EFNIR: Aurora Black

[LizEF]

4 hours ago, InesF said:

🐭☂️🐈

 

[LizEF]

2 hours ago, txomsy said:

🤐 I do see the zip-mouthed emoticon on my Linux Firefox. But you have to scroll down the large emoticon list to find it. Maybe that is the thing. Some modern interfaces tend to hide the scrollbar from users unless you hover the mouse over the border of the window, making it seem as if there is no scrollbar and no extra elements, misleading unaware users.

Nope, I scrolled both vertically and horizontally (the "People & Body" category requires horizontal scrolling) and not there.  (I'm a former application developer / software engineer / programmer - I'm hyper-aware. )

[txomsy]

In my case it is in the initial Smileys & Emotion section.

 

OK, so then try this: when I open the smiley drop-down, at the bottom (no scrolling) there is a search box: enter "zipper" (for "Zipper mouth face"). It should show as the only choice.

 

Actually, if you just type directly when the emoticon dialog is open it is entered in the search box.

 

Alternatively, type ':zip' and let the computer automatic markdown system bring up all emoticons that match as you type (kinda like when you enter @ and the name of a user).

 

As you hove over the emoticons, a label with its name/markdown is shown that you can use in the future (if you remember it, which I never do) to look for it.

 

I don't want to be insensitive/offensive to cat owners, but there is more than one way to skin a cat. 🙀  (what I can't find is an evil, demon grin )

 

As an archaic BSD (among many other OSes) user I have a soft spot for daemons. BTW, glad to meet another computer-head. I still have several years ahead on the trenches.

[LizEF]

6 minutes ago, txomsy said:

OK, so then try this: when I open the smiley drop-down, at the bottom (no scrolling) there is a search box: enter "zipper" (for "Zipper mouth face"). It should show as the only choice.

  that was my first attempt - to save myself scrolling.  I use the emojis a lot.  (I'm also the sort of person who reads - back when they made them - the programmer's reference that listed each object type and all its associated properties and functions - not every word, but I'd read the basics of each property and function so I knew what was available to me.)  Windows 10 + Firefox 118 (yes, I hate new versions) simply don't offer this emoji (or, the site when viewed with this combo doesn't).

 

11 minutes ago, txomsy said:

I don't want to be insensitive/offensive to cat owners, but there is more than one way to skin a cat. 🙀  (what I can't find is an evil, demon grin )

Makhabesh launches a fireball at you ... 🔥.  Just resort to the good old days: <eg>.

 

13 minutes ago, txomsy said:

BTW, glad to meet another computer-head. I still have several years ahead on the trenches.

As far as I'm concerned, only an insane person confines themselves to a little tiny screen and an even tinier keyboard!  I have two monitors, and while my keyboard* is compact, it's still 4x the size of my phone...  I work, study, surf, and socialize via computer.  The phone is for reading (some things) and playing, and rare surfing (it isn't for phone calls or texting - I'm an antique and only have a landline for phone calls and nothing for texting).

 

*The one I mostly use.  I have 5 or 6 Gateway 124 key Anykey programmable keyboards in a closet, with adapters, for times when I feel the need to use a programmable keyboard. (Yes, I know, there are apps - the keyboard is better.)

[Bo Bo Olson]

I still haven't found the simile with the size 60 boot of self admonishment.

 

Could use a Snidely Whiplash mustache twister too.

[LizEF]

35 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I still haven't found the simile with the size 60 boot of self admonishment.

 

Could use a Snidely Whiplash mustache twister too.

[txomsy]

16 hours ago, LizEF said:

As far as I'm concerned, only an insane person confines themselves to a little tiny screen and an even tinier keyboard! 

Or ignorant.

 

My students come with a one screen only, one window only mentality. In scientific computing you need to use the command line, which they typically don't know. No problem. Just follow a tutorial. To avoid switching back and forth, have a second screen for the browser while you type at a terminal on the main screen. Then you want to record the script. Instead of a third screen, reduce windows and have a text editor. And a second terminal to test commands. Then you run a lengthy (sometimes weeks/months) process and do not want to wait, have another workspace with its own broswer, terminal, editor, whatever...

 

After one month they are hooked. They typically have four workspaces, with many terminals, windows and tabs on each, plus additional VNC sessions on servers, each with four workspaces... and there is  no way back.

 

Once you discover there are better ways to enjoy doing things, you never want to go back to stone age discomfort.

 

Much like with pens and writing.

 

If you are never shown an appreciation for nice handwriting or hand-drawing/painting, you don't feel any urge. If you are exposed to this appreciation, then you quickly want to get your first pencil, then a sharpener and eraser, then a pen, then try several inks, then want several pens to use several inks simultaneously, then different nibs, then comes lettering, sketching, drawing, painting, whatever... and there is no way back. You may stop doing it for decades, but once you've tried it once, you will always long for it and want a comeback to the "savory", "rich", more satisfactory way of doing things.

 

That's where reviews come handy: to show that there is not just one single pen, one single nib one single ink (or if you prefer not just BIC in "normal" and "fine", with only one black, blue, red and green) and one single copy paper.

 

So, please, I beg you, do keep the great work, all of you who can.

 

I know. I should. But I have too little spare time split into too many short segments. I'm still "on the road" (workwise) myself.

[InesF]

23 minutes ago, txomsy said:

Once you discover there are better ways to enjoy doing things, you never want to go back to stone age discomfort.

+1 👍

[LizEF]

5 hours ago, txomsy said:

Once you discover there are better ways to enjoy doing things, you never want to go back to stone age discomfort.

Ain't that the truth!    And how ironic that the more modern technology is the "stone age discomfort"!

 

(When I was working as a programmer, nothing short of three screens would do, and if the company would have given me four, it would have been better.  No more than four, though - that would have been the exact right number.)

[arcfide]

4 hours ago, LizEF said:

(When I was working as a programmer, nothing short of three screens would do, and if the company would have given me four, it would have been better.  No more than four, though - that would have been the exact right number.)

 

Ironically, as a programmer, I've gone from multiple monitors back down to one, intentionally. I've also gone from much fancier inks to basics. Sometimes you have to really explore the space only to end up right back where you started. 

[LizEF]

17 minutes ago, arcfide said:

Ironically, as a programmer, I've gone from multiple monitors back down to one, intentionally.

Cannot imagine this, though I suppose the language, tools, and type of programming would influence it, as well as the nature of your position (what other things you do besides programming).

 

18 minutes ago, arcfide said:

I've also gone from much fancier inks to basics.

Perhaps you need to see a physician...  Meanwhile, the kind folk in our FP community keep shipping me more and more ink!  I'll be reviewing until the world ends (or I die, which will basically be the same thing from my perspective ).

 

18 minutes ago, arcfide said:

Sometimes you have to really explore the space only to end up right back where you started. 

I've been where I started; don't want to go back (unless I get a do-over with inside tips from "older, wiser me", then I'd be sorely tempted).

[txomsy]

A warning from the @LizEF of the future . That would be worth seeing

 

As for programming... it all depends when you started. When I did there were no windows, only hardware terminals (VT52), and no virtual consoles. As I was doing very-very long running programs (serially processing huge databases), having extra monitors/consoles/terminals was a must to keep working and monitor jobs while one was running. I'd use as many as I could, even though those were the times of hardbound paper documentation (anyone remembers The Grey Wall?). If I were to go back to the basics (which I wouldn't mind, not so different from what I am still doing) I'd still want as many screens as possible. For now, I just use a laptop with an extra screen (6 local workspaces, and 6 virtual sessions each with four workspaces on different front-end servers).

 

For inks... as a school boy I'd at least use blue, black and red, and often green. As a poor school boy, I'd chase whenever a bottle run out the cheapest same-color replacement at the time (so I'd switch brands and "models", Parker, Pelikan, Sheaffer, Waterman, Montblanc, Cross... whatever was available and on sale at any one of many B&M stores at the purchase moment -as attested by some bottles I still keep). Not that different from now either, only now I can have all simultaneously instead of sequentially --also because I don't empty bottles so fast, and now inks are comparably cheaper, and my acquisitive power has been somewhat higher than then leading me to hoard for the now coming hard times. Which I congratulate myself for having done as I am now driven into using (instead of buying) mode.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

There were times when I could afford inks....while one was on a pen diet between gorging pen fits. ...before papers.

Which is why I have more inks than I can use up....unless I don't buy any more for the next 6 years.....

By that time and the way governments ...both of them...limp behind inflation for retired...I'll be down to buying only Pelikan 4001 or cheaper.

 

 

They have huge departments that figure out exactly how much to give in retirement payments,  to increase health costs, so one can buy a two-pack instead of a six-pack.

Truthful gripes and groans left out....well... as long as I can afford 12-15 year old rums.

[LizEF]

2 hours ago, txomsy said:

A warning from the @LizEF of the future . That would be worth seeing

Probably only to younger me...  Everyone else would roll their eyes and think, "duh".

 

[txomsy]

Anyway, after the boring stuff, I though I might as well make up for it with a light, quick 10 seconds sketch in another black ink I really enjoy (under different conditions): Kuretake black in a Kuretake brush pen. I hope you like this one:

 

 

I do also like cats, but never had one.

 

The closest I've gone is a poodle, which I often wonder if it is a dog or a cat (or even a meerkat, sometimes):

 

 

Well, time to give her a walk. Bye for now.

 

[yazeh]

@txomsy love the sketches. I love Kuretake brush pens too! Enjoy your walk with your Meer-kat/poodle

 

[LizEF]

Awww!  Wonderful sketches, @txomsy!  Thank you.

[TheseAreMyPens]

All I can say here is, thank you for this incredibly detailed review. Blacks are troublesome inks, I find. I shall find the right nib for my Aurora black. My papers are always good ones - Tomoe (in all its infamous progressions), Yamamoto, Midori.

thank you!

[Lithium466]

What a coincidence that this thread gets revived, and I just took Aurora black out of storage. In a Lamy CP1 with a Z58 EF nib, a full success, very competent combo

[LizEF]

10 hours ago, TheseAreMyPens said:

All I can say here is, thank you for this incredibly detailed review. Blacks are troublesome inks, I find. I shall find the right nib for my Aurora black. My papers are always good ones - Tomoe (in all its infamous progressions), Yamamoto, Midori.

thank you!

You're most welcome!  Hope you're able to find that right nib!