Platinum Pen Co. of Japan put out a news release today that its popular Preppy fountain pen is going to …
Anyone who thinks that ink pens aren’t for tough guys obviously has never seen a tactical pen.
They’re writing instruments equally useful for jotting down grocery lists or doing battle in the back alleys of Bangkok. Really – pens specifically made to be used in street fights.
Here’s an interesting follow-up to yesterday’s post about the demise of handwriting: A Kentucky newspaper has a story about a teacher at Lafayette High School who, dismayed at the lack of cursive handwriting skills in his students, put them up to a penmanship contest – and rewarded the winners with fountain pens.
There has been much written in the media over the last several months about the supposed death of handwriting, with some writers gladly bidding goodbye to cursive.
Which is all very funny, given the results of a new study coming out of the University of Washington. Perhaps you’ve heard. Researchers found that children wrote faster and wrote more when composing essays with pen and paper than when using keyboards.
