tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14826626338657491252024-03-13T11:44:11.096-07:00Manual RibbonMy rants and raves about life and all there in, either papercast or typecast, provided my scanner is working.Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-50850286899633097752010-10-18T09:06:00.000-07:002010-10-18T09:12:44.870-07:00Return of the Manual Ribbon<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31013028@N06/5093302661/" title="Return of the Manual ribbon by myworknumberis611, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5093302661_82d0db683f.jpg" width="500" height="365" alt="Return of the Manual ribbon" /></a>Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-9910320115756188672009-03-16T17:11:00.000-07:002009-03-16T17:27:57.015-07:00Epitaph for a ScannerOh, how your light shined!<br />Digitizing my words, time after time.<br />But bit by bit your circuitry died<br />And over time your light has faded.<br />So scan nevermore, my faithful friend<br />For today you shall be liquidated. <br /><br />Sorry for the hiatus, but as you can see my scanner has died. I must venture out to the thrift stores and find another one.Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-13022572213266995012009-01-14T05:53:00.000-08:002009-01-14T06:01:31.008-08:00Hermes 3000<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31013028@N06/3196858874/" title="hermes 3000 by myworknumberis611, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3268/3196858874_097339d007_b.jpg" width="1024" height="681" alt="hermes 3000" /></a>Here she is the store had it marked at $8.98, but Saturdays are half off days. Scratch this one off the wish list. Now if I can just find a Royal Quiet Deluxe... (Photo by my multi-talented wife)Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-56708936720878537302009-01-10T19:10:00.000-08:002009-01-10T19:18:02.589-08:00Just a little note to let everyone out there know that I did not fall off the face of the earth. Our desktop has been on the screwy end of the spectrum for a while now, burning through power supplies like a cheap pack of cigarettes. I can't find the power cord to the scanner. I finally acquired a Hermes 3000. Five bucks at Angel View Thrift Store, here in Hemet. Sometimes I feel so spoiled having so many good thrift stores around. I'm sure the fact that this is a retirement community adds to the surplus of typewriters around.Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-34903152744599222872008-11-02T21:12:00.000-08:002008-11-02T22:15:21.428-08:00Funny ThoughtsThis is a quote from a story on the Fox News website: "An SM-3 fired from the USS Paul Hamilton directly hit the first target missile." The first thought in my narrow mind was, "How could a typewriter stop a missile?" Ah, the mind of a typewriter collector! NaNoWriMo update:3980 and nowhere near what I had planned. Love this one: " A recent survey of the top 1,000 living English-language authors finds that more than 80 percent own manual typewriters averaging 43 years in age and three broken functions, with a per-unit resale value of $4.75 and slipping. Yet in a questionnaire about their response if brigands should invade their homes and demand either their beat-up old manual typewriters or their spouses on pain of death, a whopping 96 percent wrote 'Spouse.'"Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-27977241792555921182008-11-01T23:14:00.000-07:002008-11-01T23:24:02.120-07:00NanowrimoTwo-thousand one-hundred and ninety-four words (<-this is how to pad a word count!), pounded out on a 1967 Olympia SM-9 all with no plot outline what so ever. Sweet deal today at the thrift store, Late model SM-9 (circa 1973) for half off of ten dollars and ninety-one cents (<-yet another ploy to pad my word count). Mechanically, I like this typewriter better that the '67 but I like the aesthetic value from the earlier models. Oh, well. Can't have your cake and eat it to. By the way does any one else type this:* instead of this:' when switching from a typewriter to a computer?Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-39101258943854519702008-10-22T22:11:00.001-07:002008-10-22T22:11:55.373-07:00<img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2965575777_ca8a97c183_o.jpg>Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-32953257097521655312008-10-19T21:18:00.001-07:002008-10-19T21:19:27.348-07:00<img src= http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/2956643381_550e33a2b8.jpg >Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-77050773536966940162008-10-14T20:40:00.000-07:002008-10-19T13:25:28.506-07:00Um, stuff...<img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/2946514572_0849b4c04e_o.jpg>Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-25729167134867788632008-10-13T05:42:00.000-07:002008-10-13T05:48:36.668-07:00Honey, I Think I Broke the ScannerWell, in a sad note we moved the computer desk the other day and now my three dollar scanner doesn't work. I wish we had a camera lens as well. I bought a Hermes Rocket on ebay a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to show her off. I guess I'll have to wait on that. In a lighter note, I signed up for NaNoWriMo. There is no way I could ever write 50,000 words on the computer. My inner editor would kill me. I've already re-edited this post twice and I am still writing it! I am thinking about long hand writing then re-editing on one of the typewriters. Wish me luck.Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-38421511796405846242008-10-02T19:48:00.000-07:002008-10-19T13:55:00.752-07:00Papercasting<img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3005/2956070000_c4421c380b_o.jpg>Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-3787769960465253192008-09-29T10:53:00.000-07:002008-10-19T13:49:58.993-07:00<img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3067/2956015960_771909dda3_o.jpg>Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-17712130344234742852008-09-26T09:28:00.001-07:002008-10-19T13:45:53.344-07:00Get Down with the Sickness<img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/2956015188_9c99572e3e_o.jpg>Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-70376644808943523532008-09-23T21:54:00.000-07:002008-10-19T13:44:06.027-07:00CWA- The Irony and Defeat<img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2955168295_dba67ba481_o.jpg>Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482662633865749125.post-85873474825646713562008-09-22T15:21:00.000-07:002008-10-19T13:42:29.572-07:00The First Post<img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3033/2956032204_09393a03b8.jpg>Jimmy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443588067806149176noreply@blogger.com3