u/diligentfalconry71

I was on a BER-AMS Cityhopper the other day and noticed this blue LED on the side panel of one of the aisle seats, row 31 iirc. It was mostly out, sometimes briefly solid (say, up to a minute or so at a time), and sometimes blinking in an intermittent way (no pattern that I could puzzle out). I did see another seat about 6 rows further up that also intermittently blinked, but not at the same time. Definitely not a call light. Does anyone know what they are for? The only thing I could guess of was that it is part of the emergency exit lighting, but then I would think it wouldn’t be active during normal flight, or if it was a wonky one then it probably wouldn’t be two of them being wonky. Tried googling and just got a million seatmaps (and learned the fun trivia that apparently the Embraer cityhoppers don’t get names like the bigger planes, which seems a bit like the fun police have expanded their jurisdiction unfairly). TIA.

I was innocently swatching some inks that I got last weekend at the Dutch Pen Show. Set one bottle down on my swatch book as a paperweight, turned away for thirty seconds to get my hole-puncher for my swatch cards, and…. that happened.

I have never bought a FWP ink, this was a goodie-bag gift. I’ve heard everyone talk about the terrible bottles but wow. I admit I put the bottle sideways, because I thought it would be more stable, but I tried to make sure it was completely closed! It made a little clicky ratcheting sound like it was closed!! Man oh man. Luckily I had a couple of rags at hand to mop it up, and I cleaned off my swatch book and pens as best I could, but I’m so grateful for my fake-leather desk pad. At least it’s a really light pastel.