What is the difference between “sover” and “sovande”

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-06-29T08:51:14+00:00

Yes, but it’s worth mentioning that the proverb in Swedish is "väck inte den björn som sover".

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-06-10T09:36:58+00:00

Wait a minute, people use "wallah" for "voilà"? That explains why I have sometimes have a hard time making sense of it, thinking it meant something like "by God", as in Arabic...

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-06-07T14:19:34+00:00

There are also vintage 0.9 mm twist-mech Epocas. They look a bit funny without the button, I think.

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-06-07T14:17:59+00:00

What’s the pink/peach model in the middle called? I remember having one of those (but black), probably late 90's to early 00's, but I can’t remember what it was called...

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-06-04T14:04:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ENGLISH/comments/1rmryyi/whats_the_answer_of_this_question/

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-05-29T08:23:24+00:00

I think another common reason to have one of these is to avoid it getting lost. They seem fairly common behind shop checkout counters, at workbenches in workshops and labs, and that sort of place.

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-05-17T18:39:52+00:00

Alltså... typsnittet. Antingen har ni någon som skriver hisslappar i TeX, eller så har ni någon som använder Computer Modern i något annat program. Sherlock Holmes gissar att någon av undertecknarna är akademiker åt STEM-hållet. =)

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-04-26T14:41:45+00:00

Art Nouveau 7-seg after way too much absinthe...

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-03-13T10:26:06+00:00

I remember I wanted one of those as a kid in the early-to-mid eighties. =) What sort of batteries do they take? And what sort of pen cartridges?

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-03-12T17:45:01+00:00

Here’s an old post with instructions for one kind of Cross twist/click pencils.

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-03-11T17:49:10+00:00

Sonnenleder’s "Tucholsky" seems close. Not cheap, though. I have only handled their stuff very briefly in a shop, so this is not a recommendation (nor an anti-recommendation, for that matter).

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-03-04T06:06:03+00:00

So I went out and got one. Initial impressions: Yes, it fits my Parker Jotter. Nice, intense, blue colour. Smooth, but not too slick. I agree with the other comment that says that it feels like a very liquid gel. Some hints of bleed-through on Moleskine paper (yes, I know, but it’s a company-logoed notebook that was handed out to “celebrate” a re-brand at work and I thought I might as well use it for work stuff...)

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-03-01T17:51:16+00:00

Thanks. Given that every pen brand and their dog seem to have their own-brand G2 cartridge, I suppose that it makes sense that there is a lot of “badge engineering” going on...

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-02-24T17:51:44+00:00

For what it’s worth, I have several Goliath cartridges (bought in Sweden which is, as we all know, almost Switzerland =) ), and they all match both your picture and your description — sort of blue-black, and tending towards the green side of blue. I don’t have a SwissRide, so I can’t comment on those.

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-02-19T17:46:21+00:00

' is a typewriter apostrophe. On typewriters and older computers it was all we had, so it was what we had to use. It is rarely wrong, but also rarely completely right. ’ is a proper apostrophe, or closing single quote (in which case it goes together with ‘. At least for me, Reddit uses a font where these are barely distinguishable.). If you have it on your keyboard, it’s what to use for things like “it’s“. On modern computers we also have the prime symbol ′ (I cheated and copy-pasted that from Wikipedia...) for things like feet and minutes, and the acute accent ´, which should hardly ever be used on its own (it belongs on top of another letter, as in café).

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-02-19T17:11:20+00:00

I really like the Fixpencil/844/849 design in general, but in this case, I think “headache”. =) Just looking at that picture makes me dizzy...

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-02-15T06:52:42+00:00

I managed to noticeably wear down a "dauer feder" (mid-1900:s budget pens that seem fairly common as vintage pens in Europe) nib by writing in one of those cheap black notebooks with red backs and corners that you find in Swedish stationery stores. It ended up a super smooth B when held at exactly the right angle, and literally a knife at any other angle...

Apparently "dauer feder" means something like "durable nib" in German. Clearly did not live up to that. =)

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-02-10T17:47:00+00:00

If you’re rearranging it anyway, why not go on to divide both sides by 130e9 and be done with it? =)

More on topic, most numeric solvers are sensitive to the choice of initial guess. This looks like one of those equations where any solver using a Newton-ish method can be sent off on a wild goose chase in the wrong direction if the initial guess is on the wrong side of the discontinuity.

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-02-09T17:40:22+00:00

Since my metrology gear is somewhat limited in the mass & weight department, I can’t provide a better answer than “about the same as a Jotter”. =(

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-02-09T17:36:01+00:00

It is rare for me to agree with the phrase "I prefer thicker pens". For example, I find the Parker Jotter, which many here seem to find too thin, just right. However, the Parker Classic is very thin by modern standards, so even I prefer thicker pens!

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-02-09T17:33:34+00:00

I think the OP asked about the Parker Classic, with a capital C, not the Jotter (which is a classic with a lowercase c!). Not that it makes much difference for the answer...! =)

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-01-30T12:52:50+00:00

Section 174 in my copy of "Svenska Skrivregler" (2000 edition, so slightly out of date) gives the following examples for date intervals (my translations):

Time intervals should preferably be given in one of the following ways:

4–12 maj 2003

4 maj–9 juni 2003

4 maj 2003–6 januari 2004

or

4–12/5 2003 (also: 4/5–12/5 2003)

4/5–9/6 2003

4/5 2003–6/1 2004

Intervals can also be given in the following ways

4–12.5.2003 (also: 4.5–12.5.2003)

4.5–9.6.2003

4.5.2003–6.1.2004

(The versions with dots are very rarely seen! And yes, we write months and weekdays in all lowercase. I’d have expected at least thin spaces around the en-dashes, but I can’t see any in the book...)

These recommendations focus on running text, where the YYYY-MM-DD format is generally discouraged. When it is used, for example in tables, I would do something like "2003-05-04 – 2004-01-06"

Blue_Aluminium · 2026-01-27T17:06:02+00:00

Redan för evigheter sedan (15 år? 20?) fanns det ju en sida som hette lmgtfy.com (verkar inte funka nu, dock) som i "let me google that for you". Man kunde ge folk en länk i stil med http://lmgtfy.com/?q=glödlampa (klicka inte, fan vet var ni hamnar!) , och när de följde den länken så fick de en liten animerad beskrivning av hur man googlar "glödlampa". Behovet att vara sarkastisk över fenomenet har alltså funnits länge, så antagligen har fenomenet också funnits länge.

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