In other news, the camera in my cell phone still sucks.
I actually put them on Wednesday night, in the dark. The picture was shot Thursday afternoon, in slight rain; it was the first time I’d been near the car in daylight outdoors (covered parking at work).
Come have dim sum and wish me a happy birthday! Sunday, 20-Sep-2009, at Jun-Bo, 7717 Nicollet Ave. S, at 11 am.
I’ve set up a Facebook event for this, to try to keep track a little of what to expect.
This seems to be product 06194. I can’t find it on their web site, though I find related products with nearby numbers; I suspect it’s been discontinued.
This is an oversize side-bound spiral notebook. The pages are micro-perforated but not three-hole punched. The paper is “ivory”, and called “heavyweight”; it might be 20 pound, certainly no heavier. It also has two “pocket” pages.
The backing board of this notebook is much thicker, and much stiffer, than any of the others had. It’s very nice to use. This is the best of the notebooks I’ve found, though as I recall it was rather expensive (though not at the level of the $30 to $150 lab notebooks).
I don’t think they make anything like this one any more, either. Its product id seems to be B-101.
This is the usual composition book, sewn binding taped over the back, smaller than letter size. But it has graph-paper pages instead of lined. That’s nice. The big thing wrong with it is that the cover and back (same piece of board, wrapped around) are too flimsy for it to be useful in the situations when you need a notebook. It’d work fine writing on a desk.
This paper feels smoother and nicer than the paper in the cheap spiral-bound notebook, but it’s still too thin to use both sides with roller pens or fountain pens. But then I never use both sides in a composition book anyway, and rarely in a spiral bound even though they open flat.
The product number it gives on the cover is 05674. This one is quite old, and I can’t find that item number, or anything that looks a lot like this notebook, on their web site.
This is a completely ordinary spiral-bound graph-paper notebook. It’s three-hole punched, the pages are not oversize or perforated. The paper is light, not as heavy as 20 pound. The 4-to-the-inch squares are in gray again; maybe this is e Mead thing?
The thing wrong with this is that the back board, while it looks like cardboard, is hardly any stiffer than the paper. This makes it not very useful for most of the situations where one wants to use a notebook.
It was, however, very cheap.