Weapon of Choice: “Ghost Chocolate” 1957 Olympia SM3 #998587 The HotRod Typewriter’s Olympia SM Adjustment Tutorial Videos! Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 3.5: Part 4: Part 4.5: Part 5:
Category: From the Desk of Reverend Munk
Typecasts from the desk of the Right Reverend Theodore Munk
Mail Call & Thriftin’ Report
I thought this might be some sort of ciphertext, but was too lazy to think about it too much. :D Panasonic RR-830 Transcription Cassette Recorder! I once had the microcassette version of this, with the same foot controller, but I gave it to Goodwill a year or two before microcassettes became cool in the Typosphere. […]
Mail Call: The Bulgarian Connection
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Silver Strands of Mercury
…and so I sat in the darkness, listening to the world outside the walls… Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Hot Mailbox on a Frosty Evening
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Mail Call: Two More Letters and Blog Post Binders for 2023
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Mail Call: One Letter Out and Two Letters In
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Mail Call: April Showers Bring Western Type-Ins
Susan’s Italic Congress Everest K3 Currently in the earholes:
New Colors and The Fall (not at all what you’re thinking, I promise)
Weapon of Choice: 1962 Groma Kolibri N #N43143 Currently in the eyeholes: It’s sort of a “Thousand and One Arabian Nights” kind of story in a way, where a desperate, suicidal paralyzed stunt man befriends an 8-year old immigrant fruit picker in the hospital which they are recuperating from falls in around the 1920’s. The […]
Mail Call: Sweet Nectar of INSPIRATION
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Mail Call: Mailbox be HONGRY! :D
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Straight to The Moon, Alice!
VIPER will be NASA’s first robotic Moon rover. It will embark on a mission to the lunar South Pole region to trek into permanently shadowed areas and unravel the mysteries of the Moon’s water. VIPER will be the first rover to measure the location and concentration of water ice and other resources. These resources could […]
The Ennui That Comes When You Have Made a Typewriter Perfect
So what about those machines that are not perfect like my JP-1’s? Joe has an opinion on that today :D Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Here’s all that Christmas mail!
Lucas’ Polaroid: A naked Kolibri, a mini-Nagra, a Hasselblad and a Bonsai tree: Currently in the eyeholes: John Carpenter‘s “In the Mouth of Madness” Mini-Review: part of the Apocalypse Trilogy that also includes “Prince of Darkness” and “The Thing“. I really dig PoD because it’s a thought-provoking Sci-Fi Horror Comedy, sort of, and “The Thing” […]
Mail Call: Feel Good Skin Club edition!
At first I thought “WMS & CO” was the stationery shop where the set came from, and marveled that the set came in a hand-made box. I dug a bit and found out that no, the box is just a generic storage box, albeit a $35 hand-made generic storage box that happens to fit the […]
Christmas Day Eve
Weapon of Choice: 1962 Triumph Perfekt #3061978 In the earholes on Christmas Day Eve:
Mail Call: Season’s Greetings & Vintage Videogames on Period-Correct Hardware
New refurbished drives for the Beige Box AMD K6-III Always a good idea to open up these old drives and clean & regrease. 91% Isopropyl to clean the drive heads & motor screw shaft, White Lithium Grease for the screw and other friction-bearing bits. All of this just to play the classic 1997 Voxel-rendered “Blade […]
Mail Call: ETCetera Magazine and Christmas Greetings!
Get yours now! Currently in the earholes;
24x Max 2 The MAX! 1997 CD-ROM Drive refurb!
Well, guess I voided *that* warranty! :D This one looks about the right size – a tiny bit smaller, but that’s prolly exactly right, accounting for the stretched condition of the old belt. OK, let’s power it up and make sure it works! Currently in the earholes:
UJTU: Dance, Typebars, Dance!
Weapon of Choice: 1946 Royal Quiet De Luxe #A-1218244 Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Guth-hounds Nippin’ at me Heels!
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Mail Call: Synchronized Letters & Blog Posts!
myoldtypewriter : Old Dog, New Tricks National Postal Museum Want 200 free cancelled stamps? Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: And THREE Shall Be The Number Of The Counting…
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UJTU: Past Chops & Might as well build my Christmas Letter (:
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Correspondence Update: Digitizin’ Yer Letters & Episode 18 Now Available!
An example directory for a prolific Correspondent. Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call from Friend Roman, Countryman! :D
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Newest Improvements in the Austin Selectric Rescue 3D Printed Selectric Elements!
Austin Selectric Rescue’s 3D Printed Selectric typeballs
Mail Call: Answers Postponed for Kidney Stones
More options for Alphasmart Dana Battery Life
Typecast bit typed on Alphasmart Dana and injected into a Photoshop 7 document for formatting with Richard Polt’s “Patrician” font and printed on a laser printer, then stamped & chopped & pasted up onto newsprint along with a thermal printout photograph taken on a toy camera from reader Gregory. Having fun with a $5 bag […]
Mail Call: Polt Chops!
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Correspondence: Episode 17 – Edition Especiale!
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Correspondence Upgrade: Vintage CD/DVD Copying Tower
Small but *very dense* with mid-oughties quality components. Dunno if the white DVD drive is a later replacement or what. Now that I ponder it, tho – the model number is “2DVDN80G” which suggests it was originally equipped with just *2* burners, with the third one added later as an upgrade. That also suggests that […]
Kaiju Big Battel: Terebi Sento!
http://www.kaiju.com/mall_dvd.htm https://www.youtube.com/user/KaijuOfficial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju_Big_Battel Currently in the eyeholes: Just remember: “Danger CAN HAPPEN!”
Mail Call: Guth’s Printin’ Machine Back In Business && Tasty CHOPs
The stamps scanned above have gold and silver metallic embedded art, but my scanner renders anything reflective as black, so there ya are. /: Currently in the earholes: (sometimes yah brain gotta take a hard left turn into silliness after a dream like Episode 16…) Ha! Just kidding, I’m actually listening to this, which is […]
Mail Call: Flair Game and The Night of the Living DJ
Well, I guess I broke the seal on Season Two… Currently in the earholes: