13 January 2009

Office Pens

Office supplies get worse every year. Oh how fondly I remember the days when one could get a decent pen at work. Now the best pens I get by way of work are hotel pens on business trips. I'm partial to the gel pens at the Parker Meridien in New York.

3 comments:

harveyne said...

It wasn't exactly supplied by work, but they did send me to Tokyo where I bought a Pilot Hi-Tec C and became unhealthily fixated. My writing is dreadful, but it turns out that if you use a 0.2mm line, it becomes legible. It was only when I got home that I discovered that you can't buy them over the counter here and I was forced to descend to the twilight netherworld of japanese pen geeks. Suddenly my adolescent AD&D binges seem kind of cool...

pyker said...

Great. Just what a I need, an expensive pen habit. I ordered some, of course.

JustJoeP said...

The best vendor supplied pen I've ever gotten was a nice black, clickable, efficient ball point from Carpenter Steel in Reading PA, when I went on a plant and lab tour there. I still have it today in my pocket planner.