in reply to OT: Favorite notebooks and pens

I have never cared enough about pens or paper to have much of a preference.

But back in graduate school, I noticed that mathematicians (including myself) universally used mechanical pencils. Easy to write with, easy to read, easy to erase and write over, and no sharpening. :-)

Out of habit I continue to use mechanical pencils even though there isn't much difference between them and anything else for my current needs.

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Re: Re: OT: Favorite notebooks and pens
by nefertari (Chaplain) on Jul 20, 2003 at 06:10 UTC

    In our department the pens are quite mixed. My professor uses every pen that is in his reach (he gives them back).

    I use a mechanical pencil with 0.5 mm B mines (HB is to hard for me, 2B to soft). I use no notebook, but for scribbling we have usually large stacks of printouts of previous versions of papers or the postscript code printed on paper (sometimes the printer drivers do not work). If things are more final I write them up in the computer (in LaTeX), then I can use grep and friends to find things.

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Re: Re: OT: Favorite notebooks and pens
by chanio (Priest) on Jul 20, 2003 at 23:24 UTC
    Yes, I used to program in Assembly Language at a job and everybody used a pencil type 'B', a soft white rubber and some big squared papers. It was a sin to use other things!

    I still believe that it is the best way of programming! It feels better.

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