Regeneration of writing materials
This approach is not novel at all (i.e. not eligible for a patent). However, it has been increasingly inconvenient for me to purchase new writing materials since the beginning of 2020, I'd like to share my approach here, licensed under GNU GPL v3 or later.
Materials: plastic sheet, soap, (dye-type) ink, scientific brush pen with replaceable cartridges
Method: apply a thin layer of soap on the surface of the plastic sheet. Write or paint on the sheet with your scientific brush pen. The cartridge can be refilled using a syringe. When you finished writing or painting, wash everything on the plastic sheet away and re-apply soap on its surface. The trick here is that soap is amphiphilic, so it coats the plastic surface and absorbs ink.
I have taken to using stone and chisel.
My closest neighbors seem to be using some sort of cheap wax tablets instead, but durability is paramount imho.
There was a material named LIMEX (https://tb-m.com/en/limex/about/) made from limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3) to replace part of paper or plastics.
A few sheets should be enough for me. Write on them using a pencil and erase.
Stone tablets are too short-lived. I write my novels directly into the earth's crust. Geologists call them the "Nazca lines of Peru". This one is part of my best-selling novel, "Tall Dog with Many Fingers and WiFi Antenna Tail".
This one is from my other best-selling novel, "Carpenter Ants from Hell". It was made into a major Hollywood motion picture starring Humphrey Bogart and Brigitte Bardot.
> Stone tablets are too short-lived.
Agreed.
In hindsight, we should consider the Earth to be relatively short-lived too. I have now taken to encapsulating content into interstellar dust clouds.
Next time you read something about a Sahara sand cloud over Europe, in fact it will more probably be my shopping list floating around. We still have a minor density problem to solve before we start marketing the technique.
> In hindsight, we should consider the Earth to be relatively short-lived too. I have now taken to encapsulating content into interstellar dust clouds.
Good point. Rather than insterstellar dust clouds, you could simply write your shopping lists into the matrix that makes up the framework for the simulation that we call reality. Then your shopping list would be with you wherever you went.
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And they slept much better without a shopping list, forever after.
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I usually use a pen called a magic pen to write down my passwords. This pen can be purchased for $1.
The tip of this pen is equipped with a black light illuminator device, which makes it impossible to recognize the characters written with this pen as normal characters. Those characters cannot be seen with the function of human vision.
This means that even if someone were to break into your house and look for your password, or even if your dementia-stricken grandfather were to invade your bathroom while you were bathing under the guise of innocence, they would not be able to see your password unless they were equipped with a black light.
Or Or it might be interesting to record their sequence of actions they search for your password while shining a black light, to post the movie to YouTube, or somewhere if it matters.
By the way, since you are the only obvious American I know on this forum, Andy, I would like to ask you, which is the ideal spelling of between "Mangar-Senpai" and "Manger-Senpai" when a normal native English speaker sees this spelling and pronounces these? The ideal spelling means, that if I were to force myself to write it in English phonetic symbols, it would be [mʌŋɑːsenpaɪ]. The accent is on the first letter [mʌ], the rest is pronounced mostly flat. Or should I spell it something else for it to be pronounced correctly?
By the way, there is a snowboarding brand called GNU Snowboards.
I usually sign any official papers with the same 0.5 ballpoint black liquid ink pen that I use for completing them. Unfortunately, some overzealous administration employees have started rejecting such documents as copies, on the ground that they are monochrome. One of these servants of Leviathan even started passing their index over the signature and pretended that it had to be a copy because that place was "too smooth" (sic) for the document to be an original.
It really feels that something must be wrong when you hand an original form that you have completed and signed yourself, only to be told that it is, in fact, a copy. I had to swear on a number of gods and goddesses before they reluctantly accepted my version of reality.
Now I understand why some have taken to signing their legal filings in document proof blue ink.