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Category: From the Desk of Reverend Munk
Typecasts from the desk of the Right Reverend Theodore Munk
Canon Powershot S3is – It’s full of ACID and Error E24, can I fix it?
Welp, I figured this $5 Powershot S3is from 2006 was sold as “Parts” due to the Goodwill not knowing that it took AA batteries. The notes on the listing said the store “couldn’t figure out how to charge it”, so it seemed like a good bet. Today it came in the mail, and I was […]
Why Timelapses?
The current Corral of CHDK capable Canon Powershots, soon to be +1. Typecast typed during: Typewriter Club Live: 2023-06-11 Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call from Guth, Thrifin’ Finds and a test timelapse from the Powershot A410 & CHDK
***Sadly, Youtube’s compression blows away all of the pretty stars and satellites in the video. I suspect that rendering it down to DVD resolution will do worse. Still, the full-resolution video looks GREAT! :P *** Currently in the earholes:
Correspondence Episode 13; Mini-DVD Edition!
Unlucky Thirteen? Who knows who’ll even get this far? Currently in the eyeholes:
Remember Portable CD Players?
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Mail Call: Well, I guess I’m making DVD Episodes now :D
Thanks Gregory! I was actually compiling timelapses today when this showed up. (: I had dug up the original source images for timelapses done between 1999 and 2009 and recompiled them into fresh videos. There’s one that spans a solid month – 48,259 frames rendered at 30 frames per second compressed down to almost 27 […]
Mail Call: Potential Arc Flash Hazard
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Mini-DVD talk in TCL – Maybe Timelapses Correspondence Episode???
Typewriter Club LIVE: 2023-06-04 Currently in the earholes:
NCV001 – a Cinema Verite From MiniDV to DVD!
My first attempt got et by the ZR-20. These are the hazards of analog. :D First hook up the camcorder to the firewire port and turn it on in “VCR” mode, and rewind the tape to the beginning. Next we check to make sure the Firewire card can be seen by the system: lspci -nn […]
Mail Call from Canada!
Daniel includes a CD j-card in his letter, but no CD, so currently in the earholes:
A Correspondence Experience Re-lived!
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Mail Call: A Letter and a Package! (:
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Fixin’ a grindy laptop optical drive on the $7 WinXP laptop
2023-01-27: Thriftin’ Report: $7 Laptop & Celtic Knot Stamps! Getting the optical drive out of an HP Pavilion dv4000 laptop Yup, that center spindle is certainly rubbing on the bent drive cover. Verrry carefully bend it back into shape. While we’ve got it open, let’s clean the lens and dust out the insides. The spex! […]
Correspondence: Episode 12 – Melinda Loves Roger
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Mail Call: JVC Types in SPACE!
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Mail Call from Portugal!
And also this came in the mail – I wonder what it could be? Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Coffee, Tea or Microcassette? Why Not All Three? :D
Weapon of Choice: Mitsubishi Pencil Company Boxy 100 ballpoint pen. I love the size, flat sides and fine point, but it’s a little lightweight and I feel I write a little less readably when I look at the result. The pen itself looks very futuristic! The Booty! :D I had the Teeccino Maple Pecan, which […]
Mail Call with Hula Girl Collins Tumblers!
Weapon of Choice: “Little Jake” 1933 Monarch (Remington) Remie Scout Model #S73610 Currently in the earholes:
Compact Cassette Lows and Corona Highs
Sigh. It also ate the Larry P. “Witchita Lineman” tape. Luckily I had all that digitized, but I can’t rightly put a tape someone sends me in there. I need reliable non-destruction.. Currently in the earholes:
Latest Mail Call Forces Completion of Episode 11
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ACCO “PressTex”, Franklin-Covey Classic and EDCN, Oh my!
Weapon of Choice: “Dr. Lizardo” 1973 IBM Selectric II #26 1220365 When I fill up the second EDCN Archive book, then I’ll switch to the A5 3-Ring binder for Archive Book #3, and by the time I fill that up, I should be out of 2-hole punched EDCN sheets and well into the FC “Classic” […]
Going With The Flow
Weapon of Choice: 1959 Smith Corona Skyriter #3Y 210063 Typewriter Club LIVE 2023-05-07: Heh, I just noticed on re-watching the TCL meetup that Brian G wore his Galactic Federation of Typewriter Repair Rangers shirt, but was working on his Panasonic folding record player. Franklin-Covey “Classic” hole puncher – at a thrift store near you! Two […]
Mail Call – New Cassette Deck? :D
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Mail Call – One Letter To Save Us All
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Finding the *right* ribbon for a machine
Weapon of Choice: 1959 Smith Corona Skyriter #3Y 210063 Weapon of Choice: “Einstein” 1956 Smith Corona Silent #5S 529594 When you have intact and still supple feet, but the bottoms are shiny and slippery, try sanding the shine off and enjoy fresh grippiness! The old glue on the typebar rest dried out, but that’s easily […]
A delightful Elite face Skyriter! :D
Weapon of Choice: 1959 Smith-Corona Skyriter #3Y210063 Actually, there is something(s) I need to do to this Skyriter, first, prepare for a BESTICKERING! (been savin’ up stickers for just this occasion) And clean that typeface out! Squirt, squirt, scrubby, scrubby… Mmmm, much better! Now we’re talkin”! :D Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call (finally!)
Weapon of Choice: “Little Jake” 1933 Monarch (Remington) Remie Scout Model #S73610 Currently in the earholes:
Got Them No-Mail Blues, and Other Desperate Tragedies.
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What the Thrift Gods bring…
Franklin-Covey “Classic” 365 and EDCN Convergence
Note the difference in how each page works in the blog format. The FC365 probably reads best in a browser size where the images are sized at max 1000px wide size.
How to properly describe the condition of a typewriter.
An example of the sort of clarity that I think would be useful when refurbishers are “Reconditioning” typewriters is the issue of platens. I’ll say straight up that a typewriter is not “rebuilt” unless all the rubber bits have been replaced and the platen recovered. By “recovered” I mean the rubber covering of the platen […]
Rebuilding the Wilson-Jones “Hummer” Hole Puncher – Brand New Backstop Guides!
Weapon of Choice: newer Wilson-Jones Hummer set up as 2-Tower, 2-Backstop EDCN format puncher, Punching some new high-gloss KromeKote paper for EDCN testing… Now that I have one Hummer set up for EDCN use, I can combine parts from the two others to make another one. Unfortunately, I have no other original backstop brackets, but […]
The ABQ Gang Invades!
Joe & Ted @ The Drunk Munk (no relation) Tori & Ted, trying not to be annoyed at the live DJ playing completely inappropriate music for a Tiki Bar. Were it me, I’d be spinning Arthur Lyman, The Insect Surfers and Yma Sumac. Typewriter Club Live 2023-04-16 Weapon of Choice: Bill Wahl’s personal desktop SG-1 […]