“Don’t be fooled, it’s just the Clark Kent of X3s, secretly wishing it was a superhero X3M.”

I have a habit of keeping everything, including my thoughts, on notes for a long time. However, after losing three of my notebooks last year when I moved to California, I started forcing myself to scan all my notes every night before sleeping. Scanning plus OCR is sufficient for saving and retrieving notes, but it is painful to roll the immense boulder up the hill like Sisyphus every night. So, I had the idea to digitalize my note-taking process.

I tried the iPad and Apple Pencil solution, but the writing experience was not quite good. The screen was too hard and slippery, and attaching a ‘paper-like cover’ on the screen made the display blurry, so I paused the plan. However, after a heavy giant book smashed me in the face while I was watching it in bed last week, I finally decided to order the ReMarkable 2 notebook.

Don’t ask me about my decision-making process… I bought it simply because The Verge gave it the highest rating (at least to me) among all the e-ink notebooks. I bought the ReMarkable 2 (USD 399), the pencil with an eraser (USD 99, and the funny thing is that I had to pay an extra 50 dollars to get the digital eraser… I miss the time when erasers were only 0.5 dollars each), and the polymer weaver folio from the official website. ReMarkable is very efficient, and I received all of my items only four days after I placed my order. They were shipped from China (of course…).

Before we begin, there are a few things we need to consider before selecting a keyboard:

Switches: The switch is located underneath the keycap and determines the tactile feel when you press down on a key.

Number of keys: Do you want a full-size keyboard with 104 keys, a tenkeyless keyboard with 87 keys (no number pad), or a compact 64-key keyboard with only letters and function keys?

Wired or wireless: Do you want a wired keyboard or a wireless one?

If you pronounce BMW out loud your hear “Bee Em Double You”. As with many things we like and I guess dislike, we tend to give cars shorter and easier to pronounce names, kind of to bring them closer to you and make them your own. So owners all over the world started giving these shortened personal names to the cars “Bimmers”.

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心水MadCatz的鼠标很久了,从R.A.T.5看到R.A.T.7又从M.O.U.S.9看到R.A.T.M。但即使是遇到了M.O.U.9八十刀的好价也没有入手,毕竟MadCatz没有用过,网上风评质量不稳定。于是一直一直拖着，直到双十一京东出现了199-40的特价。国行嘛，京东嘛，用的不爽毕竟还有退路。遂抓住机会入手了R.A.T.M。

其实一开始也没有特定要买哪只鼠标的，在我看来他们家的鼠标无非是长得像变形金刚和长得很像变形金刚两种。不过作为一只业余纠结症患者，下单前也在有线的R.A.T.5和R.A.T.M之间徘徊了许久。最后拦住准备回家的Fiona拍板购买R.A.T.M。

========好~接下来就是激(fa)动(wei)人(wu)心(qu)的开箱了~========

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自从刘大程序猿买了X100s，对我一直挂机的福伦达50/1.8的体积的怨念越来越大。以致这两天甚至想要暂时放弃“蓄谋已久”的单车购买计划，先行更换一只新的挂机头。刚好，趁着到处了解各种标头的机会，遍历一下我用过的那些标头。

先说说现役这只福伦达镜头。此头全称应该是Voigtlander Color-Ultron 50 1.8.（话说我对福伦达这个名字一直有种奇怪的偏爱，尤其喜欢它的花体logo）。据说当年禄来工厂失火搬到新加坡后就由福伦达代工，后来福家自己出了只小标头，用的便是禄来的技术。

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人生最大的矛盾就是金钱不足以支撑逼格