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== SpaceX Notebooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Jeffner A says, have either of you checked out the SpaceX notebooks? They look pretty cool. So what do you think about these?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I've seen this artwork before. And I've seen it because of the posters that they made. But the thing that I'm not sure about on this page is I can't see anything that kind of indicates that SpaceX are allowing these notebooks to be made. And that seems kind of weird to me. I mean, they may well be, but, like, I don't know. Like, these are posters that SpaceX made and they're on these notebooks. And I can't seem to understand whether that's something that is cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And I don't know either. And the...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Plus, frankly, like, whilst the artwork's nice, they don't really look like the most inspiring notebooks in the world, to be honest. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll see. So the person who asked the question has ordered them. So I said, let us know how they are. Yeah. We'll see.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let us know, Jeff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This next one is kind of timely. It's from KordomsXYZ. Are there any notebooks similar to the Field Notes brand Ambition Planner? Three and a half by five and a half. Undated weekly planner for a Midori-like system. So you remember how the Ambition edition had three different formats, right, Myke? So that was a cool little notebook. I thought Field Notes might do that planner as a regular thing, but they went for a bigger planner, which I'm using. So I can recommend the Field Notes 56-week planner. It's a bigger format than what you're looking for. But it's very cool. It has a nice weekly planner set up. The other ones that are good are the Hobonichi Weeks, which is not easy to get. It's also in Japanese. That may be a no-go, but it's taller and skinnier than the three and a half by five and a half. The one you might like the most, if you're doing, if you mean Midori-like system, either like the Traveler's Notebook system. I don't know if you're talking about the large or the small, but Traveler's Refill number 19 for the large regular size is probably exactly what you need. It has like a week planner on the left side, blank page on the right side. And that's kind of probably my top pick and the easiest to get for this type of planner type question. None I can really come up with are the three and a half by five and a half. There's always the standard memorandum. I just find that to be too small. It's actually smaller than three and a half by five and a half. There's not much room to write. It's very cool. Maybe look at that as well. Do you have anything else that I'm missing?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I don't have anything in that style, but considering that you mentioned the Field Notes 56, I will mention the Baron Fig 2017 planner, the confidant. It arrived and it is really cool and it fits everything that Adina was looking for. It's a really, really, really nicely made product by Baron Fig. Cool, yeah. And I wanted to mention it because we've been a bit tough on Baron Fig recently. Oh, yeah. I mean, this is a good product for sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't think we've, we've been fair. I think, at least in my mind, we've been fair.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We've been fair, but fair is tough.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Fair is tough.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I now will say that the other, that the black box edition doesn't, doesn't float my boat.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I mean, it's the, it's better than the first one. It's at least something new. The first one, you're going to make me go down this path again, aren't you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I am.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The first one was a reprint. Yep, the work play. That's dumb. I'm sorry, it just is. The second one is at least, okay, they did some full stamping and have some cool colors and some nice logos. I can get behind that. Plus, it's the format that I like the most. So, but it's still, at some point, they're going to have to do something more. Yeah. So, which is fine. Which is, they're promising. So, we're keeping all right on it. They're promising. Yes. So, they said they knew I'd like this one. Yes, I like the new black box. It's still just a stamp on the outside, but it's better than the first one. So, back to your bear and fig planner. We're going to have a review of that on the blog soon. Jeff is working on that before the year's out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Also, after the Christmas episode, the gift guide episode, I bought for Adina. Don't tell her.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Don't tell her. I bought her the one that was a Kickstarter project. I'm going to find it now. Wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, it starts with an S. The Slice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No. Slice?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nope. No, not Slice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nope. Oh, my God. I'm looking in the show notes. Why can't I find out I'm the worst person? Where is it? It's going to be in it. The Write Your Own Adventure. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. I think that was a really cute, nicely designed. I like the video of it. So, I bought that for her. Hopefully, it will arrive before Christmas. I'll see if she likes it or not. If she doesn't, it's a product that I wouldn't mind owning. I could probably try and do something with. But I appreciate everything that the lady, Kate, was trying to do with it. So, I think that I was happy to buy the product because I felt like I was supporting a good maker.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, agreed. I thought that was kind of cool. Yeah, it's a nice product. If Adina likes it, tell her she needs to come on the show to review it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. I can make that happen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Let's wrap up these last couple real quick, even though this next one I'll probably not be quick on. So, Kim herself, and this is an older question, so I hope she's listening and catches this on here. But I wanted to ask it because it's good. Sometimes it seems to me that ink reviews are Peninnitus World's equivalent of snobbish wine reviews. Can they be more useful? Number one, I need a little bit more clarity on that. I said this never crossed my mind. Like, I've never thought ink reviews were like snobbish wine reviews because the purpose of an ink review is to explain the features, the benefits, the negatives about each ink. You know, there's chromatography in these reviews to show you the palette of colors that you might expect. You know, there's water tests because people want to know the waterproofnesses of the ink. There's permanence properties that people want to know. There's feathering and bleeding. There's dry time. These all seem like quality things to tell someone about an ink, don't you think?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, the problem is, I mean, I don't know why you would pick just necessarily ink as a problem. I think pens are a similar issue. Yeah. It's that this stuff is difficult to explain because your mileage may vary. Like, 20 minutes ago, me and Brad were arguing about how the Field Notes paper feels. Like, it's a difficult thing to describe in the first place, and it gets even more difficult as you try and describe the nuances of something in written word or in audio that you can't experience for yourself. It's tough.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And like, with wine, everyone's palette's different.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, you know, what I like, Myke doesn't like, and vice versa, and we'll find some similarities in common ground, but there's going to be some really particular things that I like or dislike, and same with Myke. So, it's weird. You know, I'd love to hear some more elaboration on the question. Maybe there's something we can pin down, but I'll go ahead and tell Myke, so I'm on record. We're going to have a guest next week. Thanks for letting me know. Yeah, yeah, no problem. That can probably shed some light on this very inky topic. So, I will leave it at that, and no pressure on our guest next week. But we will ask him this question, because that's all he does is inquiries.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. Good teaser.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right. Last one. Nathan SH says, my favorite pin is the Muji .38 gel. Want to try a fountain pen, though? Is there a nib that fine for the Pilot Metropolitan? The fine, Pilot Metropolitan's ballpark-y close. It's the easiest, closest thing you can get. Otherwise, I would do the Platinum Preppy O2, which is finer than that. That's going to get you around your Muji .38 gel. So, that's kind of where I'd go with that. So, easy enough. And that's an ass TPA wrap.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you want to find our show notes for this week, head on over to relay.fm.com. Penaddict slash 233. Thanks again to our lovely sponsors of this week's episode. The five-fold over at Harry's Foot Cardigan and Tom Bin. I hope that we've helped with some of your holiday shopping on today's episode of our sponsors, as well as the pens we've been speaking about. If you want to find Brad online, head on over to penaddict.com and become a member of the Penaddict, because you should. Or go to knock.co and buy some of their products as well. Buy, buy, buy, everybody. You can do it. We believe in you. Brad is also at Dowdyism on Twitter, and he is penaddict on Instagram. I am at imike, I-M-Y-K-E. If you're interested in seeing the progress of my new home, I published a YouTube video about it yesterday. I'll put a link in the show notes in case you want to go and watch it. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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