Camp

Typed on a backpack-perfect Hermes Baby:

Happy Typewriter Day

The scene for today's Typewriter Day celebrations. I've got video to splice together of the actual typing, such as it is. It was very difficult to pack up at the end of my lunch hour and head back indoors.

Babied

My morning walking companion, determined that a leaf blowing across the street is actually a squirrel, and thus demands a halt in our walk for a stare-down.


Typed on a 1943 Hermes "baby"

No Post Today

No post today, for I am restoring my mental



by rummaging through the titles at the used book sale at the local



with my kids. (That's my daughter's elbow in the above pic.) Gadget lust can't replace the joy of the hunt.

Simplicity Redux

For those of you playing along at home, the process was:

1. Write post in LibreOffice
2. Unnecessarily save as HTML
   
3. Realize USB cable is sitting at home
   
4. Walk to electronics store on lunch to get another cable
5. Connect reader to computer
   
6. Run Calibre to convert to .epub and install on reader
7. Scan reader, paging between scans
8. Re-scan for pages that changed accidentally due to button presses
   
9. Open scan in gimp, realize it is in Black & White and not Greyscale mode
10. Edit out the frame from the scans, which was the whole point
11. Post anyway
    

Ah, technology. How you simplify our lives!

Attention Strippers

No, no, no, not that sort of stripper...

For those of you making Silver Surfers, I wonder: have any of you considered re-painting with appliance enamel? I'm sitting here staring at my stove, and thinking how nice a glossy white finish might look on some of these machines. Now, it's usually easier to get paint off a typewriter than it is to apply new paint on, but still... I wonder.

Skyriter Manual Scan

Requested by someone on an older post, here's a greyscale PDF scan of the manual from a Smith-Corona Skyriter circa mid-1950s.