Wife of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, writing on typewriter. Through union activities this family has developed a desire for higher education. This typewriter is to them a symbol of that education and as such is the most prized family possession
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“I think one of the things that we’re going to do differently moving forward when we can clean up and come back is: We’re not going to collect so much stuff, to be honest. I know that sounds funny,” Lambert says. “Things don’t quite mean as much as they used to.”
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“In the beginning, it was like, ‘Oh, thank goodness, our house is standing, but this is hard to celebrate because everybody around us lost their house,’” Lambert says. “Then as the time went by, every day you’re realizing there’s more and more unknowns. It’s not as simple as, ‘There was a fire, it’s gone, clean your house, go back.’ It’s so much more complicated.”
This is one of my big worries as well.
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Two poets to open a typewriter and book shop in Garfield Park by [[Sophie Young]]
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Indy Type Shop will be at 2621 Shelby St., which used to be a gun shop and then a cell phone store.
Usually it might have been typewriter shop, gun shop, then cell phone store, so it's intriguing to see the opposite ordering.
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where they do things like writing live poetry on typewriters at weddings
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Hill, Rosemary. Review of Use your theodolite, by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings. London Review of Books, December 26, 2024. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/rosemary-hill/use-your-theodolite.
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If architecture is defined as construction aesthetically conceived, then stone circles, which often have a clear entrance and worked surfaces to distinguish between the interior and the exterior, are unquestionably architecture.
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Stonehenge by then belonged to the Crown and has been administered by English Heritage since 1984, during which time it has been an almost constant subject of dispute.
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The archaeologist Aubrey Burl, of whose original Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany this is a revised and updated version, came to the rescue and started excavation work in 1979.
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Aubrey died in 1697, leaving his notes in chaos and prehistory in the hands of a small number of varyingly eccentric specialists
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Pepys looked at the megaliths in 1668 and shrugged: ‘God knows what their use was.’
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Daniel Defoe , in his Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26), was unimpressed by the prehistoric remains. Arriving at the circle of nineteen standing stones at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall, he noted with baffled irritation that ‘all that can be learn’d of them is, That here they are.’
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Coining a word that is as fitting as it is symptomatic of the urge it describes, Warburg spoke of his Verknüpfungszwang. This ‘compulsion to interconnect’ lies not only at the root of his research and working methods.
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In his novel The White Castle (1998), Orhan Pamuk’s narrator says: “I suppose that to see everything as connected with everything else is the addiction of our time.”
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“The library, panels and boxes formed the ensemble of supports on which Aby Warburg’s spiritual work and intellectual creativity were based.” - Benjamin Steiner, Aby Warburgs Zettelkasten Nr. 2 “Geschichtsauffassung”, In: Heike Gfrereis / Ellen Strittmatter (Hrsg.): Zettelkästen. Maschinen der Phantasie (Marbacher Kataloge, 66). Marbach 2013, S. 154-161.
Aby Warburg used three primary tools for his research: his library, a card index, and panels.
His panels would be versions of pinboards, chalk boards, dry erase boards, or online versions of things like Canvas in Obsidian. It amounts to the ability to take notes or images on cards and shuffle them around on a table (or affixed to a wall).
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[T]he titles noted down were those which had aroused Warburg’s scholarly curios-ity while he was engaged on a piece of research. They were all interconnected in apersonal way as the bibliographical sum total of his own activity. These lists were,therefore, his guide as a librarian ; not that he consulted them every time he readbooksellers’ and publishers’ catalogues ; they had become part of his system and schol-arly existence. [...] Often one saw Warburg standing tired and distressed bent over hisboxes with a packet of index cards, trying to ind for each one the best place withinthe system ; it looked like a waste of energy. [...] It took some time to realise that hisaim was not bibliographical. This was his method of deining the limits and contentsof his scholarly world and the experience gained here became decisive in selectingbooks for the Library. 5
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Where does the work reside? Goes to the idea of zettelkasten coherence.
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In particular, this may be more interesting for shared book reading now...
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LogInternational2253 0 points1 point2 points 2 hours ago (0 children)Chandler AZ https://typecast.munk.org/2025/03/23/type-in-report-chandler-public-library-local-author-fair-type-in/?unapproved=214363&moderation-hash=308ce10a9ad2d68dea04b55046cf88e1#comment-214363
Based on this comment and link,
u/LogInternational2253 is Jared C Riddle from Arizona.
Be sure to invite to Los Angeles type-ins.
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Pigma Micron pens in point sizes 005 (0.20mm), 01 (0.25mm), 02 (0.30mm), 03 (0.35mm), 05 (0.45mm), and 08 (0.50mm)
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Dark Emu controversy took heavy toll on author Bruce Pascoe by [[Myles Wearring]]
Bruce Pascoe has a valuable take on the Austrialian version of what comes close to some of America/Canada's issues with the idea of "pretendian", though in his case it's slight amounts of Indigenous heritage. (see the video interview on ABC).
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There's a few things going on here. Generally at SGW a gray Olympia SM3 in excellent "looking" condition like this one will go for $120-150. This one is also hiding a script typeface which will usually add another $110-150 of value, which would put it at the $300 mark. I'm sort of surprised that the original winner didn't actually pay for it at this price as that's likely what someone would honestly pay for one like this. (It's also possible that they forgot they won or didn't know and didn't pay for it in time too.)
On today's listing, it's far, far more likely that someone wants it and either couldn't get it or pay for it now at the price that it was going to go for in a reasonable auction. They used a throw away accout to make an outrageous bid in hopes that in a week it'll be relisted and no one will notice the script typeface and it'll go for well under $200. (It won't.) This happens incredibly frequently for some of the less common typewriters. Usually it's machines with script or uncommon typefaces or uncommon character sets. Recent auctions for a gold plated Olympia SM3 and a Yellow Royal FP with a Gothic typeface come to mind. I've seen this also happen four or five times in a row before someone ultimately pays for a machine at some reasonable price.
Honestly, SGW should have a policy that the second and third runners up for auctions that don't get paid for by winners should have the right of last refusal on auctions like this to prevent this sort of "gaming" of the system. If you search back in this sub, you'll see this topic coming up every couple of weeks with the same discussions over and over. The common wisdom is that a SGW auction isn't gone until the machine doesn't pop up anymore and actually "sold". And even then, if you wait a week or two, you'll usually see the exact machine pop up less than a month later on eBay being listed by the winner for an exorbitant amount (almost always without having done any additional cleaning or restoration work on it aside from maybe dusting it out.)
Maybe we should add the tag #SGWgaming to all these conversations to make them easier to find?
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The long, thin spring-loaded metal flap labeled the "paper conductor" on the SM3 and SM4 and labeled the "erasing table" on the SM2 are all the same part. They serve a few functions.
They can be used for erasing mistakes certainly and help to keep dust and debris from going into the carriage and rollers.
The "paper conductor" description sounds like a fun translation of something from German into English, but this part also prevents the paper which goes under the paper bail and forces it up and back to the paper table and the paper support. Presumably without it, a slightly curved piece of paper might be misrouted to go right back into the platen a second time as the paper advances.
This sort of paper conductor/dust shield can also be found on some later 1960s+ Smith-Corona (SCM) machines. For example, see the Galaxie II which calls that part the erasure table.
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How we renew rubber rollers - Westland graphics cylinders (sent by customer)<br /> by [[Elastomeri d.o.o.]]
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Baraniuk, Chris. “‘We Use Them Every Day’: In Some Parts of the US, the Clack of Typewriter Keys Can Still Be Heard.” BBC, March 22, 2025. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250321-the-people-who-still-use-typewriters.
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Banerjee goes on to admit candidly: "I developed what we call 'typewriter fever'."
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Jim Riegert, now in his 70s, remembers what it used to be like. "Back then, typewriters were pretty big. Typewriters and adding machines," he says, referring to desktop calculators. "It got really difficult in the typewriter business about 25 years ago," he says. "The internet was coming on and killing us, too." He runs Typewriters.com and, despite a decline in sales in recent decades, he still shifts four or five electric IBM typewriters every week.
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The factory is in Indonesia, he explains, and is run by a team from Nakajima, a typewriter manufacturing firm from Japan. Every year, Royal still sells around 20,000 new electric typewriters and more than double that amount of mechanical typewriters. The latter have become desirable partly as decoration – a librarian might buy one for a display at the front of their library, for instance, suggests Althoff. The mechanical and electric models Royal sells cost between $300 (£238) and $400 (£317).
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Royal Typewriter Family by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
In Typewriter Video Series Episode 321 Joe and Kevin explore the Royal Heritage, Empress and Safari.
The Royal Futura and subsequent Royal Heritage were successor machines to the Royal Quiet De Luxe.
The Empress and the Safari have a sort of Jetsons (1962-1963) aesthetic.
Colloquial collection of typewriter fan names by Kevin and Joe:<br /> Cult of Hermes<br /> Royal Family<br /> Remington Rebels<br /> Smith-Corona Silent Superiors
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KoponewtPelicram ❤️ Slug Goblin 3 points4 points5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)Do you know what's the serial number on that? Some manufacturers had special models mostly for export purposes with extra keys. For example Royal 11 is a 10 with extra keys, Underwood No. 46 is a 5/3/6 with extra keys. Remington No. 9 is an 8 with extra keys.
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Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves by [[Elisabeth Bumiller]]
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Raymond Chandler's Typewriter - Mark Coggins by [[Mark Coggins]]
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the lever for later machines was connected with a different sized pin, which makes finding donor machines challenging as pins from the more common newer machines won’t fit the older ones.
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Sybil Davis—who put the machine up for auction after receiving it from her mother, Jean Vounder-Davis—shared this with me in e-mail correspondence after the auction: He was not a “touch typist.” He preferred the “hunt and peck” system using only his two index fingers I … observed him using it on a daily basis.
Raymond Chandler was not a touch typist.
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Matthew also introduced the Type-Away—quiet, dedicated time and space to work on writing projects without distraction. These once-a-month gatherings take place in a library meeting room, as opposed to a coffee shop, to provide an atmosphere for focused writing.
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If you're a more serious writer, you're sure to find a smoother and better experience with a standard typewriter, but they're slightly larger and heavier (~30 pounds vs. ~15-22 pounds) than the portables. These are usually the ones I recommend if you're writing for several hours and have a dedicated space for your writing. Standards aren't as popular with most collectors, so they also tend to be less expensive.
I really love my Royal KMG, HH, and FP and my Remington Standard and Remington 17 which are all serious machines. Here are some of the other more common standards for serious writers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r3533cSZ38
Reply to u/RetailThrowAway69 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1je4owq/new_typewriter_for_a_keyboard_warrior_of_20_years/
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Almost every portable and ultra portable typewriter made from the 1930s onward came with a case that the typewriter locked into. On almost all of these the top of the typewriter case was easily removeable from the base with a spring loaded locking mechanism of some sort. This allowed the user to sit in almost any chair and use the typewriter on their lap. The thin case bottoms prevent dirt and oil from soiling one's clothes.
Beginning in the late 60s/early 70s some manufacturers began making plastic tops that clipped onto the typewriter bodies, but often these are more brittle and prone to breaking/shattering due to the type and age of the plastic. (I'm looking at you Remington Streamliners...)
Our cat used to love "hiding" in the wooden case tops of my 1940s and 1950s Smith-Coronas (Clippers, Sterlings, Silents, Silent Supers).
It's really only the larger and much heavier standard machines that didn't come with cases at all.
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Why don't sellers include type samples in their ads? I mean, it's the core function of a typewriter. It's the reason for this machine to exist in the first place. Are these people so ignorant that they only see the decorative aspect of typewriters? I've even seen machines in "perfect working order" for horrendous prices without a type sample. This is so ridiculous. How on earth could I find a machine with a nice typeface? How do I see if a machine is well aligned? And most of these strange people don't even bother to send a type sample on request, because "the ribbon is dry". Dang!
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No, they're either ignorant or actively trying to hide the fact that their machine was bought for $5 at a yard sale and they're trying to match the pricing of pro shops that have cleaned, oiled, adjusted and repaired a machine which far exceeds the misery they're selling because they have absolutely no idea what goes into a good machine.
People doing the work to show type samples and video of their machines are usually far, far more legitimate. These people are also going to give you $2 of new ribbon for free with purchase.
Without a type sample or video, all but the rarest machines aren't worth more than $20.
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I found on etsy: TheModernTypewriter that sells ribbons. Are they any good?
I've never used them. They're probably alright. Looks like they're specializing in engraved spools more than anything. My guess is that they're buying ribbon in bulk from Baco or Fine Line and passing along the cost and adding some additional profit.
Here's typical bulk pricing:
nylon ribbon $0.10 - $0.15/yard silk ribobn $0.33 to $0.40/yard cotton ribbon $0.25/yard If you can get a spool's worth of nylon ribbon (16 yards) for about $1.50 to $3, do you really want to pay $8 or more plus shipping? If I'm going to do this (usually for small quantities of custom colored ribbon), I'm going to buy it from a local shop to help support them and keep them open.
There are obviously lots of options you can choose from, ultimately you'll do what works best/quickest/cheapest for you.
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It is the fixed nature of caste that distinguishes it from class,a term to which it is often compared. Class is an altogether sepa-rate measure of one’s standing in a society, marked by level ofeducation, income, and occupation, as well as the attendant char-acteristics, such as accent, taste, and manners, that flow from so-cioeconomic status. These can be acquired through hard work andingenuity or lost through poor decisions or calamity. If you can actyour way out of it, then it is class, not caste. Through the years,wealth and class may have insulated some people born to the sub-ordinate caste in America but not protected them from humiliat-ing attempts to put them in their place or to remind them of theircaste position.
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Tied conveniently as it was to what one looked like, member-ship in either the upper or the lowest caste was deemed immuta-ble, primordial, fixed from birth to death, and thus regarded asinescapable. “He may neither earn nor wed his way out,” wrotethe scholars Allison Davis and Burleigh and Mary Gardner in DeepSouth, their seminal 1941 study of caste in America.
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Look into Ambedkar's writings on race, caste, and class.
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These tenets, as interpreted by those who put themselves onhigh, would become the divine and spiritual foundation for thebelief in a human pyramid willed by God, a Great Chain of Being,that the founders would further sculpt in the centuries to follow,as circumstances required. And so we have what could be calledthe first pillar of caste, Divine Will and the Laws of Nature, thefirst of the organizing principles inherent in any caste system.Wilk_9780593230251_all_3p_r1.indd 104 20/6/5 8:28 AM
Given Wilkerson's introductory chapters on knowing and understanding history, I'm heavily disappointed this is the singular reference in the book to "The Great Chain of Being". It's not even indexed in the end.
The underlying idea of the scala naturae across a huge swath of western history is really the thing that gives rise to the problems of American history which she is attempting to bring to life here. Missing this part of the bigger picture is a serious flaw.
Does she skirt it rhetorically so as not to give fuel to the idea that "this is how things have always been?" arguments?
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Tested 100s of heavy desk typewriters, Here is the top 5 revealed. by [[Mr & Mrs Vintage Typewriters]]
Top Five Standard Typewriters:<br /> - Imperial 55 - Imperial 70 (after this they went to cheaper plastic parts); removable carriage, swappable typefaces; removeable core - Hermes Ambassador - removable carriage - Underwood Standards, esp. 5 - Royal 10 (carriage shift); (and subsequent incarnations like the KH, KMM, KMG, HH, FP) - Olympia SG1 (the "crown jewel" of desktop typewriters)
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Here is one from page 102: The beauty of a thought is based on an intuitive assessment of its quality. It enables a "golden link" to my Zettelkasten to the entry point "Concepts of beauty". Today I found a beautiful quote that underlines this concept: We may talk about the elegance of an equation, but we forget to find value in the beauty of a thought. — Marilynne Robinson
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@Edmund I'm intrigued by your note about beauty with respect to information, about which I've got a small tranche of notes forming. You might appreciate this quote from Arthur Eddington in 1927: https://boffosocko.com/2013/09/26/entropy-beauty-melody/
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Bobby pins, staples, safety pins, paper clips ... Postage stamps, coins... Pencils and erasers... Notes, business cards, shopping lists... A dental X-ray -- I think it was a molar. And the other week, a firecracker. One machine I bought for a bargain price, listed as parts/repair, turned out to be nonfunctional because a toothbrush was stuck inside the mechanism. I'm guessing it was originally intended as a cleaning tool, but ended up gumming the works entirely.
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Cleaning with Air Compressors (testing portable air compressors) by [[Just My Typewriter]]
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He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel by [[Ruth Graham]], [[Madeleine Hordinski]]
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“When you look at America,” Mr. Renn said, “the potential we have is unlimited.”
Especially if those who hold all the power and wealth aren't limited (by societal constructs or governmental regulations meant to prevent damage to the lest among us).
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In “negative world,” with the safeguards of “Christian moral norms” out the window, it was too late for liberals to make any coherent critique of Mr. Trump’s open licentiousness.
Yet, somehow it's the Christian Right that's voting for Trump?! How is this an argument? It's not for the liberals to make a critique of something the Christian Right should be doing better at.
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Mr. Renn argues that being a Christian, especially in high-status domains, is now seen as a social negative.
Why care unless you're only after the power and the religion is a secondary thing?
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Nate Fischer is a venture capitalist in Dallas whose current projects include a rural real estate development in Tennessee and Kentucky that he has marketed to conservatives. (Mr. Isker has said he planned to move there.) Mr. Fischer has been reading Mr. Renn’s work since around 2019. He asked Mr. Renn to have a drink with him in Manhattan when Mr. Fischer was there taking a weeklong course in “real world risk” organized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a thinker both he and Mr. Renn cite frequently.
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Mr. Renn’s description of the contours of “negative world” range widely, and include the spread of sports gambling, legalized drug use and even tattoos. But the framework might not have electrified evangelical America if not for the perception on the right of a new secular orthodoxy around sex, gender and race. When you ask someone who embraces the term to discuss their own experiences in “negative world,” the answer is almost always connected with this cluster of issues.
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“These guys have cracked the code on reaching young men, and they’re actually giving a lot of practical advice,” Mr. Renn said. “And by the way, some of the things that the church is telling these guys is just wrong.”
An evangelical saying that what the church is telling guys is "just wrong"?!? This requires some self-reflection on the part of the speaker...
I'm curious what is the right thing in his framing?
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Evangelical churches lamented divorce even as they criticized the same forms of traditional masculinity that the manosphere was instructing him to hone, in order to improve his marriage prospects.
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What he does write about with some frequency is the fact that women initiate a distinct majority of divorces.
I'm curious why he should be doing this? Is he anti-woman? Is he irked that women now have some power and autonomy? He apparently writes a lot about masculinity according to earlier in the article. Is masculinity only defined in contrast with femininity and control over the feminine?
What about Gods design that women should be equals? Link to Genesis story about not naming the woman until after the trouble.
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He sought out a church in Chicago and settled in, following a trajectory described by the 20th-century sociologist E. Digby Baltzell: The typical American is born a Baptist or Methodist, becomes a Presbyterian once he is educated, and then, after ascending to the heights of economic success, “joins a fashionable Episcopal church in order to satisfy his wife’s social ambitions.”
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Perhaps it's the creation of a myth whereby a Christian can break the Golden Rule, but still want the power and respect that their religion previously gave them that is causing the friction that modern Christians might be seeing?
Can it really be "Christian persecution" if they're not really Christ-ians?
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About a decade ago, around the time that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, Mr. Renn says the United States became “negative world."
Why can't Renn point to a more specific issue that actually impacts Christianity directly? How someone else chooses to identify and live, particularly people who are frequently Christian, shouldn't effect Christians in the sort of way he's proposing.
Besides "power over" others, what sort of Christianity is he really espousing? Where is the "love your neighbor?" or "do unto others?" in his religion?
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When ideas have sex by [[Matt Ridley]] for TED Global 2010
Watched ages ago...
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In some places, it was a type of house-visiting tradition when ploughmen would take a plough from house to house threatening to plough up front lawns if they weren't given food/drink/money.
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via In which I describe my writing “methods." by [[Alan Jacobs]]
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@ayjay Thanks for sharing this. My method is often very much like yours. Lots of internal distillation, slowly over time. I remember hearing a story that Mozart wrote music "like a cow pees" (in one giant and immediate flood and then done). I feel like large works of writing, composing, etc. springing, as if fully formed from the head of Zeus is more common than is acknowledged. Cory Doctorow hints at a similar sort of method in his own work in The Memex Method. I'm also reminded of bits of what neuroscientist Barbara Oakley calls "diffuse thinking" or a more internalized version of Michael Ondaatje's "thinkering" described in The English Patient.
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How I display my typewriters (and a Q&A) by [[Just My Typewriter]]
Sarah uses WD-40 on the black enamel of older 20s-30s era typewriters to clean and polish them.
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In the US I've been seeing them go for around $250 based only on photos without any additional information about whether they work or other condition.
Platforms like eBay and ShopGoodwill.com will allow you to search for actual sales (see the advanced settings) and this will give you a much better picture of what the prices are versus people listing them for several hundred more (usually to match the prices of professional shops that are listing theirs in cleaned, oiled, and adjusted condition). (Remember when shopping: Condition is king!)
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- https://shopgoodwill.com/categories/listing?st=hermes%20typewriter&sg=&c=&s=&lp=0&hp=999999&sbn=&spo=false&snpo=false&socs=false&sd=false&sca=true&caed=3%2F5%2F2025&cadb=90&scs=false&sis=false&col=1&p=1&ps=40&desc=false&ss=0&UseBuyerPrefs=true&sus=true&cln=1&catIds=&pn=&wc=false&mci=false&hmt=false&layout=grid&ihp=
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Keep in mind that prices may be dramatically different in your country based on how ubiquitous they were when they were originally manufactured.
Expect to add $150-200+ for script or rarer typefaces, and another \~$150 if the platen has been recovered.
$550 would not be uncommon if purchasing a pica or elite Hermes 3000 with a standard typeface in generally good cosmetic shape that's been professionally cleaned, oiled, and adjusted by a shop.
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Glycerine, castor oil, and mineral oil are suitable;€.8. 15 per cent arachis (ground nut) oil, 15 per cent sperm oil, 70 per cent mineraloil.
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T.H. Dixon and Co. Ltd, are one firm making machines for typewriter ribbon€.
T.H. Dixon & Co. Ltd. manufactured machines for typewriter ribbon processing and had a method for spraying a coating to the edges of ribbons in a special chamber to prevent the edges of the ribbon from fraying. (p219)
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A furtherrefinementinmaking two-colourribbonsisthe useofacentreliningmachine, which automatically drawsathininsulatinglineon theribbon.A transparentgumsolutionispumpedbyairpressure througha stainless needle whichpreventsthecolours from running.
Center lining machines are used to make bichrome typewriter ribbon. It operates by drawing an insulating line on the ribbon and transparent gum solution is pumped through a needle using pneumatic pressure to keep the two colors from running into each other.
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sk8rcruz 0 points1 point2 points 2 days ago (0 children)I’ll start by saying I love the database! This link is to my current collection but my sightings and formerly owned have been a lot of fun too.
r/sk8cruz = LaDonna Qualtieri https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=6493&collection_search=My+Collection
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Typewriter Video Series - Episode 74: Choosing Typewriter Bags by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
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Late nights at his typewriter turned into blurry mornings, with little to show on paper.
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System, the Magazine of Business, volume XLII, Number 5, November 1922, p536, "What 55 Years in Business Taught Me About Managing: The first installment of the biography of John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register Company and Lately Chairman of the Board" by Samuel Crowther.
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Correcting Bad Typing Habits with the Smith Corona Electric Typewriter 63024 by [[PeriscopeFilm]]
Motion should happen only at the level of the fingers and not at the wrist or even the arms. Type only with your fingers and not your wrists or arms.
Allow the carriage to glide to complete the carriage return rather than wasting addition time and energy on pushing it all the way. Let the momentum do the work.
Use the paper release when removing letters to reduce wear on your rollers and prevent ripping of the paper.
Drop the paper into the top of the platen and against the paper guide to improve alignment can save time.
Setting the right hand margin will help save huge amounts of time from the transcriptionist looking back and forth to get proper margins otherwise.
Using correct typing for numerals will speed up typing numbers as well.
For the top tabulator, use your index fingers alternately instead of hitting it with your entire hand.
Hugging the keys with your fingers allows you to type faster, much like a drummer keeps the sticks closer to the drumhead when drumming quickly.
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Smith Corona Manual Typewriter Shift Lock Adjustment Latch Repair Upper Case Letters by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
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Olympia SM-3 Vintage Typewriter, Repaired Adjusted Shift Lock by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
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Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals, and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir by Bill Madden<br /> Release date: April 1, 2025 (hardcover)
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Joe is recovering from hip surgery in January 2025.
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Portable typewriters give up a level of professionalism in one's documents for their size and ease of portability.
In particular, the slug alignments may be slightly off compared to larger machines. Ideally they allow for one to be good enough, especially for first draft documents or journaling.
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Back in the day people used custom erasers for erasing. They were much harder than the softer erasers in use now, which is why modern pencil and art erasers don't work as well. For some historical methods, see these videos or here.
Secretaries also used small eraser shields to target individual letters, words, or lines. They also used larger curved shields for erasing within carbon copy packs.
Eaton used to make Ko-rec-type tabs which could be inserted for short corrections and it can still be found online as old stock.
There was also bichrome ribbon with white correction tape, but that tends to fleck off and make a mess in your machine over time. Similarly White Out is still made, but it can spill and make a mess while you wait for it to dry.
For modern typists, hand-held correction tape is probably the quickest and easiest.
This could be expanded for the widest range of history on erasing using typewriters with caveats, etc.
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Remington Rand KMC Standard Typewriter, Ring Style, Noiseless, 1/2", Install, Replace Ink Ribbon by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
Without the Remington ribbon rings, one can utilize the slots in coordination with grommets to thread up a Remington typewriter.
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Generally my cap for typewriter purchases is in the $20-35 range. Most of my favorite machines (the standards) were acquired for $5-10 and they're so much better than the portables. At these prices I'm not too worried about the level of work required. I regularly spend 3-4 times more money on a full reel of bulk typewriter ribbon than I do on a typical typewriter.
A few of my more expensive acquisitions: * I went as high as $100 on a machine (including shipping) to get a Royal Quiet De Luxe with a Vogue typeface that turned out to be in about as stunning a condition as one could hope for. * I went to $130 on an Olympia SM3 in part for it's Congress elite typeface as well as an uncommon set of mathematical characters. I'm sure I could have gotten it for significantly less, but wanted to help out the seller and it was in solid condition except for worn bushings. * I also went to around $150 for an (uncommon in the US) early 30's Orga Privat 5 that was in solid shape. I've yet to run into another Orga in the wild in the US since.
It also bears saying that I don't mind buying "barn machines" as a large portion of the fun in collecting for me is cleaning, adjusting, and restoring them to full functionality. I've been dissapointed once to have bought a Remington Quiet-Riter once for $10 only to discover it was in near mint condition and didn't need any work at all.
I am at the point where I'm going to need to start selling machines, work at a local shop, or start my own shop if I'm going to keep up with the "hobby" and maintain a sane spouse simultaneously. If I didn't enjoy wrenching on machines so much, I would definitely be buying them from local shops for significantly more money, and I'd probably have far fewer.
It's not talked about in great length in some typewriter collector spaces, but I think some of the general pricing "game", beyond just getting a "deal", is the answer to the questions: "What am I into this space for anyway? What makes it fun and interesting?" If you don't have the time, talent, tools, or inclination to do your own cleaning and restoration work, then paying $300-$600 for a nice machine in exceptional clean/restored condition from a shop is a totally valid choice and shouldn't be dismissed. Some are in it for the discussions of typewriters. Some are in it for the bargain hunt. Some just want to write. Some want rare gems. Some want common machines from famous writers. Others just want one "good" machine while others want all the machines. It's a multi-faceted space.
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Found via https://typewriterdatabase.com/1956-underwood-de-luxe.24945.typewriter
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Why Are Some Of Our Most Successful Leaders Mentally Ill? by [[Ian Leslie]]
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Fits into an earlier theory about insane leaders... where's the source?
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In fact, the crucial attribute shared by Milei, Musk and Trump - along with bottomless energy, idées fixe, and relentless will - is a lack of empathy. (It’s also true, to lesser or greater degrees, of successful leaders from the past, like Thatcher and De Gaulle.) Living in a closed-off mental world is not conducive to good relationships or to happiness, and it’s often a disadvantage in politics (and business). But in certain circumstances, an empathy deficit flips into being a superpower. It turns out that if you don’t care about pleasing people, you can get very popular.
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The investor-entrepreneur Peter Thiel - whose own sanity is a topic of some debate - once noted that the disproportionate success of autistic founders in Silicon Valley is no accident. Many good ideas seem crazy until they work. Good listeners tend to be too easily convinced that their potentially transformative idea will never take off. Those impervious to social pressure, for whatever neurological or psychological reason, have the tunnel vision required to blast through mountains of scepticism and inertia.
direct source for this?
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In the 1960s, the psychiatrist R.D. Laing argued that insane individuals were operating according to a hidden rationality, adopting strategies forced upon them by repressive and dishonest families. Society was mad, not them. Psychotic individuals often named uncomfortable truths about their families that others were invested in denying. Laing’s theory is now discredited within psychiatry, but in the symbolic world of politics it still resonates. Only the desequilibrado have the audacity and agency to take on an unhealthy, entrenched status quo.
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