Un-PC thought for the day:

what's with Asians and mechanical pencils? I mean, in class, half the time when you look at an Asian kid taking notes, he or she is using a mechanical pencil. Especially the recent immigrants. And they'll have weird types of mechanical pencils that you've never seen before. Not just your typical Pentels or Papermate's. At the UC Berkeley bookstore they've got like 20 different types of mechanical pencil leads to choose from. I bought a mechanical pencil the other week just to see if if they've hopped-up the mechanical pencil technology. Bought a Jap pencil called the "NIJI-GRIP 700." Naw, mechanical pencils still suck.