On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org> wrote: > On Friday 25 June 2010 14:23:19 Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: >> > well, we seemed have almost reached a consensus - now all we need to >> > decide is >> > the pros and cons of pen versus pencil. >> >> I support pencil because, >> >> 1. It can be sharpened >> 2. It doesn't cause those splotches in your hand and dress like a pen >> 3. There is only one colour to choose - so no confusion between blue >> and black etc. >> 4. It is the simplest contraption in the world which consists of just >> two parts and no moving ones. >> 5. It has space-age glamour since the Russian cosmonauts used it >> to write during their space flights. >> > > anyway I suddenly remembered back in 1980s I had a pen and notebook and used > to write large amounts of pseudocode in it - I remember spending a week in a > farm with no electricity and writing enormous amounts of code. So I have > bought a nice notebook and a gel pen. I am too lazy to sharpen a pencil and > also sharpeners are not allowed in hand baggage on planes. So I am good to go.
Mechanical pencil? Point 1 is invalid since it's always sharp. 2 and 3 hold true. 4 is grossly violated. I'll get back to you on 5 after I contact my Russian comrades. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
