Manual Ribbon

Return of the Manual Ribbon

2010-10-18T09:06:00.000-07:00

Epitaph for a Scanner

2009-03-16T17:11:00.000-07:00

Oh, how your light shined!
Digitizing my words, time after time.
But bit by bit your circuitry died
And over time your light has faded.
So scan nevermore, my faithful friend
For today you shall be liquidated.

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.

Hermes 3000

2009-01-14T05:53:00.000-08:00

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)

2009-01-10T19:10:00.000-08:00

Just 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.

Funny Thoughts

2008-11-02T21:12:00.000-08:00

This 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.'"

Nanowrimo

2008-11-01T23:14:00.000-07:00

Two-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?

2008-10-22T22:11:00.001-07:00

2008-10-19T21:18:00.001-07:00

Um, stuff...

2008-10-14T20:40:00.000-07:00

Honey, I Think I Broke the Scanner

2008-10-13T05:42:00.000-07:00

Well, 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.

Papercasting

2008-10-02T19:48:00.000-07:00

2008-09-29T10:53:00.000-07:00

Get Down with the Sickness

2008-09-26T09:28:00.001-07:00

CWA- The Irony and Defeat

2008-09-23T21:54:00.000-07:00

The First Post

2008-09-22T15:21:00.000-07:00