Indeed, I am a much better typist than handwriterist. I never received "A's" in handwriting in grade school. I generally prefer typing to writing. Much faster, much more legible.
That said, I do have favorite pens that I enjoy writing with. They are manufactured by the Japanese company Sakura. The fine folks at Sakura are the inventors of gel pens. They have many pen and marker-type products for art-type people. They also have a dedicated fan base that use some of their writing utensils for everyday use.
A few years ago, I accompanied my then-fiancé, now-wife on a trip to Michaels in Champaign. I was wandering the store and happened upon these pens, where I purchased one on a whim. It seemed to write well and looked pretty decent. Sakura has provided my writing utensil of choice ever since.
I'm no calligrapher...
Futalog-wha?
As per this article from the BBC, apparently some science-types in that other hemisphere found some new dinosaur bones. Isn't that great? Obviously, they're calling it the "futalognkosaurus" (pronounced foo-ta-long-
koh-sohr-us). I mean, the really good names are already taken.
The diagram to our right displays the bones that they found, leading to such exclamations as "It's like a whole lost world for us," and "It's among the biggest dinosaur finds and the most complete for a giant dinosaur."
I'm counting six bones over there. Six. That's all it takes to be one of the "most complete for a giant dinosaur?" We really have lowered our standards...back in my day, we had to assemble an entire limb of a paleontological find before we started including it in the upper echelon of completeness for "giant dinosaurs."
