Pencil Videos
American Libraries Direct, the e-newsletter of the ALA, mentioned the below video about golf pencils. It expalins where golf pencils came from, but not why! But it's still a fun little video, and while I was poking around, I found a couple of other very entertaining pencil themed videos. Hope you enjoy!
Short Pencil Saga
The World Championship of Illegal Pencil Fighting
"pencil test" - Apple Computer 1988
Short Pencil Saga
The World Championship of Illegal Pencil Fighting
"pencil test" - Apple Computer 1988
Labels: Fun Vids
posted by Vampire Librarian at 4:51 PM
9 Comments:
I had that computer (in Pencil Test)! I wrote my thesis on it.
Actually I still have it, I just never turn it on anymore. I'm clinging to the vain hope that one day a museum will want it and I won't have to worry about disposing of it properly.
Have you ever noticed that golf pencils smell like pee?
Um, no...Where are you keeping your golf pencils?
I hate those golf pencils. I orginally liked the library where I work because we didn't have golf pencils -- we gave our patrons real pencils. Apparently it got too expensive though because we've just recently gone to golf pencils.
Katya,
I used to have to buy the golf pencils for my library. They were expensive compared to dirt cheap regular pencils.
I think the driving force behind golf pencils is their unappealing qualities. Libraries don't want to set out nice stuff because then it will be taken, but I think we've proven over the years, that no matter what we do set out, it will be taken.
The golf pencils are more expensive than the regular pencils? I always assumed we started buying the golf pencils because they were cheaper AND uglier -- I didn't know we were buying them just so people would leave our pencils in the library.
Well, I had to purchase them through a contracted vendor, who then purchased them from another vendor, so who knows how much they originally cost.
I got my library to pony up for inscribed full size pencils. Unfortunately I did not order the pre-sharpened variety (which cost about $.01 more) so now I spend a lot of time at work sharpening pencils. When I get peeved with the student workers I make them sharpen pencils.
You have my sympathy, that sounds like a big pain in the ass, but does sounds like an excellent work study punishment.
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