What's Your Most Recent Addition To The Flock? 2016

[Christopher Godfrey]

I am going to be somewhat contentious for a moment and wonder if I am completely wrong about this (I wonder if Wim is reading this thread?): when someone posts photos (several) and then another person wishes to refer to those photos, they tend to "copy and paste", right? Sometimes, as above, two different posters have copied and pasted the identical pictures. Does this not load our memory like mad? It strikes me as wasteful of memory and of effort in wading through it all.

 

Could posters not simply make a token referral, somehow? Perhaps a <partial> "cut and paste"?

 

Now if people tell me this is a minor issue and hardly wasteful and that there is way more memory available than we shall ever need, then I apologize; but I am very curious...

 

Do other members see what I am driving at? Anyone agree with me, even? (Perhaps this should have been posted in another forum?)

Edited May 15, 2016 by Christopher Godfrey

[Dickkooty2]

 

Do other members see what I am driving at? Anyone agree with me, even? (Perhaps this should have been posted in another forum?)

I agree absolutely. Not only is it a waste of memory, it is an annoyance to me as the reader.

 

That Dick In Hood River.

[Andreas Weber]

I am going to be somewhat contentious for a moment and wonder if I am completely wrong about this (I wonder if Wim is reading this thread?): when someone posts photos (several) and then another person wishes to refer to those photos, they tend to "copy and paste", right? Sometimes, as above, two different posters have copied and pasted the identical pictures. Does this not load our memory like mad? It strikes me as wasteful of memory and of effort in wading through it all.

 

Could posters not simply make a token referral, somehow? Perhaps a <partial> "cut and paste"?

 

You can upload less than 2 MB of files to FPN's servers, so anything else (like the photos in my posts above) has to be hosted elsewhere and linked anyway. And I'd expect all quotes of a local file to reference the same file again (unless the forum software has a problem ...)

But yes, just as with long texts it would common netiquette to quote only as much as necessary for understanding - for the benefit of the reader.

 

Edit:

As seen here, locally stored files do get quoted as links!

To make this more on topic: the sample posted in that thread was written with my last new pen ;-)

Edited May 15, 2016 by Andreas Weber

[Christopher Godfrey]

"...all quotes of a local file to reference the same file again...​"

 

In other words, this practice is <not> using added memory, except for the first posting? Danke sehr, Andreas! I'm afraid that it will continue to be an annoyance to folk like Dick (the kooty man) and myself, however. Oh, well, I'm sure we'll live...

[Andreas Weber]

In other words, this practice is <not> using added memory, except for the first posting? Danke sehr, Andreas!

 

Gern geschehen! Of course it's still bad style to quote a lengthy post in full, whether the length comes from pictures or words (and especially when it's only followed by a comment: "Nice pictures!" or "I agree."). You're absolutely right that a quote should be cut down to the relevant parts!

[Dickkooty2]

 

. You're absolutely right that a quote should be cut down to the relevant parts!

 

Einfach ist intelligent, gel? Doch!

 

Dick

[carlos.q]

 

You can upload less than 2 MB of files to FPN's servers, so anything else (like the photos in my posts above) has to be hosted elsewhere and linked anyway.

 

This is not correct. The 2mb upload limit applies only to a single image. There is no limit as to the quantity of images you may upload. (There is a 2mb total "attachment" limit but I believe that after 30 posts anyone can use the unlimited "upload" tab.)

 

On the other hand, hosting and linking pictures on other sites often lead to pictures disappearing when the links are broken, the sites close down, the OP closes their account, and many others.

 

As an example, please look at this thread that has lost some wonderful pictures due to broken links:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/216855-montblanc-inks/

 

 

PS. I fully agree with your comment: "Of course it's still bad style to quote a lengthy post in full, whether the length comes from pictures or words (and especially when it's only followed by a comment: "Nice pictures!" or "I agree.").

Edited May 15, 2016 by carlos.q

[Andreas Weber]

This is not correct. The 2mb upload limit applies only to a single image. There is no limit as to the quantity of images you may upload. (There is a 2mb total "attachment" limit but I believe that after 30 posts anyone can use the unlimited "upload" tab.)

 

On the other hand, hosting and linking pictures on other sites often lead to pictures disappearing when the links are broken, the sites close down, the OP closes their account, and many others.

 

Regarding the upload limit I find the wording not entirely unambiguous, so I'll trust your interpretation. However, the part important for the topic under discussion still stands, a quote of such an embedded image shows up as a link.

And yes, external links do break (Actually, most of my images on this forum will likely vanish sometime in September, as I mean to change hosting for my website and don't expect to be able to maintain the same structure ...)

[uemuraw]

@uemuraw: Congratulations on that gorgeous new job from BillP (I had looked very covetously at it myself; but decided to employ some restraint -- god, it's so hard, isn't it?). I think that colouring to be exquisite. Enjoy it (and than sell it to me, when you become tired of it?) Ha ha!

That's lucky for me. I had been looking for about a year.

[Christopher Godfrey]

I read with glee your last comment, uemurow!

 

Thanks to Andreas and Carlos for their input. Now, ladies and gentlemen, normal service may resume: I apologize for the red herring...

[zuhandensein]

Normal service? Who said "normal service"? ... Here a Schneider K15 Ballpoint (£0.98) with my favourite Schmidt refill, best new mate for my Cognac. Great German combo.

[uemuraw]

I was standardizing my trio of M101N pens on Mottishaw-stubbed M nibs. And doing that, I stumbled across a pen-nib-ink combination that I had to declare my latest addition to the flock. My "new" Pelikan Souverän with a Masuyama-stubbed B nib sporting Diamine Blue Black. Now this here's a working pen for a dude in a suit.

 

[Namo]

Not so recent, but still… I've always loved the 400nn and had some regrets about selling the one I had several years ago. Last year, I made myself a birthday present: this beautiful 400nn in tortoise, with a delicious stubbish B nib… The red M205 and the 120 came home a few weeks ago: they were the pen of my now late mother, the red one a birthday present for her 70th. The 120 did have some skipping problems. The nib was moving inside the unit. I dismantled the unit and replaced the M steel nib with a Waterman n°2 nib… and the match is perfect. I performed the same thing with the M205. The small black 140 is a pen I found in a flee market in Switzerland several years ago. I gave it to my (now ex) wife, who does not use it a lot (she claims it leaks, but it does not… or the pen just doesn't like her??), so I took it for a walk.

 

Edited May 17, 2016 by Namo

[uemuraw]

I dig the red 205.

[Soot]

Err.. latest, the one on the right.

[christof]

very cool!

[carlos.q]

Soot you are a tease...

Show us the nib!

Show us a writing example!

As an old hamburger commercial would exclaim: "Where's the beef?"

[mitto]

Got vintage Pelikan 400, 400NN and 140 in the last couple weeks.

[Jugadorgraphy]

Err.. latest, the one on the right.

 

 

O3B~ <3 <3 <3

[cellardoor04]

Latest addition is a mint M800 in green with a lovely 14c B nib. Even though I've been collecting M800s for awhile, this is the first green one I've added! Here is the nib juxtaposed with an old style 18c BB nib: