Notes

If nothing else, it looks neat.

I've recently taken to carrying a small notebook to capture my transient thoughts and observations throughout the day. I find I am inspired to write many times during the day, and end up forgetting what it was I was inpired by - which in turn makes me rather apathetic: knowing I had a good idea and now have lost it forever.

And so I've turned to what humans have turned to as a memory aid for thousands of years: the decidedly low-tech pencil and paper. It seems to be working great.

If nothing else, it looks neat.

Posted in Thoughts on Wednesday, 25 September, 2002 (digg this)

Comments

kenn wrote:

i don't know about anyone else, but i think a mechanical pencil is pretty high-tech as far as writing implements go. sure, its not a laptop or PDA, but it does have springs and buttons and latches and mechanisms. where's a ball-point pen? or graphite stick? or regular pencil?

Posted on September 26, 2002 4:53 PM

Logan wrote:

Ken has a point, simplicity isn't always as simple as it seems. Jeez say that 5 times fast.

Posted on September 26, 2002 5:54 PM

Tyler wrote:

The regular pencil dulls, and I never seem to have a pencil sharpener handy, which in turn eventually causes me to stop writing. I thought the mechanical pencil would do the trick.

And what about ball-point pens, are you calling those simple machines??

Posted on September 26, 2002 6:04 PM