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I Want to Believe

March 16, 2026

A while back, I posted about a pencil I've been looking for since approximately 2004. If you happened to read that post, maybe you thought I was kidding.

I wasn't. This a mostly earnest search for a long-lost pencil.

So here is my quarterly reminder of the pencil, with the hope that anyone who reads this post joins in the hunt.

My memory of the pencil is this: it was a round silver pencil with writing that said "NEW MILLENNIUM PENCIL" in larger black letters and "Y2K" a bunch of times in smaller letters. Here's a drawing I made of it:

The drawing still does not seem quite right. Maybe it's the font. I remember it being sort of pixely. Or maybe it's the eraser. Was it actually black or white?

Part of me also wonders if there was some type of computer graphic on the pencil, or maybe a little Y2K bug. I'm not sure. Nothing is off the table, so a pencil that almost matches the drawing or description could still be a winner. I'll know it when I see it.

It's out there somewhere. Have you seen this pencil?