For more than five years, I've had the same celery green, cluttered, memorabilia and dust collector-crammed home office dominated by a silly ego wall. A dog's breakfast of decor, you could call it. So I took advantage of a few days of down time and a paint sale at Lowes, and went to work...










I'm gonna hang a 36" square sheet of patina'd steel diamond plate on the wall at the end of my work table as a magnetic bulletin board, and maybe a much smaller sheet next to my desk, and then it's finito.

Looks really nice.

What fountain pen are you using the most? Do you keep several in rotation?

Love the typewriter and parking meter

That is the parking meter that Paul Revere kept his horse tied to before he made his famous ride.

Gorgeous!

But may I suggest a few additions:

I like the flow of energy in the first photo
the desk placement that allows free Chi,
but in the room where your face is turned
toward the wall, add a mirror (in keeping with
the decor) to bounce positive energy back
toward you, and improve the flow.

...and a few wind chimes if you don't find
it too distracting would increase the Chi.


lol ...looked again...
I like the parking meter as well

Cool Steve, I like seeing the original MacCentral poster. I remember driving into LA to meet at the Northridge Apple Store to sign it …. and for the only time actually meeting other forum members. You put a lot of effort to make that project happen.

I use them all in rotation, but my favs are these Monte Verde pens. Solid, $90 workhorse pens that just keep on keepin' on.



But when I want to "show off" a little, this is my go-to bad boy.


It's handmade by an artisan that works in a variety of materials. The barrel is made of compressed sawdust and metal shavings. Gold broad-tip nib and hand-tooled captop & clip. It has incredible heft and balance. Whenever I bring it to a meeting, I take along an extra ink cart, because the minute I pull it out, everyone in the room wants to play with it before the meeting can continue, and by the time I get it back, it's damn near empty!

The parking meter is left over from a Kryptonite lock shoot I did back in the 80s. It's the real deal, and it works! The "word processor" is a Smith-Corona SuperSpeed, circa 1942. When I first grabbed it for $5 at a flea market more than 20 years ago, it was fully functional. But over time, and with getting schlepped around so many times, some keys have gone comatose, and it needs a ribbon.

Too bad we couldn't get the whole team together in NYC for MacWorld and the auction. But we did have a good showing and it was awesome to spend a few days with so many members ion meatspace.

I keep a TWSBI at my desk filled with Noodler's Heart of darkness since it is waterproof ink. I have a Parker Sonnett and a Lamy 2000 near at hand. I carry a TWSBI mini and various other pens at work. I like the Lamy Safaris and All Star for work pens too. I fill them with Noodler's Bernake Blue because it is very fast drying and works well on the cheap paper at work. I have several old Parkers and Sheaffers that I use on occasion. I really like the old Sheaffer Imperials.