Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged gadgets, reseña on July 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
There’s something just a bit rich about a middle-aged pencil-pusher like me choosing to open his junk mail and electric bill with a little sword.
But hey, we don’t get to do much hunting and gathering any more, so toss us a bone. A little bellicose letter-opening never turned anyone into a real-life axe-murderer.
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Our HP 1012 printer occupies a shelf at the geographical center of our home, wirelessly networked to four computers spread across our three stories.
It never fails us.
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In the age of email and voice mail, a hand-written note is perhaps more powerful than ever.
Crane & Co. delivers a classy, silver-on-white, engraved medium for saying ‘thank you’ that is just the thing for somebody who has done more than opened a door for you twice but less than buying you a new car.
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My work demands a lot of interpersonal contact, face-to-face, over-the-phone, and written. Recently I have moved the more intimate of these communications off the electronic impersonality of email and onto quality stationery. At the same time, I’ve bought two fountain pens, my first ever, combining this black Cross Century II with its silver-and-gold twin. One stays at the office and one by my writing desk here at home.
In the mix, I find that I’m discovering a new art form and means of personal expression. Always an illegible writer, the stationery and the fine pen slow me down just enough to realize that I actually *can* write. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.
My work demands a lot of interpersonal contact, face-to-face, over-the-phone, and written. Recently I have moved the more intimate of these communications off the electronic impersonality of email and onto quality stationery. At the same time, I’ve bought two fountain pens, my first ever, combining this polished chrome Cross Century II with its black-and-gold twin. One stays at the office and one by my writing desk here at home. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Among the constellation of golf magazines, Golf World is the one that isn’t straining to be a lifestyle magazine with golf thrown in. (more…)
Posted in my hometown, paterfamilias on July 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
‘Funny how different things look from up close.
Three years ago my family and I left a sixteen-year stint in Costa Rica, a place we loved and where we believed we’d one day die and be buried. Of all places, we came to Indianapolis, a town with a reputation for dullness placed smack in the middle of the nation’s Heartland. We have no Midwestern roots and so accepted by default the conventional wisdom that we were coming to a bland place for the sake of a great job.
How wrong we were! (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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Golf Digest is the big daddy of a well-populated family of golf publications. It’s self-styled tag line–‘The #1 Golf Publication’–is well-earned. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 30, 2007| 1 Comment »
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When I left a country and an institution I’d served for sixteen years, I received from fellow pencil-head Kelly Liebengood the Ideal Personal Library Embosser. I believe it may have been the nicest gift I’ve ever received and perhaps the highwater mark of Mr Liebengood’s unenviable life. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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This attractive, light-to-middle-weight stationery features colors in the beige range. As the product name suggests, light map-and-globe graphics create a watermark-like effect at a very good price. (more…)
Canter Bridge 