Uses

These are my favorite daily carry or go-to options:

Coding

  • IDE: Visual Studio, VS Code.
  • Monitor: Dual Dell 24” P2425E.
  • Keyboard: CODE V2B keyboard Cherry MX Brown (although Blue is my preference).
  • Mouse: Logitech M310.
  • Desk: UPLIFT Bamboo (60 x 30).
  • Chair: refurbished Steelcase Leap.

Cycling

  • Bicycle: 1997 LeMond Buenos Aires (racing/club rides), Lynskey GR Edge (gravel), 1985 Nishiki Prestige (tooling around).
  • Attire: Expensive bibs (Rapha/Assos), cheap jerseys (Weimostar/Hotlion), Club Ride shirts (for casual riding), Garneau Biogel Rx gloves, merino wool socks.

Implements

  • Fountain Pen: Kaweco BRASS Sport + Kaweko ink.
  • Pen: Rotring 600 + Schmidt or Rotring ballpoint cartridges (Fine).
  • Pencil: Vintage KOH-I-NOOR lead holders or Rotring 800 mechanical pencil (0.7mm for general use, 0.9mm for music notation).
  • Soldering Station: Hakko FX888D.
  • Calipers: Mitutoyo, Starrett.

Listening

  • Loudspeaker: JBL S38.
  • Headphones: Sony MDR-7506.
  • Portable Radio: Tecsun PL-880.
  • Streaming: Plex.

Mouthpiece Refacing

  • Feeler Gauges: Custom.
  • Glass Gauge: Vintage JJ Babbit (metric, non-offset).
  • Tip Gauge: Theo Wanne.
  • Work Surface: Lee Valley Tools 9” x 12” granite surface plate.

Music

  • Saxophone: Yanagisawa 992 tenor + silver neck + Stachelvarius Orca mouthpiece (.117), transitional Buffet Super Dynaction alto (S1 keywork) + Stachelvarius Orca mouthpiece (.092).
  • Trumpet: Conn Connstellation 28A long cornet + Curry 1.52TC mouthpiece (Conn shank).
  • Clarinet: Buffet R13 + Selmer mouthpiece refaced by Norbert Stachel.

Photography

  • Cameras (Digital): Pentax K-1 Mark II, Fujifilm X-T5, Ricoh GR II (RIP 💀).
  • Cameras (Film): Pentax ME Super, Canonet QL17 G-III.
  • Lenses: Pentax FA 43mm f/1.9 Limited, Soligor 35mm f/2.8, Minolta MC 58mm f/1.4, Fujifilm XF 23mm f/2.8.
  • Film: Ektar 100, Ilford Delta 400 Professional.

Recording

  • Microphone: Electro-Voice RE20.
  • Preamp: Sound Devices USBPre 2.

Softball

  • Bat: DeMarini Steel (30oz).

Software

  • Document Authoring: LibreOffice Writer (daily workhorse), LyX (for structured document design and TeX layout), Google Docs (lightweight collaboration).
  • Spreadsheets: LibreOffice Calc, Google Sheets.
  • Graphics & Vector: GIMP, Inkscape.
  • 3D CAD/CAM: Autodesk Fusion.
  • Music Notation: LilyPond, Frescobaldi (LilyPond editor).