Odd but in many ways the typewriter has expanded my entry into the digital world. Websites… blogs… translation… scanners… Photoshop… badges… widgets… themes… links and more.
With a typewriter… the digital world is more accessable.
Author: gee
Thoughts from a “digital immigrant”
Not being born into the world of digital… (a digital native) I am therefore a digital immigrant at least according to Richard Bucher. Based on this logic I would be an analog native speaker/user. Back when music came on vinyl discs… phones had rotary dials and television had two colors (black and white) and three stations (that mattered). Love CD’s but music did sound better on that needle. HD Television and 100’s of channels (you can see the same movie 10 times a day on 12 different channels… and different eposides of old shows on 20. Cell phones are neat… but it use to be great to get away from the phone. I live in this new age… but it seems I still have roots in another time.
1966 PTA Card… things change.
Today the PTA saids: “every child one voice” which is a good thing. Back in 1966 they took a little longer to say: “…for every child the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.” I like the older way of saying things.
My Iowa RAGBRAI XXV Passport
For the 25th ride… everyone got a Passport and 33 Local Post offices had special stamps to cancell your RAGBRAI Passport.
July 20-26, 1997 RAGBRAI PASSPORT
A 2nd view of the Virtual (Visual) Typewriter
Whatsamacallit (1910 Smith Premier) Thingofmagjig (1913 Royal 5).
Brought out my problem children for some fun in the sun. They type so they work. One day I will get them working well… for now its just fun to press their keys.
The embers still glow… thoughts from 40 years ago.
I have read things I wrote over 40 years ago… the thoughts are not very mature or insightfull. Sill there was a fire in my soul then. And the embers still glow…
What is a fake “Peace Medal” worth?
The answer depends of course on who owns it. Even if it did not come from the President… is not silver… or even owned by someone famous. “Friendship and Peace” will always hold its value for some.
Review: The Visual (virtual) Typewriter
Software that turns your computer screen/keyboard into a working Remington Portable with sound and motion called the Visual Typewriter… Want to work at your typewriter but not have speel check… not be able to change your mistakes with ease? Give the visual typewriter a try.
Gabriele Adler 35… no she’s 34 (1979)
Who would have thought I would run across a Triumph-Adler GABRIELE 35 (that’s what the T-A stamped on her rear stands for) this side of the Ocean. Since her front was uncovered (the Adler name strip missing) she looked like a lost soul of little value. Not sure when she arrived in America… but she has a new life with Typeoh.
