"Jack of all trades, master of none" is a quote that has been on my mind for the past few weeks. Unfortunately, not much is known about the original speaker, Geffray Mynshul. It comes from his book "Essays and Characters of a Prison" released in, get
I have been pondering a lot on what I want to do with this blog. To be frank, I am completely burnt out on just reviewing pens and pencils. I feel like I don't have some sort of new revolutionary perspectives that add anything to the space, which
Despite its many criticisms, I am a fan of brutalist architecture. I am particularly fond of the Soviet-Era's use of raw concrete and jagged angles that provided a sort of physical manifestation of the world at that time. There are only two stationary items I have ever seen
I recently updated my resume with some new projects I have been working on. I realized they were all written in Python. This was mainly out of necessity for the nature of the project as they were on tight time constraints and Python is fundamentally a rapid development language. As
Even though the bulk of my blog centers around mechanical pencils, I have been cheating. I've been writing with pen a lot more lately as I find they are better for taking sporadic notes and writing for long periods of time. Also, it's nice to change
After a long grueling semester, I am finally done with my sophomore year of college. I took several interesting classes and several that were not so interesting. I want to talk about the strategies I have found that help me learn best,, and hopefully this will help someone in a
As anyone reading this knows, I love stationary. Based on that, what event would be right up my alley? If you guessed "The Chicago Stationary Fest," you would be correct! Around a month ago I went to this festival. While there were some hiccups along the way, overall
If you are reading this, you probably just read my LAMY Safari review. If not, go check that out first since it covers most everything about this pen. There are not that many differences between the AL-Star and the Safari. The main one, though, is that the AL-Star is made
Happy New Year! I hope you have been enjoying the holidays. As is typical, the new year has brought forth an urge to write, and here I am. I've been snowed in for the past few days so I have had some time to compile a few reviews
Introduction To save myself the trouble, see the first few lines of my last several posts for the "sorry for not writing" stuff. Just getting that out of the way. My third semester of college is well underway, and I have been swamped. Regardless, I thought it would
This post contains an Amazon Affiliate link. As an amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Intro Greetings! This is my first post on my new website. I have been working on getting everything setup and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I hope you enjoy!
The Pentel Smash is a very iconic pencil in the collector world. With loads of colors, most being limited editions (the color I have is a limited run, known as the Katakana Silver/Sky Blue model), the Smash's reputation precedes it. It is pretty bleak in terms of