Dreamt of learning Latin? Here’s how you’ll finally do it by [[Thomas V. Mirus]]
A non-specialist look at his Latin language acquisition with lots of resources around Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latin text.
Dreamt of learning Latin? Here’s how you’ll finally do it by [[Thomas V. Mirus]]
A non-specialist look at his Latin language acquisition with lots of resources around Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latin text.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)?
This was mentioned to me at an IndieWebCamp event today.
Seems interesting with respect to the meta portions of books.
Looks like the sort of thing that @remikalir and @anterobot may be interested in.
In Praise of (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes<br /> by [[Ross Gay]] on September 21, 2023
Begun, George M. “Making Your Own Punched Cards.” Journal of Chemical Education 32, no. 6 (June 1, 1955): 328. https://doi.org/10.1021/ed032p328.
George Begun used a template of "heavy galvanized iron" to drill holes into his 5 x 8" index cards to create his own edge-noted card system for use in his chemistry work. Rather than using commercially made sorting needles, he recommended the use of a ice pick with a dulled point "for safety".
Edison wants to raise rates to pay for wildfires linked to its equipment - Los Angeles Times by [[Melody Petersen]]
As western Altadena waited hours for evacuation orders, fire commanders faced utter chaos - Los Angeles Times by [[Terry Castleman]], [[Grace Toohey]]
Your car didn't escape the fire? Here's how to get rid of it - Los Angeles Times by [[Karen Garcia]]
Good, deep work. by [[Richard Polt]]
We’ve always advocated that our AI processes are orders of magnitude inefficient.
read this paper. AI improvements
Reclaiming the Railroad Train-Related Use of The Word 'Hump" by [[Mary Beth Klatt]]
Accountability by [[Adam Newbold]]
A post about the kerfuffle on micro.blog on 2025-01-22
Silence by [[Vincent Ritter]]
In response to micro.blog kerfuffle about allyship on 2025-01-22
President-elect Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Here are the rights he is set to lose by [[The Associated Press]]
advances in prompt engineering1, agents2, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)3, and fine-tuning4
LLM advances
Pronunciation of Celtic: Why are there two ways? by [[Editors of Merriam-Webster]]
Scholars Talk Writing: Helen Sword by [[Rachel Toor]] in Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017-07-31 archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210722062708/https://www.chronicle.com/article/scholars-talk-writing-helen-sword/
On This Day in Typewriter History: Royal’s HH - 'The Greatest New Typewriter of All Time' by [[Robert Messenger]]
Educational-Film Director Ted Peshak Dies by [[Adam Bernstein]]
The Atlantic. Review of Plutarch’s Lives, by Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden, and Plutarch. January 1860. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1860/01/plutarchs-lives/627616/
Some excellent quotes and evidence for the importance of Plutarch's Lives, almost more so than the importance of this particular translation.
https://grammaticus.co/obscure-words/<br /> - hustings<br /> - Rodomontade<br /> - lustrations<br /> - penetralia<br /> - contumelious<br /> - weldtering - importunities<br /> - indefatigable<br /> - interjacent<br /> - ambuscade - moiety
What’s the Best Translation of Plutarch’s Lives? – grammaticus by [[grammaticus]] on 2020-09-23
Archaeologist Discovers Two Neolithic Stone Circles in England, Supporting a 'Sacred Arc' Theory by [[Margherita Bassi]]
Utopian Civic-Mindedness: RobertMaynard Hutchins, MortimerAdler, and the Great BooksEnterprise
Born, Daniel. “Utopian Civic-Mindedness: Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the Great Books Enterprise.” In Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace, edited by DeNel Rehberg Sedo, 81–100. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308848_5.
I had not yet read William James’stelling attack on the Ph.D. octopus in American institutions of higherlearning.’26
The Remington De Luxe KMC by [[Richard Polt]]
The Italian Super-Riter by [[Richard Polt]]
How to Choose a Typewriter for Serious Writing by [[Jonny Eberle]] on 2024-11-24
A good overview of some of the considerations one may want to make when looking for a typewriter.
Cal Newport vs Zettelkasten – SAD! (Clickbait) by [[Sascha Fast]] on 2024-11-28
Dousa, Thomas M. “Facts and Frameworks in Paul Otlet’s and Julius Otto Kaiser’s Theories of Knowledge Organization.” Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 36, no. 2 (2010): 19–25. https://doi.org/10.1002/bult.2010.1720360208.
Brooks, Arthur C. “Three Ways to Become a Deeper Thinker.” The Atlantic, November 21, 2024. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/sound-of-one-hand-clapping/680699/.
Clack to the future: Typewriters are pounding out new roles in communities by [[Phaedra Trethan]]
Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by [[Zoë Schlanger]]
Lots of links to journal articles and published studies here.
Winston Churchill's eccentric working habits revealed in rare papers by [[Nadia Khomami]]
Mr. Churchill's Typewriters by [[Susan Elia Macneal]]
X Is a White-Supremacist Site by [[Charlie Warzel]]
In Appalachia, Poverty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder by [[Pam Fessler]] on 2014-01-18
The infamous Apple typewriter memo is 40 years old ... by [[Richard Polt]]
Don’t lose sight of why Trump won by [[Megan McArdle]]
https://experiments.myhub.ai/ai4communities_post
Matthew Lowry experiment
Rolla typewriter enthusiasts open store for those enchanted by the 'clickety clack' by [[Jonathan Ahl]]
Retired collector turned repair person
Emerson is, “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
source?
Read A System for Writing by Bob Doto by [[Ton Zijlstra]] – Interdependent Thoughts
A candy engineer explains the science behind the Snickers bar by [[Richard Hartel]] for [[The Conversation]]
How to Spot Emerging Note Clusters Without Alphanumeric Note Numbering? by [[Ton Zijlstra]] in Interdependent Thoughts
I recall Bob Doto had a video at some point in which he used the local graph to show relationships to find bunches of notes for potentially writing pieces or articles as indicated in Tons' article.
One of the biggest issues with digital note taking tools is that they don't make it easy to see and identify chains of notes which might make for articles, chapters, or books.
Surely there must be some way to calculate neighborhoods of notes from a topological perspective? Perhaps if one imposed a measure on the space to create relative distances of notes?
20 years a blogger on 2021-01-13 by [[Cory Doctorow]]
A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care by [[Cassandra Jaramillo]] and [[Kavitha Surana]]
https://omnivore.app
有意思,有时间试试
KMC vs. KMM by [[Richard Polt]]
Know and Master Your Social Media Data Flow by [[Louis Gray]]
See commentary at https://boffosocko.com/2017/04/11/a-new-way-to-know-and-master-your-social-media-flow/
Kasten, R. M. “First Aid for Typewriters.” Popular Science Monthly, May 1941.
Hints for a Happy Typewriter<br /> Bryan Kravitz, Nancy Gorrell, 1983<br /> https://typewriterdatabase.com/1983-Hints4HappyTypewriter.index.manual
Some good, basic home care and use from 1983. Home mechanics in 2024 are probably capable of a bit more without the backstop of a typewriter mechanic.
This guide suggest the use of solvents like alcohol or trichloroethane for cleaning type slugs and internals. Note that trichloroethane manufacture and use has diminished significantly since 1996 when it was identified by the Montreal Protocol as a contributor to ozone depletion.
Custom 3D Printed Selectric Elements are HERE! (Vogue! Papyrus!) by [[Theodore Munk]]
How to Read a Book by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Part 1
Amazing series by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf on Adler and van Doorns How to Read a Book. Part 2 is here: . How to Read a Book, Part 2 by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
Saying Goodbye to Vale Typewriter, the Second-to-Last Typewriter Shop in Town - Racket by [[Jay Boller]] for [[Racket]]
Mark Soderbeck expects to close Vale Typewriter by the end of 2024 after a 67-year run.
English composition: Eight lectures given at the Lowell Institute, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.
evidence of a card system/zettelkasten method in this?
I found a copy and indeed there is evidence!
The third reading should again be a slow reading,
relationship to Adler's levels of reading?
The Time I Met New York’s Patron Saint of Typewriters by [[Thaisa Frank]] March 12, 2019
Step Back In Time At The Mesa Typewriter Exchange by [[Phil Latzman]]
Oliver Sacks Archive Heads to the New York Public Library by [[Jennifer Schuessler]]

The voluminous papers of the celebrated neurologist include letters, notebooks, drafts and other traces of a man who couldn’t stop writing.
You have to love the boos, notebooks, papers, fountain pen, typewriter, computer, printer, and even writing software all pictured in this... Add the glasses and it just reeks of someone who reads and writes.
After 24 Years, Scholar Completes 3,000-Page Translation Of The Hebrew Bible by [[Rachel Martin]]
John Amos Dead: Good Times Dad, Roots and Mary Tyler Moore Star Was 84 by [[Jordan Moreau]] for Variety 2024-10-01
Origin of Royal's Vogue by [[x over it]]
WP Engine is not WordPress by [[Matt Mullenweg]]
Typewriters? In 2024? Are You Nuts? by Jesse M. Slater for [[Raconteur Press]]
A short, but relatively solid typewriter 101 story for someone looking for a distraction-free writing machine. Certainly not completist, but enough to get your toes wet.
Slater uses his typewriter for a first draft, then edits the second draft as he re-types it into his computer to have a digital copy for further editing and distribution.
I don't expect everyone to read every single line of the code for a project they are trying to use, that isn't very reasonable. What I do see though, is that a lot developers have a mental barrier to actually opening up the source code for the project they are trying to use. They will read the documentation, run the tests, use the example code, but when they are faced with a problem that could be solved through a one or two line change in the source code, they shut down completely. The point is that you shouldn't be afraid to jump into the source code. Even if you don't fully understand the source code, in many cases you should be able to isolate your issue to a specific block. If you can reference this block ( or line numbers ) when opening up your support request, it will help the author better understand your problem.
Two people convicted of running a Chinese 'maternity hotel' in Rancho Cucamonga by [[Fiona Ng]]
This was the case I had for jury duty last week. I only got to voir dire and didn't even make it into the box. Interesting to see it make the news after it was settled.
The headline is a bit off. They were convicted of fraud and money laundering. There were no charges with respect to a maternity hotel operation based on what I heard on the first day before being excused.
Louis Vieux Elm intentionally set on fire by [[The Mercury]]
I went gleaning for fruit to try and reduce my carbon footprint. Was it enough? by [[Caitlin Hernández]]
https://myoldtypewriter.com/2018/08/05/adler-j3-please-release-me/
Adler's have a quirky locking mechanism for helping to lock the machines into their cases and after decades of storage, the rubber can compress thereby locking the typewriter into the case permanently. Removing the e-clips internally will unlock them at which point the rubber compression locks can be replaced.
The article mentions other incidences of this. Another example at https://new.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1fckg8f/removing_triumph_gabriele_1_from_case_base_plate/
What To Do With Substack? by [[Dan Allosso]]
The "recency" problem is difficult in general in social media which tends to accentuate it versus the rest of the open web which is more of a network.
Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter by [[Casey Newton]]
Newton takes a thin view of the eternal question of information overload and whether or not AI might improve the situation. No serious results...
Three apps that made me more productive this year by [[Casey Newton]]
Casey Newton is using a Zettelkasten note taking approach based on zettelkasten.de to cover his beat
Prominent HKS Professor Ricardo Hausmann Accused of Plagiarism by Former Co-Author by [[William C. Mao]] and [[Dhruv T. Patel]]
“The Da Vinci Code” Trial: Dan Brown’s Witness Statement Is a Great Read by [[Peter Lattman]]
It’s Peak Season for Tamales in Los Angeles by [[Tejal Rao]]
Highlighting the importance of the tamal in culture
Ko, Genevieve. “A Kitchen Resolution Worth Making: Follow the Recipe Exactly.” The New York Times, January 4, 2021, sec. Food. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/dining/cookbook-recipe-resolutions.html.
Book Review: ‘Where Tyranny Begins,’ by David Rohde by [[David Greenberg]]
Looks like a good overview book of DJT's policies with respect to erosion of democracy in America.
read article Sun 8/25/2024 7:01 PM
Book Review: “Impossible Creatures,” by Katherine Rundell by [[Laura Miller]] in New York Times
I hadn't put her Donne work together with her children's writing...
Read Sun 8/25/2024 7:02 PM
Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump’s Achilles’ Heel: Ridicule Him by [[Michael Tomasky]]
confirming my thesis that Donald J. Trump is a Boggart and can be banished using some of the same techniques as taught in Harry Potter
Why Clinton's claim that Democratic presidents created more jobs than Republicans is slightly misleading by [[Maz Zahn]] on 2024-08-22 for ABC News
While Clinton may have left out additional detail, the root of the statement is not only broadly true, but broadly representative of the fact that Republican administrations have been devastating in general to the economy and Democrats have been handed shit at the start of their terms to clean up.
Strange Loops: Reading a Book on How to Read a Book by [[Sascha Fast]]
Not quite sure of what Fast is getting at here. Language barrier perhaps?
The case FOR WD-40 use in typewriters by [[Thom Cholowski]] in Antique Typewriter Maintenance Group
Some thorough colloquial and unreferenced, but reasonably scientific advice about the use of WD-40 to clean typewriters, particularly with respect to water displacement.
Once used for cleaning typewriter internals, WD-40 needs to be flushed out with kerosene or naphtha.
make the stops from a strip of 0.032" x 1/2" x 12" K & S brass from Ace Hardware
Brass Tab Stops for Remington Noiseless 7 Typewriters by [[David Randall]]
David Randall made some custom tab stops for his typewriter with some thin brass, a hacksaw, and a file.
Faster Remington Noiseless 7 Typewriter Spool Covers by [[David Randall]]
Index card system to track daily, weekly, and monthly routines by [[Anna Havron]]
Brief outline of a tickler file system for today, daily, weekly, and monthly to do items.
Portable Typewriter Relabeling...how and why by [[Will Davis]]
AMC Typewriter by [[Mark Adams]] on September 21, 2013
666: “The Beast” by [[Mark Adams]]
Only one like this in ALL my collection by [[Mark Adams]] on November 4, 2013
This one has a curiously wrapped decorative platen.
Philly Typewriter starts a trade school by [[Richard Polt]]
This is interesting, but 4 years? This seems like a 1-2 year thing at best.
The Typewriters of Naked Lunch by [[Theodore Munk]]
Who is Byron L. Wolfe, Author of OAMI Noiseless Typewriter Mechanical Training Manual? by [[Theodore Munk]]
Great, simple list here of all the adjustments for typewriter repair.
Common Typewriter Problems and Fixes
A short pictorial primer for quick repairs of many common typewriter problems including:<br /> - stripping a typewriter<br /> - cleaning and oiling - carriage not moving<br /> - ribbon reverse not working<br /> - bell not working - characters out of alignment<br /> - inconsistent margin<br /> - space bar jumping/inconsistent
Restoring a 1926 Typewriter Case by knife141 on Instructables
Look at these guys. One works 16 hours a day. One works 4 hours a week. 2 billionaires. 1 mind-blowing lesson about success: (I can't believe no one has connected the dots)
Interesting thread about Elon Musk & Naval Ravikant. Need to read more in-depth later
Meet Bob Marshall<br /> Voyage LA Magazine
Cothran, Ann, and George E. Mason. “The Typewriter: Time-Tested Tool for Teaching Reading and Writing.” The Elementary School Journal 78, no. 3 (1978): 171–73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1001415
No new results here, but a modest overview and literature review of research on typewriters in classrooms.
Typewriter / Typeface: The Legacy of the Writing Machine in Type Design by [[María Ramos]] on July 12, 2016
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes by [[Quote Investigator]]
Venkataraman, Bina. “How Latino Influencers Are Fighting Misinformation in South Florida.” The Washington Post, May 30, 2024, sec. Opinion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/misinformation-spanish-latinos-south-florida/.
New Punch List: Olympia SG1 by [[maryech]]
Big Blue Gets Renewed by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
I like the aftermarket upgrades you've made.
The Cheers reference reminds me that I've been trying to pair drinks with machines as I write. I had a blue cocktail on a cruise to Alaska last year that used glacier ice (which is blue), but since that's not easy to source in ABQ, maybe try an "Electric Iced Tea" which is a variation on the Long Island iced tea but which swaps blue curaçao for the triple sec and a clear lemon-lime based soda for the cola.
Meet the Dublin man meticulously restoring vintage typewriters | IMAGE.ie by [[Lizzie Gore-Grimes]]
Converting A Typewriter To Colemak by [[Jan Söndermann]]
Trump Media Quietly Enters Deal With a Republican Donor Who Could Benefit From a Second Trump Administration by [[Justin Elliott]], [[Robert Faturechi]] and [[Alex Mierjeski]]
Opinion - America Has Questions for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump by The New York Times Editorial Board
Lucy Calkins Retreats on Phonics in Fight Over Reading Curriculum by Dana Goldstein
Not much talk of potentially splitting out methods for neurodivergent learners here. Teaching reading strategies may net out dramatically differently between neurotypical children and those with issues like dyslexia. Perceptual and processing issues may make some methods dramatically harder for some learners over others, and we still don't seem to have any respect for that.
This example is an interesting one of the sort of generational die out of old ideas and adoption of new ones as seen in Kuhn's scientific revolutions.
Choosing the Right Typewriter by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
Trump, on Social Media, Describes Being ‘Shot With a Bullet’ in the Ear by [[Michael Gold]]
Richard Simmons Dead at 76 by [[TMZ Staff]]
John Waters: Manson Family Member Should Be Free by [[NPR]] on [[All Things Considered]]
Schiff, Stacy. “Véra Nabokov Was the First and Greatest Champion of ‘Lolita.’” The New Yorker, March 5, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210729035701/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/vera-nabokov-was-the-first-and-greatest-champion-of-lolita.
Barzun, Jacques. Review of No Royal Road, by H. G. Wells. The Saturday Review, February 24, 1940. p6.
Who originated, “Now is the time for all good men …” by [[Cecil Adams]] dated 1977-09-15 in The Straight Dope
A Typer’s Dozen: Richard Polt by Bill Guthrie
for example, Vandeputte et al. (2017) measured total-community abundance using flow cytometry
how did you measure abundance properly without noise from particulates?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/typewritermaintenance/permalink/2310899869147449/
Details for helping to remove the platen on an Olympia SG1
Out with the Old, In with the New: Olympia SM by [[myoldtypewriter]]
They recommend fixing the Olympia SM3 spacer issue with:
Danco 1/2 rubber washer Universal (item #198804, model #88569) -- 00 trade size with 1/2" OD and 3/16" ID. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Danco-10-Pack-1-2-Rubber-Washer/3380002
The Amazing Floating Olympia by [[Michael P. Clemens]] aka clickthing
Michael recommends using 1/4" flat bibb washers with 9/16" OD to replace the rubber washers on the Olympia SM3, which notoriously are squished and need replacement. The general symptom is that the carriage sits low on the machine and scrapes or hangs on the sides of the body beneath it.
Adler, Mortimer J., and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book: The Classical Guide to Intelligent Reading. Revised and Updated edition. 1940. Reprint, Touchstone, 2011.
Edmund Gröpl's concept map of Adler & Van Doren's How to Read a Book via https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/20668#Comment_20668:

Kurutz, Steven. “Now You Can Read the Classics With A.I.-Powered Expert Guides.” The New York Times, June 13, 2024, sec. Style. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/style/now-you-can-read-the-classics-with-ai-powered-expert-guides.html.
https://danallosso.substack.com/p/hypothesis-social-and-private-annotation-053
Fun to see Dan Allosso using Hypothes.is as a more social media-related application instead of just the social annotation tool as many are using this in academia. It requires some additional work, but the discovery functionality is fantastic.
Family Typewriter Repair Business Forced to Relocate After Rent Increase by [[Nic Cha Kim]] for Spectrum News 1 on 2019-04-16
Highland Park repair shop enjoys a typewriter revival by [[The Eastsider]]
This typewriter repairman was told computers were king. Twenty years later, he’s still in business by [[Matthew Ormseth]] on 2019-02-06 for Los Angeles Times
The classic account of industrialisation was David Landes’s The Unbound Prometheus (1969), which argued that economic transformation was rooted in three crucial substitutions: of ‘machines ... for human skill and effort’, of ‘inanimate for animate sources of power’, and of ‘mineral for vegetable or animal substances’ as raw materials.
Despite – or perhaps because of – all this activity, Samuel only published one sole-authored book in his lifetime, Theatres of Memory (1994), an account of the popular historical imagination in late 20th-century Britain told via case studies, from Laura Ashley fabrics to the touristification of Ironbridge. Since his death from cancer in 1996, however, Samuel has been prolific. A second volume of Theatres of Memory, titled Island Stories: Unravelling Britain, came out in 1998, followed in 2006 by The Lost World of British Communism, a volume of essays combining research and recollections.
Theatres of Memory (1994) sounds like it's taking lots of examples from a zettelkasten and tying them together.
It's also interesting to note that he published several books posthumously. Was this accomplished in part due to his zettelkasten notes the way others like Ludwig Wittgenstein?
Subtle differences between the two models.
Pg… 61 Nabokov: Master of Versatility: The Author of Lolita is an Expert at Languages, Chess and Lepidoptera
LIFE Magazine November 20, 1964<br /> Show of Toughness in Moscow
Good Remington Portable Typewriters, Bad Remington Portable Typewriters by [[Robert Messenger]]
The Remington Graduate and Torpedo 900 are (good) variations/rebrandings of the Remington Ten Forty.
Good Remington Ten Fortys weight over 5kg and the bad are 4.6kg.
Carl Sundberg’s European-made Remington Portable Typewriters by [[Robert Messenger]]
Known fizzled by [[Ben Werdmuller]]
Dr. Harry McNeill’s June 1940 assessment in Interracial Review
Interesting commentary here on conversion of African-Americans to Catholicism as well as self-help nature of reading for improvement. Analogizes African-Americans without Catholicism to Mortimer J. Adler as a Jew.
Possible tone of colonialism to assimilate African-Americans into Western Culture here? Though still somehow some space for movement and growth.
acques Barzun, “Review of How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler,”Saturday Review (March 9, 1940): 6–7; Adler, Philosopher at Large, 67.
available at: https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1940mar09-00006/
Barzun, Jacques. "Read, Do Not Run" Review of How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler. The Saturday Review, March 9, 1940.
After publication in February 1940, How to Read a Book propelledAdler to the forefront of the Great Books Movement and into a posi-tion now referred to as a “public intellectual.”