As mentioned in my Twitter, I've been converting Zebra F-701 pens to mechanical pencils. While picking up pens and pencils to destroy at Office Depot, I also picked up a set of Prismacolor pens which I'll (eventually) be testing against my Microns. I'm hoping that they'll out-perform the slightly cheaper Microns, but if all else fails, they look cooler.

I also got a Pentech Radius, using "Liquaphite," some kind of liquid graphite. I figure, it's only a couple of bucks, what the hell. This is also what I thought when I tried to smudge the lines with a stump, as it just erased the lines. The lines erase surprisingly clean with an actual eraser, but look like the light lines made by a cheap ballpoint pen. Incidentally, it writes exactly like a cheap ballpoint pen. The kind of POS pen you see with some company's logo on it. The only good thing I can say about this pencil is that the lines are pretty resistant to smudging by skin, so if you don't mind applying an obscene amount of pressure while writing, it would be good for taking notes or something, I guess. And it looks pretty snazzy.

And this concludes the writing instrument nerd manifesto. Tune in tomorrow for something that's of interest to the other 99.999999999% of humanity.