{"id":1970,"date":"2005-02-27T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2008-06-21T09:27:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:27:27","slug":"pencils-pencils-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/pencils-pencils-pencils\/","title":{"rendered":"pencils, pencils, PENCILS!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I bought a lot of pencils this week. There&#8217;s nothing quite able to cure that tactile jones than writing with a blade-sharpened wooden pencil on good paper. Let me see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 Canadiana Naturals bare wood pencils (which, with irony almost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Morissettian+Irony\">morissettian<\/a>, are made in the USA).<\/li>\n<li>2 Canadiana red marking pencils<\/li>\n<li>2 Faber Castell 9000 pencils. These are almost worth the 5\u00c3\u2014 premium over Canadianas, as they don&#8217;t have those semi-useless erasers on the end that destroy the pencil&#8217;s balance.<\/li>\n<li>a Staedtler 0.9mm mechanical pencil (which I&#8217;m never going to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinel.com\/\">Opinel<\/a> on, never fear).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So all I need now is a couple of non-photo blues and a bible highlighter or two, and I am the king of pencils!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of the &#8220;world&#8217;s biggest pencils&#8221; that were the coolest things an 8-year-old could have in a Scottish primary school. Brought back from exotic holiday locations, they were enough to win playground approval for a few days by letting your friends have a shot. I always wanted one of these 40cm \u00c3\u00bcberpencils, but it didn&#8217;t happen then.<\/p>\n<p>When I did get one, it was three years later, and the cachet was gone. To compound the disappointment, the pencil I got depicted the staid provincial crests of Belgium on a cream-of-chicken-soup\u00e2\u20ac\u201ccoloured background. To write with it was to be a hamfisted infant again; it looped and swayed against my will. Its lead was narrow and the wood was tough, resisting all sharpening. There was no &#8220;sharkener&#8221; (as sharpeners were pronounced in my primary school) that would point the thing. It was soon consigned to the back of the cupboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I bought a lot of pencils this week. There&#8217;s nothing quite able to cure that tactile jones than writing with a blade-sharpened wooden pencil on good paper. Let me see: 10 Canadiana Naturals bare wood pencils (which, with irony almost morissettian, are made in the USA). 2 Canadiana red marking pencils 2 Faber Castell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1298,1294],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-fail","tag-pencil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-vM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}