[DRAGooN of deranged]

made a painfull discovery today.. if you ever want to stir a cup of coffee, NEVER use your wacom pen.. because you'll have to buy a new one after that *sob*

[faustgfx]

retard

[DRAGooN of deranged]

hmm.. i already feared that you would reply this one, faustgfx.. but i expected some other answer.. something like
"fuck you" or
"fuck you, moron" or
"don't put things into hot coffee except your cock" or
"fuck you, don't put things into hot coffee except your cock" or
fuck you, moron, don't put things into hot coffee except your cock"
or something like that..
anyway, pain strikes my heart whenever i think of my pen
what should i do the next few days until the new one arrives..
hell, i fear i have to make webdesigns the whole time..
live's a shitload of goddam fucking shit, especially mine *narf*

[DRAGooN of deranged]

farewell, little friend.. we sure meet again *sniff*

[faustgfx]

you shoulda used some common sense, your wacom pen doesn't work by magic or spirits you know..

[Lunatique]

Um, you wouldn't stir your coffee with a $40 Winsor Newton Series 7 brush, so why would you use your Wacom pen? Nevermind, maybe you DO use your painting brushes too. ...

[Chris]

i'm sorry..but.. LOL

that is pretty funny...

[faustgfx]

yeah, the paint left overs in the brush dissolving to the coffee must give a extra twisting kick for the slow mornings..

[FatPenguin]

quote:

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Originally posted by faustgfx:
you shoulda used some common sense, your wacom pen doesn't work by magic or spirits you know..

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really? does anyone know exactly how they do work?

[Impaler]

Yes.

[Jezebel]

Well... apparantly you can't stir hot spearmint tea with it either. When you said it didn't work with coffee I didn't really figure that applied to tea since you mixed in sugar and cream, while I used honey. Just a warning to everyone. Don't stir your hot tea with your wacom pen or it won't work I'm not sure if this goes for all types of tea or just spearmint.

[Lunatique]

That would be the most expensive coffee stir stick ever.

[balistic]

I asked Dan of dansdata.com how he thought a tablet stylus worked:

"Some kind of strain sensor (I know - duh :-). I'm not an authority, but I
think it'd probably be a piezoelectric one - a little piezoelectric chunk
that deforms very little under strain, but produces a voltage when it's
compressed and a reverse voltage when it's released again. Track the
voltage curve and you know how much pressure it's under at any given time."

The stylus receives it operating voltage via an array of wires in the tablet. The two elements talk to each other at 50 Hz.

Go to his site and check out the Graphire review, very informative.

[DRAGooN of deranged]

damn right, but since the pen is already dead, why not "recycle" him? ,)

i mean.. the pen died to stir my coffee.. why shouldn't he do that beyond his death until eternity..
*narf* .. need to sleep.. already starting to build personal relations between me and my tools.. not good.. ack..

[Vgta]

anyone know if the same results happen when you stir cold drinks?.....

Maybe if you hang it up to dry the electronic faeries will resurrect it. Then again.

[roundeye]

BAHAHA dude i have a similar story, not so dumb on my part but similar. i allways used to flip mine in the air and catch it. all day every day for years, like david letterman. one day like a month ago it came straight down into the neck of a full beer! hahaha they dont sell pens in canada and wacom dosent sell pens to canada. i had to pay a third party company to import one. cost me like $80 with tax and duty and shipping etc. ok maybe it does involve similar levels of stupidity.=)

[A.Buttle]

That is extremely dull.

[PandaX52]

...no offence or anything, but even when I'm hald-dead in the morning, there is still a little part of my brain functioning that says: "hey, don't put your pen in that cup of coffee, it was expensive, and using YOUR FINGER would be more cost effective!!!!(!)"

heh...

[Frost]

Hmm, before tossing the pen away, (if it's not too late), I would let it soak and stir a few minutes in very hot water, to dissolve whatever might have gotten the pen screwed, then letting it dry. It's worth a try...

[Francis]

Funny you should bring this up. I was in a similar situation not too long ago, where I had to stir a drink and all I had available was my wacom pen, a lamp and a coffee stir stick. I didn't want to use the coffee stick because I had just been rummaging around in my ear with it (yes both ends). I knew that the piezoelectric in the tip of the pen was not sealed, and that exposure to a hot brown liquid would probably adversely affect its function. I also knew that it was theoretically possible to generate a magnetic field of sufficient intensity to repel almost any particle that exhibited any sort of magnetic charge. With that in mind, I looked through my desk to see if I had any parts available to modify my pen so that it could withstand a few seconds exposure to boiling bean squeezins without suffering catastrophic failure.

I pulled out my recent issue of Journal of Theoretical Applications of Quantum Thermodynamic Anomalous Phenomena and turned to the article on sub-c beta flux inversions. I thought I had recalled seeing a derivation of a formula based on Remundra's theorem that allowed for the possibility of catalyzing a subatomic tunneling effect by exciting the electrons of the outer orbitals of certain polymorphic long chain carbon and sulfur containing molecules. If the excitation energy was created using a high output laser with an iso-6,6,4 molybdenum based field generator, a previously unrecorded phenomenon would result. In layman's terms, basically the Friedling-Norman effect would negate the anticipated Remundra quantum field inversion, allowing the quantum interference from outer orbital electrons to resolve into a non-linear energy state. I'm sure you see where I'm going with this!

Now at the time I didn't have easy access to a laser, nuclear magnetic resonance scanner or even a mass chromatograph. Instead I had to improvise with a few extra double A batteries, a Biore nose strip, six pennies and my cat. Without going into too much boring detail, I was able to synthesize a sort of jerry rigged Friedling-Norman effect, and direct it (using the right hand rule of course) along the main axis of the pen. It was unstable because the cat wouldn't sit still, but I was able to maintain it for enough time for me to stir my coffee. After that, I had to unhook the cat and disassemble the effect generator in reverse order (you know what happens when you mess up the order of disassembly of a Friedling-Norman effect generator!), and I even had some charge left in the batteries.

The pennies were toast though.

[Frost]

I tried that very same thing once, but failed. As a result, my cat hasn't approached me since. Eh, great minds think alike I guess.

[Akolyte]

I dropped my pen in my heater duct once, thank god for metal hangars and shipping tape.

[sacrelicious]

"...And one time, at Art Camp, I stuck my WACOM pen up my pussy."

[Roark1138]

Other no-no's missing from your Wacom box:

#3005) Using the interface cable to swing/spin your Wacom Tablet above your head may cause damage.

#3006-A) Do not tenderize steak or chicken on your Wacom Tablet's drawing surface.

#3006-B) Do not use your Wacom Tablet as a tenderizing tool for any meat product.

#3007) Though it may fit, fully inserting your Intuos Pen up either nostral is not recommended.

#3008) Never use your Wacom Tablet as the inner lining in your cat's litter box.

[ June 07, 2001: Message edited by: Roark1138 ]

[Lunatique]

I used to always carry the wacom pen around with me as I take breaks or discuss the project at hand with co-workers. And, then I'd need to jot something down on paper, and get all frustrated because the stupid pen won't write...

[ June 07, 2001: Message edited by: Lunatique ]

[fruitclam]

Francis: That brings to mind the time you channeled the flux matrix chamber wires down the wrong end of a the main Crubler harnessing vent. Talk about an embrassing noise!! LOL. But seriously, I rank the Freiling-Norman state switch trick as the most underrated physical challenge a young scientist can undertake. I mean, you make it sound so simple Francis, but dealing with the Burkenbalm exhibitor particals is no picnic. I had to scrub my bathtub with steel wool for 3 hours just to get the smell out last time I tried it, and that tub is type T modified Procelane!

Good work Francis! And you owe that cat bigtime.

[Francis]

Fruitclam -

I knew you'd bring that up. You're never going to let me live that one down are you? How was I supposed to know that the harnessing vent was using a metric valve array instead of an English one? I mean, metric is easier of course when all your units are in SI anyway, and I should've realized when I spent the extra 2 hours converting Bingbing's constant into feet-lbs(squared) per angstrom-weeks, but I guess I was too deep into the zone.

As far as the Friedling-Norman state switch trick goes, I'd have to agree. I don't know why it isn't a standard part of the undergraduate curriculum at this point. There have been plenty of empirical evidence and successful lab recreations to show that it isn't an isolated, anomalous event. Plus, it can be done with off the shelf products, although you do run into the tricky ethical dilemma where the cats (or other suitable mammals of approximately the same density) are concerned.

I remember the tub - don't forget I helped you harvest the cryo-splinters all week to set up that cursed T modification. Good times.

[Impaler]

Actually, a cryo-splinter (layman's term for microtemporal dynamic fission) occurs when the certain sub-periodic particles' relative energy half-life phases itself out to .321346 kelvins above absolute zero (by Yung's theoretical zero-vibrance dynamo concordance models, anyway), creating a physical flux of about 13 atoms per hertz per hertz. However, given that the expansion constant of the universe can only be quantified as f(g)=Sub x b(x-1/2^q/p^x)/tan450^Gx+Tx by the f(p) = x3.4r, with r remaining a Newtonian floating variable, except when r = .32, Cryo-splinters, as they were, can only truly exist in a reverse vacuum, which, can only exist when the outward force of x is equal to the inward force of -x^2, which then usually defects into another quasi-dimensional, synchronous with the relative resonant barriers of our own. Theoretically, the mere concurrence of this microcosm should coutnerbalance the own dimensional exertation of our universe, and just like light cancelling out dark, or subquantum variations phasing out superquantum perhelions, the two should destroy each other.

So, basically, cryo-splinters are plum hard to create!! Ahuk!

[ June 07, 2001: Message edited by: Impaler ]

[Dryfire]

nah, its just magic

[Dthind]

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Originally posted by faustgfx:
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