There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
In my bag for school things vary a lot. Lately I've switched over to wholly digital notetaking with a Surface, but I've always carried blue gel pens usually Pilot G2, sometimes Uniball 207s, Vision/Elites, and recently their new Air. The G2 has been a standby since middle school and I still have some of the same pens from then, actually. I dislike the longer drying time on the Pilot ink, but I prefer the color and I'm a careful writer. Rollerballs in general I like for the e
I favor 0.7 for gel, but 1.0 for ballpoint, personally. I rarely use ballpoint for anything I'm going to have to go back and study extensively later, but prefer it for things like sketching and brainstorming. Rollerballs basically end up pulling academic duty almost exclusively. I usually pack a pencil in there too for any scantron exams I might have forgotten about; these occasionally see some use if I feel like sketching something while I'm out.
If you like the G2, anything that takes Parker gel refills will be right up your alley