#studybox

My Study Box:

I went to parent’s for Christmas (obviously) and I had to study, so I reunited the writing essentials and put them all in an egg’s box (I removed the part that held the eggs). It was a perfect fit for all this!

It contains:

-  Uni Lakubo Fine 0.7 Ballpoint Pen in Blue and in Red

-  BiC Cristal Medium Ballpoint Pen in Black

- Staedler’s HB Pencil as well as a 0.5 Mechanical Pencil

- Faber-Castell eraser

- Rotring 0.5 HB Leads

- Staple’s Loose-Leaf Rings

- Post it’s (white-label from the grocery store and from Tiger)

- Highlighters (from Tiger)

- Colored fine felt-tip pens (from Lidl)

- Bateries + TI-nSpire Calculator

You can notice from this that I almost don’t write with white-label products (execept the pens from Lidl, used just for titles and graphics) and there’s a reason for that. I am very particular with what instruments I write with.

The fine tip of the blue pen (the one I use for main text) helps my hand-lettering to look more clean and neat.

As I took some drawing as well as technical drawing classes, I became particular with pencils too. It is important that they are smooth but not too soft, comfortable to write with and their tips are resistant (no more pencil-sharpener nonsense - the tip doesn’t fall out). It is important too that your pencil sharpener is good as well and it helps when it has a deposit, so that you don’t become too lazy to sharpen your pencil.

I have also tried white-label leads for my mechanical pencil: it was a disaster! They kept breaking with every two words that I wrote. I once had to end a study session earlier than I thought because, among other things, the damned lead kept breaking and it was annoying me past my limits.

Erasers come in here too: colored erasers - they tend to stain your paper; old erasers (YES, THAT’S A BAD THING) - are too stiff and can stain your paper or tear it; white-label - too many shavings and get old faster.

The Famicom's edutainment tape drive ⊟

This is the "Studybox," a device made by Fukutake Publishing that ran cassette-based games on the Famicom-- with cassette audio, which is kind of neat! Also neat, I guess: all the games were educational, including multiple English courses and the "Newtonland" science program.

I promise this video gets better after the shakycam in the first minute or so:

Thanks to Inside-Games for today's lesson about fruits and vegetables.