Omg they could print money if they wanted to what the heck.

"Not actually bad at math" shouldn't be a big deal. A lot of people finally get the hang of things over time, once they figure out what the hangup was or get enough practice in.

But no, suddenly I was worth talking to. It's WEIRD.

I'm not bad at math btw, I'm goddamn BLIND and that matters a lot less in every other class. That equation the teacher is going over on the board? Squiggle soup. So I'm left teaching it to myself later from the book which was enlarged for me using a ditto machine.

There are def deeper pockets than mine, but I have paid more than lots of people think is sensible for these things. And yeah I am very happy with what I have but i cannot swear I'm done.

I can't narrow it down so you get categories for some of these.

1. Shore birds that steal your fries
2. Rays
3. Every giant, fuckoff glow in the dark water balloon they find in the bottom of the ocean.
4. Humpbacks
5. Humboldt squids

And they keep portfolios of pictures so you choose what kind of pictures you want... but when I heard they were mentioned in there, I realized they were also portfolios of children.

Exactly. I've never crossed that price threshold and it would have to be REALLY special to do so, because that is not my financial situation. My Jinhao is nice enough, a VP is probably not for me. My grip is wrong for it, which the dupe helped me learn.

The covid levels have taken a turn for the shocking in the lower midwest. Outside there, it's not as bad. But I still wouldn't want it.

I mean Benu makes their own sections. The nibs and feeds are schmidt. Tho, I suspect that Benu tunes the nibs on the way out the door because I've never even heard of a dud, which statistically should really happen at some point. But with schmidt and benu doing overlapping QC, maybe not.

Huh. OK maybe that was wrong then. I wasn't able to find out from the internet but the internet is broken.

Not the sections, but the nib and feeds. I love schmidt. It's benu that led me to this knowledge, but the Schmidt nib on my Kakimori frost is also fabulous.

I've got a 37 vacumatic that works fine and I like it, but I just like having a variety of options available. And converters suit me because I change ink colors often.

When companies go into trademark war or whatever, they just come out of it looking petty.

I disagree with your assessment because the main thing Benu is doing is shaping the barrels differently, in ways that are extremely comfortable for my hypermobile fingers. Yeah they're also beautiful and sparkly, but it's not JUST that.

I am also not wholly sold on those. The filling system is the part that will eventually break so it's nice you can just pop it out if its a converter.