To Type, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth...

At first, I thought the serial was 16832, mainly because “1912” was written on one of the swing arms of the machine, but then I noted that the segment wasn’t the early-style ball bearing type, so re-checked and found it was a 1918 model (168320). A couple years ago, I ordered a part for a […]

I had just commented on his Selectric 721 video that I was hoping one of the letters he was writing on Gandalf the Grey (the 10-pitch 721 that I gave to Kevin and Kevin passed on to Joe to be transplanted into his blue shell) was going to be headed my way, and it arrives […]

Weapon of Choice: 1976 Smith Corona Galaxie Twelve #6MLC 556348 H Allrighty, let’s see where we left off. Let’s get that cover off. These latter Galaxie 12’s are usually spotless inside, Nobody’s doused it in WD-40 or *anything*. The soundproofing panels are by now made of some non-shedding stuff, and probably were case queens after […]

Currently in the eyeholes: This seems relevant to the day: “Bust a deal, face the WHEEL!” -Aunty Entity

So, I was just loading the new AntiX 23.2 on my old 2003 Toshiba Portege M200, and as usual I re-check the vitals of the machine to ensure the label is still correct, and what do I find under the RAM stick door??? Just goes to show that you can ignore reality, but you can […]

“Four Eyes” by Correspondent GJK. I was only saddled with glasses after 40, and then only for close-up work, so my experience with them is mostly irritation at not having them when I need them. I suppose it’s quite different when you need them at a much younger age. Just another annoying variable in that […]

Currently in the eyeholes: From a recently viewed Youtube video – I felt a strong urge to click off here because there’s something about tangled typebars in the background that just makes me squirm restlessly…

So I found my little “Taiwan Telephone Pickup” that I had bought at Radio Shack in the 1990’s, an induction microphone at the end of a rubber sucker that you’d suction onto an oldschool telephone handset when you wanted to record a call. No respectable Crank Yanker would be without one back then, but being […]

No mail in awhile so I designed and ordered some new stampers, including larger chop stamps for Type Pals lucky enough to mail me while I have them in stock. I’ll have to see if they’re better than the 1/4″ square ones.I redesigned the Mail Call stampers for single-color stamping, as I’m using 3 stampers […]

Well, I took all these photos on the toy “Loopy Peace” camera and gave out the resulting thermal photos, which was fun. These are the color digital copies that the camera saves on the card. They’re pretty awful, but here they are, mixed in randomly with typings gathered up after the event in a sort […]

Currently in the Eyeholes:

From the Cutting Room floor…

And tonight, the old computers in the house get Linux Mint XFCE on ’em, and “easyfied” setup with a browser with her account-wide saved settings and little else. the existing laptop is too old for Win 11, and I wouldn’t curse my worst enemy with that nonsense, so we make the old machine safe to […]

Reports from the Field Mission, scanned on phone. Not ideal, but it works in a pinch.. Rain. This is a thing I’ve seen where I come from. It’s infrequent, but I know it exists So, this “Snow” thing actually exists – confirmed! It’s like rain, but doesn’t get you wet as fast as rain does, […]

I’ve scanned all my material from the Chandler Type-In yesterday, and will work on the Report while I’m traveling, worry not! Just imagine the mail call post in two weeks, when I come home to all the mail stacked on my desk! :D

My advice to Joe now that he has joined the ranks of Gentlemen with Canes.

It’s been a bit over 24 hours since I set up Pi-Hole on the $3.50 Raspberry Pi 3B and I have learned some interesting things. The first thing I learned was how much unwanted activity was happening on certain devices on my home network. Over the past day, devices, computers and phones attached to my […]

Block ads at home with Pi-hole.

Currently in the Eyeholes:

So I was poking around the Phomemo M02 thermal printer’s capabilities, and while I’ve run into limitations on printing long text documents and panoramas (just exactly the sort of thing you’d *want* to print on roll paper) via the “Notes” function in Phomemo’s App, I wondered what the limitations would be on printing PDF documents […]

GJK has also sent the Tape Pals Omega XL cassette on its way to Gregory S with his contributions, so *that* one is another step closer, and moving very briskly. I have no idea what I’ll put on it when it gets back to me, but I am invariably inspired by what the other two […]

Currently in the Eyeholes: Honestly, if you’re a Sherlock Holmes fan and you haven’t seen Bill Pullman‘s take on Holmes and Ben Stiller’s take on Watson, you’re seriously missing out. (:

The new Executive Order defining only two sexes based on gender at conception (and ignoring the 1.7% of the population born Intersex – who knows what they are now): https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/ The NIH definition of gender at conception: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222286/ “During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the […]

Weapon of Choice: “Ghost Chocolate” 1957 Olympia SM3 #998587