Month: May 2018
Phoenix Type-In for National Typewriter Day, Sunday June 24, 2018 – Even Though NTD is actually on the 23rd
While the Typewriter Day post on The Typosphere blog went neglected after 2014 (but it’s nice to go back and see the videos from 2011), Typewriter Day on June 23rd has still been suitably celebrated across the globe. This year, it appears the Phoenix celebration will happen the day after, on the 24th: I’m a […]
Vintage Typewriter Hunter Multimedia box
I noted in my last post that I was pondering loading a fun Linux onto one of the Core 2 Duos for the Type-In, I meant AMD Turions, actually: Weapon of Choice: 2008 HP Pavilion dv6815nr 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 4gb DDR2 SDRAM, 120gb SSD, 1280×800 15.4″ WXGA screen Nvidia GeForce Go […]
Chandler Type-In – Saturday June 9, 2018
YES! {insert air guitar solo, a really ripping Glenn Branca style cacophony of multi-layered atonal scream backed with tube amplifier harmonics and subsonic bass.} Why am i so happy, you ask? The Quirky Qwerty, previously known as Jeremiah, (but now that he has joined the ranks of the Typosphere, he gets his chosen Typecaster Name, […]
Staplers, Stapling Machines & Fasteners – Volume 1, a Review
Ooh, look what came in the mail today! This is a book I’ve been waiting a few months for, and it’s been very much worth the wait. I wrote a bit about this project before, when I’d seen an earlier, incomplete version of the manuscript, and I was quite excited about it then. Now that […]
Five Years Later: update on Using WD-40 to bring an old typewriter ribbon back to life!
Original post, and how to re-ink an old typewriter ribbon with WD-40. This 1970 Royal Sprite @TWDB