Boomer being cute & silly after ripping up my typin’ chair long ago…Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Double Letter Day Full of Joy & Sadness
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Mail Call: A Secret Squirrel Chip Letter From Joe!
A Fresh Type 71 ribbon for Moshura! Journal 8-Point Medium [J-8-M] Currently in the eyeholes: Moovies from Joe!
ZoomFail – This Typecast Brought To You By The Letters: T-11-I
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Mail Call: Shiny Silver Stationery and the Case of the Swiped Swizzles.
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This Typecast Brought To You By The Letters AR-12-I
Weapon of Choice: “Mothra” 1972 IBM Selectric Composer #5016537 Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Mothra Invades Canadian Correspondence
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Spacetime Resync and the Joy of Installing Windows XP on New-ish Hardware
2014 HP Pavilion p7-1110 3.30GHz Intel Core i3-2120, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 500gb 7200rpm Hard Drive, SuperMulti DVD Burner. Snappy Driver Installer Origin (the good one) Let’s install some fun games! How about Sid Meyer’s Alpha Centauri, Alien Crossfire, Civilization 4 and Beyond The Sword? And while we’re at it, why not throw on SimCity […]
Final Proof for Corona 4-Zephyr Bible, Mothra Back in Rotation, Sequential Letter #4 and 9th Phoenix Type-In News!
Weapon of Choice: “Richard The Deep Breather”, 1925 Corona 4 #H506286 Weapon of Choice: “Mothra” 1972 IBM Selectric Composer #5016537 Type Pals Sequential Letter #4 in progress. Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up and Type-In, Tentatively scheduled for Sept 23rd @ First Draft Book Bar.Currently in the earholes:
Yet another Double-Mail Day! TC’s Mix Arrives!
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Dubble-Dubble Mail Call! The Mail Storm! :D
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Double Mail Call – It’s Raining Letters! :D
In celebration of Larry P. saving the Universe, currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Breaking the drought
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The transition from thriftin’ typewriters to thriftin’ teenaged digital cameras and laptops
2005 HP Pavilion DV4307cl 1.73 GHz Pentium M 1gb DDR2 800MHz SDRAM, 60gb IDE HD, 1280×800 15.4″ WXGA screen Intel GMA 900 128mb shared My Cost: $7, Mesa Thrift Store 2007 HP/Compaq 6715b 2.2 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64 4gb DDR2 SDRAM, 120gb SSD, 1680×1050 15.4″ WXGA screen ATI Radeon X1250 My Cost: Free, […]
A TCL Unrealized
Weapon of Choice: 1946 Royal Quiet De Luxe #A-1218244 Currently in the earholes:
UJTU: More Temporal Compression
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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: