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July 17, 2007
Notebook style notebooks
"Of course, 7-11! I can get a cup of coffee flavored coffee at 7-11. What could be more basic than a Seven-God-damned-Eleven?" - Denis Leary, Lock 'n' Load
I love my Moleskine notebook. Despite all my fancy computer science research and all my fancy gadgets, I still keep it old school using a pen-and-paper notebook to keep track of my life and to do lists and random notes to myself. What could be simpler? It's a notebook. It has ruled pages. It fits in your pocket. You write stuff down on the pages, and you open it up when you want to read notes you wrote to yourself.
At least, that's what you'd think. I filled up one of my notebooks, and I went to Barnes and Noble to buy a new one, and this is what I saw:
There were music-score moleskine books, story-board moleskine books, moleskine address books, moleskine calendars, moleskine reporter notebooks, and a whole selection of moleskine travel guides, which was an individual city or country travel guide in the form factor of a moleskine book ,with room for notes. The one thing they didn't have was a normal ruled moleskine notebook! What the heck? All I wanted was a normal notebook to write notes in! Look, I didn't want a sketchbook. I didn't want to compose music. I didn't want to write out a storyboard to help sell my script. I wanted a notebook.
Ultimately, I had to settle for a notebook from the shelves of Barnes and Noble's knockoff moleskine "style" notebooks. The drawback? My new notebook is lime green. Behold:
Posted by Dean at July 17, 2007 1:05 AM
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