SlowRain Has Moved! See below.

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A Canadian expat ESL teacher in Taiwan, interested in books, coffee, movies, straight razors, rum...and rain.

Moved to: @SlowRain

Just testing the new Mastodon.Cloud. I'm using @SlowRain as my main account, but I may use this as my backup--unless I decide to split my personality & park part of it here. 😁

#Gogoro electric scooters offered a unique battery-swapping way to charge up. Then #Kymco announced the #Ionex, which offers 4 ways. Now Gogoro thinks it's being a hero by announcing a 2nd way, making it the "world's only dual system"...but they're still 2 behind the competition. They need to offer home chargers, too, if they hope to compete with Kymco's customer-friendly system.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3394548

#KymcoIonex

Taiwan motorcycle makers Gogoro and KYMCO compete with batteries | Taiwan News

Recharging electric scooters to be easier.Gogoro presented its mobile recharging system for electric scooters Friday, following a similar move by rival KYMCO.

In case something permanent happens to Mastodon.Cloud, I'm moving over to Mastodon.Social. My account there is @SlowRain. See you there.
@LN
I know Rhodia uses Clairefontaine paper. Does Rhodia have nicer notebooks, or are there other differences? How do Fabriano notebooks compare with Rhodia?
@dasmith
.Cloud has been up and down for the last several days. I created a backup account at @SlowRain to use when this instance goes down. I follow the same people over there as I do here.

@LN
I understood what you meant. Paper, like pens & inks, is a very personal thing. I think I'm in the minority preferring ivory/cream paper.

I don't write many letters. I bought some 68gsm cream Tomoe River. It's a bit thin for me, though.

@LN
I'm fine with the 90gsm paper. I actually prefer ivory/cream to white anyway. My preference for notebook would be Life (L!FE) Noble's in A4 (the blue cover), but Kiowa Pecan takes forever to dry on it, so Rhodia it is. Also, the color of the ink is richer with Rhodia paper.

https://mastodon.cloud/media/Z9FfMPU9r9Fk0I9XFNQ

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@LN How is MUJI for fountain pens?

Have you ever tried this Rhodia notebook: http://fournituresbureautiques.com/fb/prd/1437186/rhodia-cahier-souple-rhodiarama-taupe-form ?

@LN
OK. Thanks for the offer. I'll try to let Google Translate do as much of the legwork as possible so that I'm not constantly bothering you.

Either you're a pretty content expat, or else Canadian stores stock most of what you need. Most foreigners here have to order stuff online from overseas.

@LN
OK. One more quick question. Do you know of a website called FournituresBureautiques.com?