🌲When Themed Logs are More Useful than Daily Notes by [[Eleanor Konik]]
Konik seems to have realized that filing things topically can be a valuable practice as if this wasn't the mode of the day for centuries now. How did the daily note become such a thing that this was lost? Is it the focus on notebook-based bullet journals? Programmers creating daily notes?
On This Day in Typewriter History (LXXIV) by [[Robert Messenger]]
When Real Life Calls for a Cheesy Rom-Com Gesture by [[James Nikopoulos]]
80 Years Later, Are We Still on ‘The Road to Serfdom’? by [[Rainer Zitelman]]
Ref. by PM
8 questions for Alton Brown who is coming to the Riverside, Boswell Books by [[Molly Snyder]], Published Apr 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Californian Ideology by [[Richard Barbrook]], and [[Andy Cameron]] on 1 September 1995
Such people may live in the same objective physical space, but their subjective experience of it is entirely different, because the ‘read’ reality in a very different way.
for - edit - grammatical error? - "read"
Sierra Madre Firefighters Quickly Contain Vehicle Fire
Evie said she saw/was aware of this at school.
Peter Doherty non è mai stato così vivo by [[Raffaella Oliva]]
Pete Doherty: To anyone struggling with addiction, just hang on – for more than ten years I've been powerless, but there's a way out by [[Pete Doherty]] for [[The Independent]]
20s/30s Remington Portable?
"Unbelievable": Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan by [[Andrew Solender]]
Scheil, Andrew. Review of Michael D. Reeve, ed., Neil Wright, trans. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae), by Michael D. Reeve. The Journal of Medieval Latin 19 (January 2009): 318–21. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JML.3.39.
Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks by [[Patrick George]] for The Atlantic
LaPierre, Suzanne S. “BiblioTech: Typewriters in Libraries.” Computers in Libraries 45, no. 2 (March 2025): 24–26. https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/mar25/index.shtml.
Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left, report says by [[Gustaf Kilander]]
Turboplaten Type by [[Daniel Marleau]]
https://www.recordholders.org/en/records/typing.html
19,890 pages/1000 ribbons is approximately 19 pages per ribbon.
Marked to read later
5 takeaways from Tuesday's elections, including bad news for Elon Musk by [[Domenico Montanaro]]
We show that sylph’s ANI estimation is accurate and apply it to species-level profiling through a principled 95% ANI cutoff
Read this paper to figure out why 95% cutoff is called "Principled"
Newsletter #40: What to Do When Your Wife Divorces You by [[Aaron M. Renn]]
The Nonwriter's Guide to Writing A Lot by [[James Horton]]
Horton describes writing as a top down process rather than a bottom up one, but tries to frame it in a bottom up one. No wonder people have issues with writing, especially non-fiction stuff. Too many different processes going on all at once in too many directions.
European PKM Summit 2025 (Part 2) by [[Malik Alimoekhamedov]]
One Dead Media by [[Kevin Kelly]]
A Type-In to Say Goodbye to a New England Institution by Scott Cacciola and Jillian Freyer for New York Times 2025-03-24
How Mid-Century 'Emojis' Were Created on Typewriters by [[Lori Dorn]]
Two poets to open a typewriter and book shop in Garfield Park by [[Sophie Young]]
recently opened typewriter repair shops, 2025
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.
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.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/archive/archive-collections/verkn%C3%BCpfungszwang-exhibition
Aby Warburg's Zettelkasten and the search for interconnection by [[Richard Griffiths]]
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.
Beyond the Type-In by [[Woz Flint]]
The Apothecary's Typewriter by Scott K on 2012-12-14
He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel by [[Ruth Graham]], [[Madeleine Hordinski]]
Honouring Amaethon on Plough Monday? by [[Kris Hughes]]
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-memex-method-238c71f2fb46
Original version (or owned copy) at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/
Local writers host ‘typewriter revivals’ by [[Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin]]
Apps, E. A. “Typewriter Inks.” In Inks for the Minor Printing Processes and Specialised Applications, p218-221 of xix, 295. 1963. Reprint, London: Hill, 1966. http://archive.org/details/typewriter-inks.
Rosenwald, Michael S. “Peter Elbow, Professor Who Transformed Freshman Comp, Dies at 89.” The New York Times, February 27, 2025, sec. Education. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/education/peter-elbow-dead.html.
Which states get more federal money than they send by [[Alex Fitzpatrick]] for Axios
Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump by [[Isabel van Brugen]]
Slow the transition to clean energy
Interesting, I would disagree as a gut feeling. Read more
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/
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
