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Just had a monitor fail in the most bizarre way posible. I got some weird screen flicker/tearing. I assumed that it was my video card doing someting wonky, especially since it would happen sporadically when playing Minetest, and would often persist for a while after. A reboot cleared it the first time it happened.

This time it was really bad though. The weird thing is that when I disconnected the HDMI cable, the distortion persisted on the OSD. Also, there was still very distinct remnant of the image that had been on the screen. It wasn't your typical burn-in, as it wasn't static. It was just... weird.



It's been over a year now since my last blog post. #Today I started working on a new one about my adventures with #org-mode. As an experiment, I'm trying to compose the post itself in org-mode, and then export to HTML for the site.

Depending on how reasonable the resulting HTML ends up being, this might be my go-to method of composing blog posts going forward.


in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Worse than back to square one. I can't access it through a browser either.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Hopped over to another server and all's well again. We'll see for how long.





Just got my sample ink pack in the mail, and I've got to say Diamine Ruby Blues might be my new favourite ink. The photos online don't do it justice. The ink changes colour depending on the angle you look at it from. Is this a more common thing than I realize?
#FountainPens
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I really LOVE my Ruby Blues ink. The intense deep blue with unexpected subtle red flash in certain places. And that astounding bottle!
The color change in various angles and light is called 'sheening'/'sheen' and many sites that sell ink have the sheening inks sorted in a category or at least the ability to search for sheen in the description.
in reply to redbanjer 🪕

@redbanjer 🪕 My two suppliers of choice are Phidon (a local-ish brick and mortar store) and Goulet Pens. Though I've recently heard good things about Jet Pens (I think) but I've no experience with them.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Yes I have bought a lot of stuff from Goulet Pens. Also from FPR (Fountain Pen Revolution)... I love their Ultra Flex nib pens.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

P.S. Sheening ink...--> Not to be confused with 'shimmer'/shimmering' inks which have actual microscopic bits of sparkle glitter in them (which may cause clogging issues in some pens, depending on who you ask).

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