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Saturday, September 28, 2013

tryouts for November

I typed as rapidly as possible to see which were best for speed work.









Friday, September 13, 2013

Where particular people congregate




This photo fails to illustrate my point, but there, at least, is half the street fair.


the handout.  it has a coupon on the other side.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Science Cafe


No one approached me at all with the typewriter, but I *was* in the side room, not the main seating area, and I was typing for only a couple of minutes at a time.

Here is a similar presentation by the same speaker from last year:
 The Art & Science of Reading

and here is that blog link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fontblog/

Saturday, September 7, 2013

garden ride


Here is a link to the route we rode, plus my side trip to the store and back after I spilled the cream that one of the gardens had set out for visitors.  Look on the lower right of the screen for pic I took along the way.

Friday, September 6, 2013

randomness

Just a couple of things from today.  


First, my ham license renewal came in the mail.  Hard to believe it's been 10 years already, all in the 21st century.

 Second, a slide rule came from shopgoodwill.  This is a Pickett 1010 SL-ES "Super Power Trig".  I hope I'm man enough for it. 


And lastly, to get back to typewriters, I saw a different trailer for the new movie "The Family" today and couldn't find it until the creepy targeted ads based on recent activity plopped it on my facebook feed.  So I clipped an image.   This trailer was the first I'd seen mentioning the MC's memoirs as a plot point.  It opens for half a second on his hands on a typewriter.  Because they are in France in the movie I thought it was a Japy, but the key shapes aren't quite right.  What do you think?


Tuesday, September 3, 2013

answer

The correct answer was Smith-Corona Vantage.  I sure wondered if the key design was an infringement on Olivetti's Praxis design.  




Here's a better-framed pic stolen (uncredited) from an ebay listing because turnabout's fair play.



Monday, September 2, 2013

Holiday Bikecast

beaver dam


beaver damage

frog
iced mocha

river

I went to Goodwill after, and found an electric typewriter I didn't bring home (besides being electric, I plugged it in and didn't get a hum so it was more a doorstop at that point, though I may have tried a dead outlet), but I thought it would be a good guessing game.  Who made it?  I'll save the revealing pic for next post.

First clue, here's the keyboard.

 second clue - ball element








Sunday, September 1, 2013

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