9 Responses to “Antimicrobial Pencils”

1. Liam on July 26th, 2011 3:25 pm

   Ok, I’ll bite. Do microbes live on pencils and thus sharpening them shaves them over to die a woody, graphite death?

2. Maire on July 26th, 2011 4:16 pm

   Do people still use these crank pencil sharpeners? I suppose there are some old-school people who prefer them. I rarely use pencils, but when I need to sharpen one, I like the technology of the electric kind.

3. mark on July 26th, 2011 6:18 pm

   @ Maire – I suppose I must be old-school, but nothing works as well as the crank pencil sharpener. There is no better technology.

4. Liam on July 26th, 2011 8:26 pm

   @ Maire + Mark,

   This is a conversation we’ve had before on this fair blog:

   http://www.chickenmonkeydog.com/good-old-fashioned-technology/

5. Liam on July 26th, 2011 8:26 pm

   And I’m with Mark on this one!

6. forkboy1965 on July 30th, 2011 3:18 pm

   Mechanical pencil.

   That’s it.

   Mechanical pencil.

7. Susan Miller on July 30th, 2011 7:32 pm

   Mechanical pencils are for sissies. You can’t push down on the paper without breaking the tip. Proper pencils, with thick lead, well-sharpened (with a mechanical sharpener – or even, in a pinch, an electronic sharpener) are the only way to write a proper emphatic missive.

8. Conall on August 1st, 2011 8:58 am

   @Susan Miller @forkboy1965

   Well, I am of two minds on this. I like using mechanical pencils when I am writing, doing calculations, etc. Anything where I want my writing instrument to be consistent and reliable. I don’t want to have to think about it. However, when sketching, good old carbon filled wooden dowels are the best. As Susan Miller says, you need that ability to create different tones and thickness of lines.

9. forkboy1965 on August 1st, 2011 11:46 am

   Sissies?!

   Why if I weren’t so enamored with my wife’s Louis Vuitton purse right now I’d slap you silly Susan!

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