{"id":191,"date":"2010-01-17T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2011-09-07T03:41:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T10:41:55","slug":"wallet-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/01\/17\/wallet-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallet pens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of things I lamented when <a class=\"unemphasized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/09\/06\/goodbye-treo\/\">I replaced my Treo with a Pre<\/a> was that since the Pre uses a capacitive touchscreen, it doesn&#8217;t use a stylus, so I no longer had my Treo&#8217;s combination stylus\/ballpoint pen wherever I went.  There have been numerous times where the pen came in handy, and after I switched to the Pre, there have been numerous times where I&#8217;ve found myself not having a pen when I needed one.  I&#8217;ve been looking for a good wallet pen as a substitute but haven&#8217;t found anything appealing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewalletpen.com\/\"><em>The<\/em> Wallet Pen<\/a>&#8212;the one recommended by Oprah&#8212;is $50 (a 3-pack costs a staggering $125).  I think Oprah must be one of the few people who thinks it&#8217;s affordable.  If I put that in my wallet, it&#8217;d be the most valuable thing in it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.derringerpen.com\/\">The Derringer Pen<\/a> is much cheaper at $8 (a 5-pack costs $32), although that still seems expensive to my inner miser.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barryfarber.com\/foldz.html\">The FoldzFlat pen<\/a> is a cheap plastic pen for $2 (or $25 for a stainless version) that folds into the form factor of a thick credit card.  This is the right price, but my wallet has enough credit card-sized things in it already.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last week the obvious occurred to me: I could carry the stylus\/pen from my Treo in my wallet. <em>Duh.<\/em> It&#8217;s thin, it has a sturdy metal barrel, and it even has a cap.  It doesn&#8217;t have a clip, but I think that&#8217;s okay since a clip would add to the bulk.  I think it&#8217;s thinner than either the Wallet Pen or the Derringer pen.  It fits easily but snugly into the bill compartment of my wallet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/images\/201001.wallet_pen\/stylus.jpg\" class=\"unemphasized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/images\/201001.wallet_pen\/stylus.th.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Thumbnail of combination stylus\/pen\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The price is reasonable: it&#8217;s effectively free for me since I bought a 3-pack of them years ago, but normally a 3-pack costs around $10&#8211;15.  It&#8217;s a third-party accessory, and there are various companies that produce and sell different versions for different PDAs, so it&#8217;s possible to shop around too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of things I lamented when I replaced my Treo with a Pre was that since the Pre uses a capacitive touchscreen, it doesn&#8217;t use a stylus, so I no longer had my Treo&#8217;s combination stylus\/ballpoint pen wherever I went. There have been numerous times where the pen came in handy, and after I switched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-rantsraves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}