21JUL2024

Happy Sunday, everyone! Is anyone else ready to have at least one weekend go by without some major national breaking news alerts? 😅 Let’s get to the good stuff, quick!

• ✏️ Uniball Kuru Toga Pencil* - I’ve been using mechanical pencils more and more lately. They’re just a lot of fun, and it’s handy to be able to erase rather than scratch out my inevitable mistakes. I’ve long loved my Rotring mechanical pencils, but they are almost as fragile as they are beautiful and expensive. Lately, I’ve switched to a Uniball Kuru Toga and found it delightful. It’s cheaper and features neat technology that rotates the lead for a consistent tip size.
  *Amazon-affiliate link.
• 🎬 Stream Team - I’ve mentioned before how much I enjoy Letterboxd, a “social network” for reading and sharing movie reviews. I still love it, but it lacks the fun of conversing with friends about the movies you enjoy. Kyle Ford launched Stream Team last month as a more conversation-oriented community for chatting about movies and shows. Every day there’s a prompt to spark discussion, like “What is the best sequel of all time?” or “What was the funniest movie you watched as a kid?” Lots of fun to share and reflect with others. If you’re into geeking out about movies, this is a great fun place to hang out.
• 🤳 Simple Scan - From Greg Pierce, the creator of the excellent Drafts app, Simple Scan is my favorite iOS app for quickly scanning documents. It effortlessly auto-detects the edges of your document, cropping and stretching appropriately, lets you make black & white, grayscale, or color scans of multi-page documents, and quickly exports in whatever format you want to wherever you want it to go. Lovely.
• 🍴 The “Roman” Army Knife - As a life-long everyday carry gear nerd whose obsession started with a Swiss Army Knife gift as a kid, I loved this piece of history—a nearly 2000-year-old Roman utility knife featuring a knife, fork, spoon, and several other small picks and extractors, all in one. Hugs to my mom for spotting and sharing this one—Hi Mom!
• 📚 Library Extension - This brilliant browser extension lets you know if your local library carries (and has in stock) any books or ebooks you’re browsing on Amazon, Good Reads, etc. It works for thousands of libraries across the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, and also supports digital books and audiobooks for libraries that offer them.

That’s it for this week, be well everyone!