Loyal reader and friend, Chris P., is listing a couple pens for sale on Ebay and I wanted to share them. Chris is a retired lettering artist and an italic nib fan so these are a couple sweet pens with some interesting heritage. There is a Parker Falcon with a Parker#94 medium italic nib from…
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Pens on TechCrunch
I was contacted a couple of weeks ago to comment on the popularity of pen projects on Kickstarter, particularly topical since the latest Karas Kustoms project has been super-successful.. I never heard anything back so I wasn’t sure if the writer followed through with the piece but this morning, the article popped up and I…
Three Years of The Well-Appointed Desk
Today is the third anniversary of The Well-Appointed Desk. In that time, I’ve posted over 1800 times, reviewed dozens of pens, notebooks and other office supplies, given away lots of goodies and made tons of new friends. I am amazed that I find new things to talk about every day! To celebrate, I am going…
Still Searching for a Google Reader Replacement
There’s only a couple of weeks left before Google turns off Reader for good and I’ve yet to make a decision about what service I will use as a replacement. There is a site listing the most popular alternatives as mentioned by hashtag on Twitter called ReplaceReader. Feedly is topping the list at present but…
News from the Pen World
…. this just in…. TWSBI released their new notebooks… three sizes available in lined, grid and blank….STOP New ink from Noodlers called Blue Nose Bear… blue with fluorescent, black-light reactive tones…STOP in other news… The Pen Addict now has a Patter chat room on App.net… Yahoo bought Tumblr and updated Flickr on the same day!……
Apologies for Technical Difficulties
Over the last 48 hours, I’ve had a few glitches in the finely oiled machine that is The Well-Appointed Desk. On Sunday night, our power went out at 9pm and was not restored until 11am Monday, by which point I was already at work. So… I was unable to get a new post up…
Fountain Pen Exhibit Prep
On Friday, I helped two of my co-workers set up a display in our gallery area of fountain pens. I didn’t have nearly as many to add to the collection as they did but it was fun to see all the pens and touch them. There are vintage hard rubber pens, a TON of Esterbrooks,…