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. > I sharpen a pencil around 5 times at least a week - for my kid in UKG. I guess that makes me attached more to pencils... Yeah, sharpeners and pencils are potential terrorist tools in flights. I wonder if it is also banned in space flights. There are these "pen-pencil" type contraptions where you push many "pencil-heads" one after another and finally one sticks out at the other end. They are pretty cool and no potential threat to life from sharpeners. I wonder if they are still sold in stores... -- > Regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Associate > NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
