@Boris_yo You'd be completely wrong then. :)

I quite often play games where I'm at a distinct disadvantage due to latency and I still come out on top. :)

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should be moved to Meta

@tapped-out: VTMed, and pinged the mod in question via meta ;p

"mod in question"? o.o

@tapped-out: the answer was deleted by a mod ;p

so I pinged him so he can answer ;p

ah okay

@jou the local department stores actually have a decent selection of pens

Also, 25 percent off today :p

huh.local stationery store, too

got two, $3 each

takes a short cartridge, it looks like

ooh

nice

any markings?

markings?

I mean, what kinda pen? ;p

they're smiggle branded

model, brand, stuff on the nib

weird, cause most of their stationery is for kids

like this?

smiggle.com.au/shop/en/smiggle/large-fountain-pen

ya

$7vpens at a newsagent

o0

thats kinda costy

oh god

the comments

?

says iridium on the nib

for the pen

ooh, all fancy like ;p

(they use that for fountain pen tips cause it dosen't wear out easily - none of my cheapies are labelled as such tho)

I can't see comments on mobile

"this pen is so good it workd really well unlike other pens when it stops working and then works when you first push the little ink bottle into the spike it takes a little while till works but it does work"

fountain pen network said fine nib

thats so what you'd expect a teenage girl to write

wat

well, it's smiggle

lol

hrm

some places have watermans, some have quink

I forgot the difference :p

lol

you're having better luck than I did

hmm

Thats interesting

There was a double murder in singapore, and one of the victims was dragged behind a car for quite a distance

the main suspect is a cop

hmm

my pen should reach comgateway ~the 15th

o.o

Also, newsagents carry the most random selection

ooooh

I forgot this shopping centre existed

scratches head

I just walked in, up an escalator, and back out the same place I went in

wut

o0

sounds like antichamber!

no luck with the needles

darn

o.o

there's another smiggle shop here...

newsagent. $12 sheaffer. but it's a calligraphy nib

gawd. I barely remember those ;p

random Apple store outta nowhere

fark

so many black bottles

pick it up. it's paint.

lol

Lots of people buy paint

less people buy ink....

yanno

I just realised I really ought to pay a visit to the place I got my vpens from ;p

well the mall

its mostly textbooks and stuff like that, but there may be a few oldskool stationary shops left

urgh department stores inside shopping centres

there's an restaurant inside

Also, their lamy safaris are $50

they did have a sample one. feels nice.

The safari is the plastic varient of what I'm getting ;p

Still getting a Visionaire?

> The Goulet Pen Company give 5-10% off for purchases greater than 8? and if you type FPN into their discount field you will get another 5% off.

@MichaelFrank: asked my brother to help me order it

@Bob: oops

@JourneymanGeek Cool, I'm gonna order one in a week or so. :)

I need to go trawl/proper-lurk FPN more

@MichaelFrank: not sure if he'll remember ;p

@MichaelFrank I might sometime. Still, it's $47 (incl shipping).

Not much for a FP, but it is a lot for someone who just started :P

I wonder what ink Smiggle uses.

@Bob I like pens. :P

@MichaelFrank: I'm kinda amused about that ;p

I mean, this is a chatroom of computer geeks

fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/…

....

I THINK they have a store in the same building daiso is in

> sold in popular stationery chain in Singapore called Smiggles

O.O

Singapore is like fountain pen central :P

lol

They had some pink pens, too. I just grabbed two black ones.

lol

they have one at my usual mall

As for that comment you commented on...

I don't ever recall seeing it before

yea, Smiggle is very much the territory of kids and teenaged girls

scented erasers and all

lol

Still, a $3 fountain pen is a fountain pen... except when it's not.

apparently its a dollar here

@JourneymanGeek I discovered to many stores today.

@JourneymanGeek Oh ffs...

@Bob: this is why hobbies are good ;p

They come from Australia and they're still cheaper overseas?

!@#$$

"This is absolutely the cheapest fountain pen that I have bought – even cheaper than the Pilot V pen and the Hero pen. Each Smiggle fountain pen cost a princely sum of 1 dollar in my local currency (that is less than 1 US dollar). On the Smiggle website, it is listed as 1 Aussie dollar. I don’t think you will quibble with 1 dollar in whichever currency."

1 AUD = 1.14 SGD, too.

@JourneymanGeek Oh. Perhaps that was some time ago, then.

nope

jan this year

o.O

is kinda amused

and I probably need to go raid the place next time I'm in the area ;p

So, apparently smoother than a Preppy

I think its the feed

sounds remarkably similar to the one the vpen uses

Except it's a cartridge pen.

So, no wick there?

> The pen comes with a single standard international ink cartridge.

looks like a short one... but I dunno what the actual sizes are, so bleh

Maybe I'm just overestimating the size of the cartridges?

"I have an Indian pen made by Flair which has the same nib and feed. Its a nice writer. Its feed is unusual in that there is a felt insert between the nib and feed. Looking at your shot of the nib, it seems there is a similar small piece between the tipping material and the feed on the underside if the nib. "

lol

I have no clue what's standard ._.

perhaps eyedropper one of them

though I would need to find some way of stopping leaks

I'd test it with water first ;p

in case

hrm

I'm suddenly wondering if food dye would make good ink

@JourneymanGeek huh. so, it might accept all kinds of ink? :P

fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/…

surprising number of Singaporeans and Australians on there.

lol

singaporeans have... interesting hobbies ;p

only problem I can see is that this'll probably wash right out with water

lol

yup

but a lot of ink does

hmm

refilling printers with food dye...

> Wait until you see my next project: refilling inkjet printer cartridges with food dye, or alternately Noodler's Legal Lapis. I've heard it works, and I think it'd be pretty cool to print with Noodler's bulletproof ink. :D

lol

I even know where to get food dye in bulk ;p

@JourneymanGeek hm. synced reading? :P

lol

PVC tape o.O

whatever happened to hot glue?

@Boris_yo nuke and reinstall

@Bob I think what you say assumes Windows reinstall?

@Boris_yo yes, reinstall windows

there is no way to guarantee all user information is removed without a full drive wipe

What if I don't want to thoroughly get rid of information? To be precise, the new owner is close relative of current owner so I don't think I need to do nuking.

Here is the message I am getting:

delete old user, create new one, delete old profile, hope there's nothing left anywhere else

try not pirating

@JourneymanGeek there is a little bit of felt sticking out

interesting.

@Bob User and profile are different things?

@Boris_yo deleting a user does not delete the profile folder unless you specifically tel lit to

looks like it's a wick to the end of the cartridge

not sure if it's normal

@Bob: not very, as far as I can tell

my platinum has a plastic half circle like a whisle poking out

want some photos? :P

@JourneymanGeek

ok, ink goes in now

oh, this si almost definitely a short international

I think the pen is long enough to accept a long one, though

yup, that bit of white in the first picture soaks up the ink

they apparently used to have 'mini' ones: fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/…

aww

wow. that's pretty nice

took abit to prime it, though

squeezed nk into the front section D:

@JourneymanGeek ?

yeah, it seems to be

I need to do a proper test of the platinum ;p

its dryer than either of those

also, much easie rto refill than the vpen

I mightjust chuck some printer ink in to see

lol

it is designed for that XD

entirely unlike the vpen

looks pretty easy to eyedropper, too

as long as there arn't any big holes in the barrel... ;p

ow.

it also hurts when you accidentally stab yourself

...

yea, I'm somewhat clumsy at tims

I might go there tomorrow and pick up a couple more

There was a urban legend (by which I mean I've never actually seen this guy) that the most notorious gangster in my high school stabbed someone in the ear with a caligraphy pen ;p

kinda like pringles, eh? ;p

today's results: cheap pen, knowledge of places that sell ink

@JourneymanGeek wut

incidentally, calligraphy pens everywhere

;p

even calligraphy fountain pens

yup

not many plain fountain pens :(

caligraphy pens are fountain pens ;p

they just come with a variety of changable nibs

@JourneymanGeek no, felt tip

ooh

thats odd

the caligraphy pens I remember had like, half a dozen nibs, and used a cartridge

this ink is far more water-resistant than the vpen

VERY much like artsparx.com/storegraphix_home.asp

lol

I actually have one of the felt-tip calligraphy pens here somewhere

brb

@Mokubai: welcome to pen access ;p

ahh

my mom used to use something similar for jewellery design

Ah guys? This laptop I am working on has Vista installation integrated on hard drive. It was later upgraded to Windows 7. What I need to know is how to load Vista install and format everything to install it.

Something like recovery and install console.

Vista came originally on this laptop, of course with CD-KEY.

is the ink feed on the platinum

and the nibs

@Boris_yo: get a installer disk ? ;p

hmm

or recovery partition might still be vista

assuming you kept it/can access it

@JourneymanGeek dat focus :P

lol

the platinum looks thinner

yeah

couldn't quite get it right

japanese medium for sure ;p

@JourneymanGeek yea, O took mine with the phone camera further back but zoomed in

DSLR technique did not really work

stupd autofocus

it got close to good focus, then decided to give up and snap back to worst

I would do it manually, but... eff the autofocus that can't be turned off

lol

did it with 2 more pens (normal gel pens) and one ran out of ink partway

@JourneymanGeek O.O

hm.

lol

I considered buying better paper.

but it's literally 45 times more expensive

@Bob: I'm using recycled printing paper for this for now ;p

o0

@JourneymanGeek standard copy paper here

yeah

same ;p

Its actually pretty good (and consistant)

hm

funnily enough, we bought this box discounted

but the brand (WC Penfold) is actually associated with ne of the shops that sells fountain pens o.O

lol

I need to get out more XD

I just remembered that there's a pretty interesting stationary shop in the other computer mall

(I buy my paper from them, they're cheap, and its near where my school used to be)

ya, my handwriting is shit

lol

mine isn't all that great either ;p

also, you mangled the sentence :P

no "s" in it

the round stic was last used over half a year ago

also, it had a habit of forming a large ink bubble on the tip during heavy use

when I tried it, a chunk of dried ink broke off O.O

@JourneymanGeek No discs. Just integrated recovery Vista partition. Don't know how to load it up because Windows 7 loads.

hmm

what make of laptop?

there's sometimes a tool to get the recovery partition to boot

@JourneymanGeek or, from the bios menu

I just hit escape during boot for a menu to come up

@Bob: that usually picks the disk tho?

@JourneymanGeek Toshiba Satellite

@JourneymanGeek no, it was aHP menu

not my screenshot photo

ooh

en.kioskea.net/forum/…

try this?

@Boris_yo: earlier versions often does mean vista

@Bob I see F11 system recovery on screenshot but this option is not found in my case.

@Boris_yo that's for HP

took at the boot screen

it'll tell you the button somewhere

or, search for the manual

F2 is pretty standard for BIOS

F12 for boot (disk) menu

HP has a special menu wit hEsc

Will try link that Journeyman gave me.

urk

I have pens now

I can buy ink now

But it's going to be two weeks before the syringes/pipettes are shipped -_-

starting to consider a straw...

lol

maybe an eyedropper?

@JourneymanGeek but then I'd have to convert the pen

and get something to seal it with

and I don't have eyedrppers

that's what the pipette is for

I mean, to do what you wanted to do with the syringe ;p

my mom uses these single use ones which would, in theory, work perfectly

@JourneymanGeek not accurate enough

I guess

hm, I wonder where my pipette filler went

Do you know where can I get Vista setup ISO?

I know my pipette broke

@Boris_yo: Unlike 7 or 8, there's no real legit download I know of

@JourneymanGeek want one?

I'll have a hundred in a few weeks :P

@Bob: I mean a glass one ;p

I don't have CD to burn to but I have USB Disk On Key. Maybe I can somehow burn setup ISO to there?

I probably have a plastic one somewhere too

and a burette

@JourneymanGeek I know that Windows XP, Windows Vista ISOs can be downloaded from HTTP online. If I recall, it is on Lifehacker.

considering a converter: ebay.com.au/itm/…

but no guarantee it'll fit :(