May 2012 archive

Vrrroooom!

Since a lot of people’s thoughts turn to motorcycles when winter’s icy grip departs (at least, where winter can be said to have an icy grip), I suppose it’s appropriate that I get in a page for one of Waterman’s odd Harley-Davidson cross-market exercises while spring is still in the air. The ongoing Waterman gusher …

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Chinese Infiltrators

A couple of fresh pen-maker’s references, for Baoer and Fuliwen.  The main utility of them, I’m sorry to say, is to save others a lot of disappointment in Googling by distilling that disappointment into a single quick dose.  The pages include a sample of their works, the 388 and the 2024 respectively, which despite similarity …

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Pushing a Vac Around the Place

It’s nearly three weeks since TWSBI announced the release of its new Vac 700, and almost a week that I’ve had one in hand to examine.  It is, therefore, long past time that I got a review page put together for it. This has moved me to also work up some steam on other Chinese …

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