Weapon of Choice: 1983 Brother EP-22. Until I actually picked one up, I thought that the Brother EP-20 and EP-22 were the same size. Turns out, while the top shell for both was clearly pressed from the same mold, the bottom shell on the EP-22 is almost a quarter inch deeper than the EP-20. It […]
Month: May 2020
Solving the Alphasmart Dana’s Insatiable Appetite for AA Batteries…
Weapon of Choice: 2003 Alphasmart Dana Wireless (ha!) There’s a calculus you get to know when you own an Alphasmart Dana and you want to write on it, but you have so many other wonderfully tactile writing machines that you really don’t get to pull out the Dana often enough to justify keeping a set […]
Just another weirdness in a world awash with bad craziness.
Ugh, I’ve been getting repeated calls on my burner phone this morning, all with a recording of some woman jabbering at me in Chinese while piano jazz plays in the background. It’s unsettling because I read Stephen King’s “Cell” not long ago, and the obvious associations of a virus being transmitted over cell phones tickled […]