @CharlieKruse Not to mention that a big chunk of today's poor are the government's creation.

@kctipton In lieu of doing their jobs as leaders like fixing bridges and infrastructure, preparing for rising seas? You know, their actual job that they get paid for. Why do the people put up with this? Imagine paying a crew to repair your roof, they climb up there, but instead of fixing your roof they sit around discussing how they don't like human sexuality and want the species altered to suit their personal tastes.