Holiday present for a politician
I’m a big fan of Pilot writing instrument—started using the V5 sign pen 15 years ago, and these days I always carry at least three Pilot VBall 0.5 pens. Today at the Pilot counter I saw this:
A Pilot Frixion pen with eraseable ink! Just rub the plastic tip against the writing and it vanishes.
The Pilot Frixion 0.7 retails for P77.00.
This is the perfect present for politicians who like to disavow any knowledge of their own deeds. It’s easier to erase a signature than a witness.
By the way, thanks to the Commission on Elections for enlightening us as to the real qualification for elective office: Money. Not principles or ideas or an actual program of action, just money. Well, “winnability”. Which is another way of saying, “Money!” Now we are rid of our silly illusions.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
December 18th, 2009 at 02:36
does the ink stick to the pinky – like how pencil lead does?
December 18th, 2009 at 17:31
my students made the mistake of using this pen for an exam. After the papers were passed, and hands rubbed against the writings, the answers disappeared. :(
December 19th, 2009 at 13:22
This is a perfect present for a computer programmer as well.
December 21st, 2009 at 14:50
JZ
I was curious about your thoughts on Anne Trubek’s Miller-McCune essay regarding the death of writing in longhand:
http://miller-mccune.com/culture_society/handwriting-is-history-1647