The longest thread ever

Saw a great quote today:

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - Josh Jenkins

Which made me think, at what point in our lives do we switch from pencils to pens? Whether in your school notebooks or doing crosswords and such.
 
dudog84 said:
Saw a great quote today:

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - Josh Jenkins

Which made me think, at what point in our lives do we switch from pencils to pens? Whether in your school notebooks or doing crosswords and such.
Click to expand...
I still love my pencils. I used to buy the new mechanical pencils when they came out. Finally fond one that made me quit trying others. The lead doesn't break. The pencil is constructed such that it rotates the lead for even wear.

Still searching on the pencil front.
 
DukieInKansas said:
I still love my pencils. I used to buy the new mechanical pencils when they came out. Finally fond one that made me quit trying others. The lead doesn't break. The pencil is constructed such that it rotates the lead for even wear.

Still searching on the pencil front.
Click to expand...
Agree. I prefer a pencil most of the time.
 
DukieInKansas said:
I still love my pencils. I used to buy the new mechanical pencils when they came out. Finally fond one that made me quit trying others. The lead doesn't break. The pencil is constructed such that it rotates the lead for even wear.

Still searching on the pencil front.
Click to expand...
I want one of these. What kind is it? I use mechanical all the time but they can get annoying with broken lead.
 
I love, love, love mechanical pencils. I specifically use Pentel pencils with 0.7mm leads. My lead breakage is very low, but I'm careful to not advance the lead very far at any one time.
 
I watched a video on competitive jigsaw puzzling. (Yes, it's a thing.) For the early rounds in competitions, the standard is 500 piece puzzles. I decided to see how fast I could put together a 500 piece puzzle. Answer: about 4 hours. The world champion finished the final round puzzle in 38 minutes, give or take, last year.

The Drewsk is up visiting. I asked him, as a slightly late birthday present, to do a 500 piece puzzle with me to see if the two of us were more competitive than I am alone. We put a 500 piece puzzle together in 1 hour, 12 minutes, 27 seconds. Not competitive but not bad. I told him that if it took more than 2 hours, he could quit.
 
Bostondevil said:
I watched a video on competitive jigsaw puzzling. (Yes, it's a thing.) For the early rounds in competitions, the standard is 500 piece puzzles. I decided to see how fast I could put together a 500 piece puzzle. Answer: about 4 hours. The world champion finished the final round puzzle in 38 minutes, give or take, last year.

The Drewsk is up visiting. I asked him, as a slightly late birthday present, to do a 500 piece puzzle with me to see if the two of us were more competitive than I am alone. We put a 500 piece puzzle together in 1 hour, 12 minutes, 27 seconds. Not competitive but not bad. I told him that if it took more than 2 hours, he could quit.
Click to expand...
That’s about the same for me. Was that in a single sitting? I usually do one jigsaw puzzle per holiday weekend. But I break it into an hour or so stints across a 3 day weekend. Usually in the afternoon.
 
YmoBeThere said:
That’s about the same for me. Was that in a single sitting? I usually do one jigsaw puzzle per holiday weekend. But I break it into an hour or so stints across a 3 day weekend. Usually in the afternoon.
Click to expand...

I did 2 stints of 2 hours, a morning session and an afternoon session.
 
Bostondevil said:
I watched a video on competitive jigsaw puzzling. (Yes, it's a thing.) For the early rounds in competitions, the standard is 500 piece puzzles. I decided to see how fast I could put together a 500 piece puzzle. Answer: about 4 hours. The world champion finished the final round puzzle in 38 minutes, give or take, last year.

The Drewsk is up visiting. I asked him, as a slightly late birthday present, to do a 500 piece puzzle with me to see if the two of us were more competitive than I am alone. We put a 500 piece puzzle together in 1 hour, 12 minutes, 27 seconds. Not competitive but not bad. I told him that if it took more than 2 hours, he could quit.
Click to expand...
As soon as I was big enough to sit up, I was doing jigsaws with my grandma. I've never timed myself but I might try next time. Is there a level of difficulty outside of size? Cause there are some tough ones out there.
 
aimo said:
As soon as I was big enough to sit up, I was doing jigsaws with my grandma. I've never timed myself but I might try next time. Is there a level of difficulty outside of size? Cause there are some tough ones out there.
Click to expand...

The young woman making the YouTube videos showed the ones that were used in competition last year. They were all Ravensburger. Just looking at them on the video, I would classify them as medium. There were definite areas of different colors and the areas were large enough to make an initial sort very helpful.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top