The Pilot MR is one of my favorite retractable ballpoint pens, not so much for the writing – which is above-average smooth for a ballpoint – as for the design of the pen itself.
It has a sleek, finished barrel, fits well in the hand and extends and retracts with one simple twist. Sexy and smooth, like any good pen should be, the MR is sort of the writing instrument equivalent of the little black dress.
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Turns out we aren’t the only ones who obsess over choosing a writing instrument. There are some accountants. They’re in trouble. And they need our help.
It all started on a forum for people taking the CPA exam. DaveM was experiencing hand cramps and asked for recommendations on the “best pen for note re-writing.”
You know you probably have a winning Kickstarter project when you’ve raised more than three times your funding goal and still have nearly a month to go.
Roxtar Labs launched the Apollo Technical Pen and Drafting Scale project with a goal of $30,000 to manufacture and distribute the precision pens. Within a week, the project had doubled that number and has continued to climb now past $90,000.
I think the key to their success may be the pen’s compatibility with an amazing number of refills, more than 50 all total. Included in that list: Pentel EnerGel, Pilot Hi-Tec-C, Lamy Rollerball and both the Pilot FriXion and Uniball Fanthom erasable ink pens.
Apparently, Wile E. Coyote has gotten into international politics.
That can be the only explanation for a rash of reports the last couple of years about tricksters smuggling “disappearing ink pens” into polling places around the world from Russia to Maldives.
Pentel has been supporting various cancer campaigns for several years, starting with breast cancer in 2006. Now, the pen company …