Down All the Days (2013 Mix)<br /> by [[ThePoguesOfficial]] on YouTube accessed on 2025-10-23T08:36:17

some lovely poetry in this...

relation to projects like Donut Economics?

Making Custom Typewriter Rubber Stamps<br /> by Sam on Neo-Renaissance<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T14:12:54

The Second Brain Scam<br /> by [[Corey Carvalho]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T13:44:26

How the Trump administration is dramatically reshaping education in America<br /> by [[John Yang]] of PBS at PBS News Weekend accessed on 2025-10-22T12:01:15

Interview with Jennifer Smith Richards of ProPublica

Anti-DEI, Anti-CRT bills

The magical source behind your favorite pastrami sandwiches and chili dogs<br /> by [[By Josh Heller]] for LAist<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T11:56:41

http://johnsargentbarnard.com/Ribbon_Shutter/

Interesting UI for IndieWeb Challenges or events like 100 Days (https://indieweb.org/100_days).

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/1nreyfx/letters_by_radio_science_and_invention_artist/

“Letters by radio”, Science and Invention, (Artist Unknown) 1922<br />

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o8lzdm/trying_to_id_a_typewriter_from_a_video_game/

Folklore (2007, PlayStation 3)

https://www.instagram.com/nprfreshair/reel/DNVlf2tMstg/?hl=en

Terry Gross reading a book has rendered it useless for others to read.

Dog earing of top corner for interesting sections or questions she may have for the author.

Dog earing bottom corner as an indicator of remembering facts for the intro or for sentences she wants to quote.

Uses front of book for connecting themes and focus, so she won't forget it.

Introductions/prologues for quick overviews of what the book is about and why they wrote it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNYh6b_uBwd/?hl=en

Terry Gross reads slowly to start and speeds up as she continues. She annotates and dog-ears as she reads and then makes notes and questions after she's done.

<br /> via https://www.facebook.com/misfitsmarket/posts/1196992682465751

New Yorker Staff. 2007. “The Typing Life: How Writers Used to Write.” The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/09/the-typing-life (October 22, 2025).

typewriter plays a central role in the story

source? original quote?

via Darren Herschler-Henry's book

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1098284832490290/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o8o98j/comment/njx2pgo/?context=1

Haul Out the Halloween (2025), Hallmark Movie

via Aaron Mitchell at https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1102482705403836/

Typewriter Typebar Holding Rack by grifter7 - Thingiverse<br /> by [[grifter7]] on [[Thingiverse.com]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T10:26:22

Tool: Typebar Sorting Rack

pbtpocket<br /> by [[Kaveh Shahbazian]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T10:25:25

Make Pocketmods (little Booklets) With MS Word : 3 Steps<br /> by [[Instructables]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T10:24:10

UPDATED Watch Woody Allen's Interview with Bill Maher: "Sunset Boulevard" (the Movie) is "Fun Junk," "Streetcar" is "Perfect" - Showbiz411<br /> by [[Roger Friedman]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T10:20:51

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o9bpgu/isnt_it_woddys_long_lost_ribbon_cover/

Woody Allen reported in a documentary that he'd lost his cover for his Olympia SM3, but it appears to be on his desk in this undated photo.

https://pocketmod.com/

reply to u/warriorkitten18 at https://reddit.com/r/adhdwomen/comments/1mqzm12/index_card_system_please_discuss/

Apologies for the delay in reply. I've read extensively about card indexes for productivity and the variety of systems and uses over the past couple of centuries.

Given your context, I'd recommend reading one book which describes an index card system in full, walks you through it card by card, helps you make it, and describes how it's used. It's thorough, but fully adaptable to your particular needs. Best, it's written by two women in the early 1980s and though there wasn't much in the culture about ADHD at the time, I suspect that one or both of these women were coping with nearby neurodivergent issues (not to mention the eternal brain fog forced by pregnancy, lack of sleep, and early childhood woes.)

Young, Pam, and Peggy Jones. 1981. Sidetracked Home Executives: From Pigpen to Paradise. ed. Sydney Craft Rozen. New York: Warner Books. http://archive.org/details/sidetrackedhomee00youn (November 3, 2023).

If you need other perspectives, there are also areas with potential solutions like the Bullet Journal (notebooks), Getting Things Done (GTD), Hipster PDA, and a variety of others. Almost all of these were built on the ideas behind the early 1900s version of the Memindex, which I've written about here: https://boffosocko.com/2023/03/09/the-memindex-method-an-early-precursor-of-the-memex-hipster-pda-43-folders-gtd-basb-and-bullet-journal-systems/. They're all roughly the same in shape, practice, and philosophy, but the Young/Jones SHE version uses index cards, speaks directly to your use case, and suggests an approach for the ADHD set. Assuredly a nearby library can get you a copy, you can find them used, or read the linked online version which you can check out.

If you'd like to see portions of my personal system, I've written a bit about it along with lots of other resources at https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/#Productivity

It's worked well for me for many years. The secret is to read the basics and then adapt the pieces of the system to suit your own needs and methods of working. For example, I love crossing things off of lists, which my index cards didn't really encourage because you do them and move them to the next day/week/month/year forward, but I bought a rotating date stamp that allows me to stamp each card with the date as "done" before re-filing it. For me, the haptic feedback of the "thonk" of the stamp is even better than crossing things off and gives me a sense of accomplishment when I see them and finish filling an entire card up with dates.

A decade on, the best part of my collection are the separate index cards I had laying around while using the rest of the system and on which I wrote down quotes from my daughter, new words as she learned them, words she made up, goofy jokes, etc.

Enough for now, the card for the dog groomer came up yesterday, so I'm off to take our dog to the appointment I made when I saw it. Thonk! Refiled for next month's reminder.

Good luck.

Susan Stamberg, NPR 'founding mother,' dies at 87 : NPR<br /> by [[David Folkenflik]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-16T22:54:04

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutton%27s_Books

advice via Nashville Typewriter, a repair person. <br /> https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o4qxvn/chasing_problems_stuck_keys/

(Buying a Typewriter<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]] and [[Bob Marshall]] of Typewriter Muse on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2025-10-16T09:27:44

Bob Marshall prefers "extreme collector" to "hoarder" when it comes to typewriter collecting.

In July 20222, Bob Marshall was charging $60/hour for typewriter service.

Carbon Paper Duplication<br /> by [[OrcaType]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2025-10-16T09:17:15

Benefits of wax carbon paper over film-based carbon paper:<br /> - darker printing<br /> - better shelf-life

Benefits of film-based carbon paper over wax carbon paper:<br /> - crumple resistant<br /> - smudge resistant<br /> - sharper text over generations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vy2ht2t4pI

https://christmas.musetechnical.com/

Catalogs & Wishbooks from Sears, Montgomery Ward, and JC Penny

Montgomery Ward Typewriters 1941-1985, Signatures, Forwards and Escorts and why certain rare Royal Typefaces can be found on Brother Typewriters!<br /> by [[Ted Munk]] on 2022-011-25<br /> accessed on 2025-10-15T19:49:10

https://typecast.munk.org/2022/11/25/montgomery-ward-typewriters-1941-1985-signatures-forwards-and-escorts-and-why-certain-rare-royal-typefaces-can-be-found-on-brother-typewriters/

According to Ted Munk, "Spencerian Script only occurs on Montgomery Ward Brothers and not on any other Brother-manufactured machines"

1961 NOMDA Adding Machine Age List<br /> by [[Ted Munk] on December 19, 2012<br /> accessed on 2025-10-15T19:30:27

DIY/How-To: Wrinkle texture paint – Build Threads<br /> by [[Build Threads]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-15T19:25:29

How to make the best possible translation of a book? | Derek Sivers<br /> by [[Derek Sivers]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-15T19:19:44

Lanier, Jaron. 2006. “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism.” Edge.org. https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-digital-maoism-the-hazards-of-the-new-online-collectivism (October 11, 2025).

Reply to u/EnvronmentalAngle at https://reddit.com/r/NoteTaking/comments/1o4zfjk/i_never_learned_how_to_take_notes_on_books_does/

I never learned how to take notes on books. Does anyone know of any good guides? Most I find are geared towards college students.

Given the things you're reading and what your ultimate goals on remembering and thinking may be, I'll make a few recommendations I think will be highly useful:

Start with Adler's short article on How to Mark a Book: - Adler, Mortimer J. 1940. “How to Mark a Book.” Saturday Review of Literature 6: 250–52. https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1940jul06-00011/ (January 11, 2023). (Alternate .pdf copy: https://docdrop.org/download_annotation_doc/Adler---1940---How-to-Mark-a-Book-fehef.pdf)

Then move on to his more thorough work with Van Doren about how to read. It's relatively short and easy to read, particularly the beginning which might seem almost too easy and straightforward. Don't be lulled into a false sense of security though, as the final sections have some incredibly interesting and subtle ideas that many people, including the college educated broadly ignore. - Adler, Mortimer J., and Charles Van Doren. 2011. How to Read a Book: The Classical Guide to Intelligent Reading. Revised and Updated edition. Touchstone.

While you're reading it, you might appreciate a television version they made to support their ideas in the mid-1970s. In it they talk about some of the very books you're trying to tackle and how you might get more out of them. (The titles on the YouTube page are in Portuguese, but the show itself is in the original English.) - How to Read a Book. 1975. Los Angeles: KCET Los Angeles. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPajsb520dyzNw9mHsZnrzi5w9N_amS7E (September 30, 2023).

While you're doing this, perhaps take a brief glimpse at how Adler (and many of his friends and colleagues) were taking notes on index cards to tear apart great books to better understand what was in them. https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/2623/mortimer-j-adlers-syntopicon-a-topically-arranged-collaborative-slipbox

Whether you take your notes in your books (as Adler did) or write them on index cards or in a notebook or commonplace book as others have, you'll be well on your way to both better understanding and longer term remembering.

Good luck in your reading!'

edit: replaced dead link to .pdf

https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o74l0c/hello_i_have_had_this_royal_qdl_1949_model/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o77cpz/made_my_own_service_booklet/

In Search Of: Clarence Leroy “Rocky” Jones<br /> by [[Ted Munk]] on November 12, 2016 <br /> accessed on 2025-10-15T11:15:17

Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter<br /> by [[Josh Jones]] in Open Culture<br /> accessed on 2025-10-13T23:01:35

reply to u/EdmundDante718 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o5x527/missing_carriage_releases_on_scm/

It's incredibly common for these 6 series Smith-Coronas to have broken plastic carriage release levers (a major design flaw). You can call around to shops with parts machines for original replacements. https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html

There are numerous YouTube repair videos and ideas including these few I've bookmarked before, though there are surely others: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNcQvfUk23s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb9VlrKcXcM

I've not seen anyone 3-D print a version (yet), but designs for one might be floating around out there.

I've also seen people jury rig all sorts of plastic replacements which is an option as well.

In practice, you generally only need one working one for your dominant hand.

Adler, Mortimer J. 1940. “How to Mark a Book.” Saturday Review of Literature 6: 250–52. https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1940jul06-00011/ (January 11, 2023).

Annotations: https://via.hypothes.is/https://docdrop.org/download_annotation_doc/Adler---1940---How-to-Mark-a-Book-fehef.pdf

Annotations alternate: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=chrisaldrich&max=100&exactTagSearch=true&expanded=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fdownload_annotation_doc%2FAdler---1940---How-to-Mark-a-Book-fehef.pdf

Prior [.pdf copy]9https://stevenson.ucsc.edu/academics/stevenson-college-core-courses/how-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf): - Annotations https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=url%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fstevenson.ucsc.edu%2Facademics%2Fstevenson-college-core-courses%2Fhow-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf<br /> - Alternate annotation link https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=chrisaldrich&max=100&exactTagSearch=true&expanded=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstevenson.ucsc.edu%2Facademics%2Fstevenson-college-core-courses%2Fhow-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf

Summary

• Marking a book helps in increasing "the most efficient kind of reading."
• The marked (pun intended) difference between physical vs. intellectual ownership of books
• 3 types of book owners:
  • 1. collector of wood pulp and ink
  • 1. one whose read most and dipped into some
  • 1. one who's annotated and sucked the marrow out of them
• Active reading (annotating and staying awake) and engaging deeply, arguing with, and questioning the author is the point of reading.
• A historical record of your active reading allows you to continue the conversation you've had with the author and yourself. (p12)
• Adler's method of reading and marking:
  1. Underlining major points of importance
  2. Vertical lines for emphasis
  3. Marginal marks (stars, asterisks, etc.) (10-20 per book) to indicate the most important statements in conjunction with dogearing these pages for making it easier to find them subsequently
  4. Numbers in the margin to sequence arguments
  5. Page numbers in the margin for linking ideas across pages, ostensibly for juxtaposing them later
  6. Circling key words or phrases (unsaid here, but this is helpful for indexing as well as helping one to come to terms with the author)
  7. Marginal writing for synopsis of sections as well as questions raised by the text; use of endpapers for a personal index of ideas presented chronologically throughout the book
• Objections to marking books:
  • Using scratch pad (or index cards, which he doesn't mention specifically, but which could be implied) so as not to destroy a precious or rare physical copy (this is a repetition from earlier in the article)
  • Marking slows you down. This is part of the point! Slowing down makes you engage with the author and get more out of the text.
  • You can't loan books because they contain your important thoughts which you don't want to give away (and lose the historical record of your thinking). Solution: Simply require friends to buy their own copy.

This practice is not too dissimilar to that used by zettelkasten practitioners (including Niklas Luhmann) who broadly used his bibliographic cards this way.

By separating his index and ideas from the book and putting them into a physical index, it makes them easier to juxtapose with other ideas over time rather than having them anchored directly to the book itself. For academics and researchers, this will tend to help save time from having to constantly retrieve these portions from individual books.

This poke at "fancy" bookplates is a rhetorical call back to those who would attempt to weakly show only physical and not intellectual ownership by "pasting his bookplate inside the cover."

Was "fancy thinking" used in a pejorative sense prior to this article? Are subsequent uses of it poking fun of the parallelism (to fancy bookplates) which Adler sets up here?

The making of a personal index is a first step in building a mesh of knowledge. In just a few years, Vannevar Bush will speak of "associative trails" a phrase he uses twice in "As We May Think" (The Atlantic, July 1945), but of potentially more import is his phrase "associative indexing" which lays way to either juxtaposing or linking two ideas (either similar or disjoint) together. It bears asking the question of of whether it's more valuable to index and juxtapose similar ideas or disjoint ideas which may more frequently lead to better, more useful, and more relevant and rich future ideas.

It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing. Bush, Vannevar. 1945. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic 176: 101–8. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ (October 22, 2022). #

Adler creates a very specific and subtle definition of ownership as it applies to books.

It's not too dissimilar to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's idea of ownership or love of people. "Unique to me in all the world"

Many have spoken of "books as wallpaper" or "intellectual furniture", but here Mortimer J. Adler goes beyond owning them solely as material culture, but turning them into intellectual and personal culture.

When they sit upon the shelf after being intellectually owned, they can serve as a mnemonic touchstone, which is a method of supercharging their value as lowly "decorative wallpaper", and instead making them living active, intellectual wallpaper.

See also the precursor of personal indexing which Mortimer J. Adler mentions in 1940: https://hypothes.is/a/cPcoAqhVEfC0rJOZ0Pm-8Q

What’s Going On With Marjorie Taylor Greene?<br /> by [[Will Gottsegen]] - The Atlantic<br /> accessed on 2025-10-12T16:47:40

Cleaning Type Slugs Fast ! Removing Clogged Dirty Ink Typewriter Service How to Shine Those Faces by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]

Duane cleans type slugs by draping the typewriter with cloths and then using a metal bristle brush and lacquer thinner. Small picks or an X-Acto knife can help to remove gunk from the interiors of the closed letters.

He also uses tape to cover up the red paint on the word "De Luxe" so that the lacquer thinner doesn't damage it.

He finishes off with a small shot of Nu-trol, which is a degreaser with some lubrication, and then follows up with a shot of compressed air to thin it out.

The slugs are the metal pieces at the ends of the assemblies that start at the tops of the keys and go through the key levers attach to the segment (the semi-circular metal comb-like part in the "basket") via the typebars. The slugs are the ones that have the backward characters on them and when they hit the ribbon cause the letters to be applied to the paper. Over time the small loops of the characters can get filled with dust, dirt, ink, and bits of ribbon and as a result the type on your page isn't as crisp and good looking as you'd like.

Here's a handful of videos with a variety of methods for cleaning one's slugs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s8tE6P0YMQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgSAS45WGI0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKGipBLA5Eo

You'll notice that for the day-to-day cleaning that people are using kneadable erasers, silly putty, or products like Bergeon Rodico 6033-1 as cleaning compounds for pulling ink and dust out quickly.

There are some good basics and a great glossary in Hints for a Happy Typewriter: https://typewriterdatabase.com/1983-Hints4HappyTypewriter.index.manual

I've also collected some great mid-century short films on use and basic maintenance here: https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/06/typewriter-use-and-maintenance-for-beginning-to-intermediate-typists/

Other resources you might find interesting: https://boffosocko.com/research/typewriter-collection/

reply to u/DatLonerGirl at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o33p7n/when_was_the_last_time_you_cleaned_your_slugs/

Hart, Keith, Jean-Louis Laville, and Antonio David Cattani, eds. 2010. The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide. 1st ed. Malden, MA; Cambridge, UK: Polity. https://amzn.to/4q7hwTi (October 11, 2025).

Annotations: urn:x-pdf:c0c4b707a9de803a95b50ebebe19c70c

Alternate annotation link: urn:x-pdf:c0c4b707a9de803a95b50ebebe19c70c

Royal KMM FPE HH KH 10 T1 B64 Typewriter Ribbon Install Rewind Respool Replace by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]

The spools for the standard Royal typewriters (Ten, H, KH, KHM, KMM, KMG, RP, HH, FP, Empress, 440, 660, etc.) have a custom metal mechanism for their auto-reverse. The spools are known as the T1 (which is the same as General Ribbon part # T1-77B , T1-77BR, and Nu-Kote B64.) If winding on universal ribbon onto them, remove the eyelette which isn't needed and may interfere with the auto reverse.

The function of the mechanism is fairly similar to that of the Remington, but the mechanism is on the spool itself rather than on the spindle.

If necessary, Ribbons Unlimited carries these metal spools: https://www.ribbonsunlimited.com/6N064-Royal-Standard-Electric-Ribbon-64-p/6n064.htm

Tools of the typewriter trade by [[Retrotype]]

Excellent overview of many of the basic tools for typewriter repair. Didn't have the strongest grasp of all the tools' specific names, but good enough for describing their general use cases.

Example of a typewriter toolset including a case made for telephone company repair, but which works with typewriters.

• Shore A durometer gauge 2:22
• nylon fishing/picture hanging wire spec to 25kg (for drawband replacement)
• thick waxed string/yarn for repairing fishing nets (for drawbands)
• nitrile gloves (to prevent staining, issues with mineral spirits, and other caustic chemicals)
• XPower pressure blower for blowing out dust/dirt and mineral spirits. (smaller than an air compressor)
• nail grooming set with tweezers, picks, etc. (not technically necessary, but sometimes useful)
• dental tools (for use as spring hooks)
• Renaissance micro-crystalline wax (non-corrosive, made for British Museum, good on marble, wood, leather, etc. Good on bare metal for treating previously rusted metal. (It's recommended to use an abrasive polish for improving the shine of glossy paint however)
• Pouch and set of precision screwdrivers (he only uses the flatheads though the set includes other) Prefer hollow ground tips which are squared off rather than wedges.
• Chapman bit set of screwdrivers (with hollow ground tips) He prefers these for hard to remove screws. Issue that it's a bit thicker at the tip.
• Liquid wrench penetrating oil for helping to loosen screws (he likes this better than WD-40)
• brash wire brushes
• steel wire brushes (uses less frequently as they're more abrasive)
• pouch of precision wrenches (imperial and metric) his are bladed, Moody tools wrenches (mfg.) prefer the thinnest tips
• microfiber cloths
• jig for soldering typeslugs on typearms
• pouch with various typewriter specific pliers:
  • 3 prong pliers (total of 9 prongs) for making bends/forming typebars (especially making bends in the middle of bars rather than the end.;
  • peening bend pliers;
  • bending pliers for sideways bends esp. with thinner typebars;
  • vertical adjustment pliers (with rollers) not good for making adjustments of 3mm or more;
  • forming pliers with screws on the end to rotate heads for bending, peening and cutting;
  • peening pliers (bending by metal displacement)
• Magnetized screwdrivers
• forceps
• screw grabber (active capture)
• spring hooks (push/pull)
• nylon brushes for dusting
• needle nose pliers
• t-bender with slotted head for forming metal
• small bottles for mineral spirits and sewing machine oil. They have small metal tips for precision application.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZNKLmIg2dc

Ron's Reviews - YouTube<br /> by [[Parks and Recreation]] <br /> accessed on 2025-10-06T22:21:10

Ron's Typewriter - YouTube<br /> by [[Parks and Recreation]] <br /> accessed on 2025-10-06T22:09:41

Someone who indicates that they use both "commonplace book" and "zettelkasten" systems. I'm curious how they differentiate the two, particularly because they seem to both be done on index cards.

Sort of sounds like zettles are her own ideas vs. commonplace for the ideas of others.

At 4:40 she seems to use linear numbering on her zettels and not Luhmann-artig numbering.

No. 113 New Feature! The ZIS: Zettelkasten Information Superhighway • Buttondown<br /> by [[Bob Doto]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-06T16:40:32

Bachman, George, and Lawrence Narici. Functional Analysis. Academic Press, 1966. Reprint: Dover Publications, 2000.

https://github.com/alangrainger/obsidian-air-quotes

An Obsidian plugin that can pull quotes from digital files into specific notes.

Found via: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/using-hypothes-is-to-quickly-place-notes-into-my-digital-notebook/5010/29

https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nyozfk/what_are_these/

Smith-Corona Electra users:<br /> - Joyce Carol Oates - Electra 220<br /> - William Styron - Electra 210 - Robert Caro - Electra 210 (New York Times) - Allen Ginsberg - Electra - Truman Capote - Electra 110

Standard Typewriter Ribbon Notes for the US:

Here's a handful of places: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q1 I've really liked ribbons from either Baco or Fine Line, but you can also get them from your local repair shop, who'll appreciate the business more than Amazon will, and it'll help keep them around for when you may need a full overhaul.

You'll want the Universal spools of 2" in diameter with 1/2" wide ribbon (in Nylon, Silk, or Cotton), but honestly, if you've got original metal spools on your machine, those usually work best, so spool your new ribbon from the cheap plastic spools onto your originals.

Reply to u/PatriotMike1 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nya3bb/looking_for_ribbon_for_this_typewriter/

Nebula<br /> accessed on 2025-10-04T09:27:37

Nebula is smart, thoughtful videos, podcasts, and classes from your favorite creators.

Why bother with dozens of big standards in your office when you can have a portable or two that you can move and which are always in demand?

100% The Practical Magazine of Efficient Management, November 1916, Volume 7, No. 45, p49. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Management/hqj2SD6khL4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=corona&pg=RA4-PA49&printsec=frontcover

"Use Work-Organizers" advertisement, Bookseller & Stationer and Office Equipment Journal, Toronto, October 1920, Vol XXXVI, No. 10, p70.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bookseller_Stationer_and_Office_Equipmen/toZQAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dictaform%20meilicke&pg=RA9-PA70&printsec=frontcover

Photo of a work organizer for indexing/filing on both a desktop as well as within the desk drawer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PKMS/comments/1nst6fc/found_a_pkms_method_from_1916_that_im_shocked_i/

Office Appliances, August 1916 p115.

reply to u/Ag_2402 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nwl0jb/brother_charger_11/

Remove the ribbon and compare what's happening bilaterally. Use the mirror symmetry of the two sides and the ribbon reverse functionality to puzzle out what's wrong. Is something stuck? Broken? Bent? Missing? Comparing the broken side to the working side should help to solve the puzzle.

Look closely at the mechanics of what's going on. Are the gears turning at all? Is there a pawl that holds the forward motion properly? Does something need to be bent back into place? Is there a missing spring perhaps?

Beyond this doing searches for ribbon advancement on YouTube (especially Phoenix Typewriter's channel) may unearth some illustrative help.

Some of the advice here may be helpful: https://typewriterdatabase.com/RD-Typewriter-Tips.index.manual

reply to u/peachaphrodite at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nwu77s/sears_scholar_specific_letters_are_faint/

Issue with light imprints on a, w, q, etc.

Are you a touch typist or a two finger hunt-and-peck typist?

Solely based on the letters, I'll guess there's nothing wrong with the machine and that you're a newer touch typist whose two weakest fingers on your non-dominant hand just need some exercise to get a better imprint. I'd guess the same happens to your z and x as well, but you use them less. Practice typing about your "qwaze axes and saws" a few times a day for a week to improve your finger strength and technique.

If you're a hunt-and-peck person, then your typebars may need some gentle forming/fine adjustment using some specialist tools to give better imprints. Those letters on the ends of the segment more often go out of alignment than others. If this is the case, try: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html

Several people here recommend the Dixon DX005 (plastic) as a good mid-price starter whistle in the $50 range.

https://reddit.com/r/tinwhistle/comments/1nsape6/thin_whistle_for_learning/

https://www.reddit.com/r/tinwhistle/comments/179avhc/a_request_for_a_pinned_thread_of_all_whistle/

https://www.susato.com/

Five Books

mentioned by ES @ DABC<br /> Five books recommended by experts in particular areas.

Wilhelmshaven: The Emperor's beloved city destroyed in the war<br /> by [[NDR.de]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-30T15:02:51

I found a video about Wilhelmshaven in 1965 in the vintage section of a German broadcast service. The video is all German. It was made in 1965 and shows how the city developed through the decades. It is 17 minutes long, and the time from 6:30 to 8:30 is dedicated to Olympia Typewriters. You'll see a breathtaking amount of SG1s, workers correcting the letter alignment, workers taking measures on machines, and workers assembling machines in a huge workshop with a deafening typewriter rattle going on. <br /> via r/typewriters u/andrebartels1977 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nun0is/olympia_nerds/

Is he pro or anti-eugenics here? esp. with respect to his time?

de Vries, Hugo. Die Mutationstheorie. Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Entstehung von Arten im Pflanzenreich, Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1901-03.

compare with Galton:<br /> Galton, F. (1886). "Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 15: 246–263. doi:10.2307/2841583. JSTOR 2841583.

But about forty years ago the Dutchman de Vries discovered

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Vries

from where does he draw the idea "code-script"? Is it from the developing information theory of the time? Somewhere else?

There is definitely the idea of a code running in the sense of programming, which was likely not a common conceptualization at the time.

On p. 22 he uses the phrase "law-code" which is likely the closer meaning of code he's using and not the sense of genetic code as understood much later when DNA and the underlying protein coding sequences were unraveled.

Morse code may also be a tangential underlying meaning of his sense of "code" as something unknown but potentially revealable.

Jeremy.Olsen — 9/16/25, 8:21 AM Opening question for 9/16 - Regarding Schrödinger's description of thought on p.9 (Canto Classics edition):

"...what we call thought (1) is itself an orderly thing, and (2) can only be applied to material, i.e. to perceptions or experiences, which have a certain degree of orderliness."

My question is as follows: What exactly is the material of thought for Schrödinger, which he calls "perceptions or experiences"? What are examples of this material for him? What is excluded from this category?

the fusion of two cells, or of their nuclei, in reproduction.

essentially similar to fertilization

You have to love the analogy of General Montgomery to chromosomes here and the duplication of information.

Everyone knows the general direction they're moving, though the information in soldiers is different in form and function versus chromosomes which aren't conscious.

What happens when a soldier is captured and questioned though? How does that effect strategy and does it outweigh the effects of a commander dying and their next in command being able to quickly take over? or of the individual soldier presented by a difficulty, but able to make a decision because they know where the general might direct them for the outcome the general desired?

How might we apply ontogeny vs. phylogeny in the political sphere within @Lanier2013s framing Who Owns the Future or in the personbyte/firmbyte framing of @Hidalgo2015?

What a great conceptualization of considering organisms in time and space... something we don't do now as well as we ought to almost 80+ years later

One might presume as a physicist he's taking advantage of Einstein's conceptualization of spacetime, but here within biology.

While an apology to professionals, it also stands as an apology to the reasonably well-educated and non specialist decades later as well.

Translation:

Being is eternal; for there are laws to conserve the treasures of life on which the Universe draws for beauty.

This reminds me of the equivalence relational quote by Eddington

square root of n law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Langevin

Is he getting at the idea of consciousness? An organism must have a "large enough" machinery to be considered conscious at some level? How many physical moving parts and what links between them?

an attempt is better than nothing at all

"If at first you don't suck seed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Curly of the Three Stooges while eating a peach

Introduction to Metric Spaces <br /> by [[Paige Bright]] via | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare<br /> accessed on 2025-09-27T16:42:53

Adler J3 Typewriter - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-27T15:42:43

The rubber gromets/bushings of the Adler J3 are often an issue with their cases when they've aged.

Joe also compares this with the Olympia SM3 and an Optima Super typewriter (poorly designed)

John Lewis is closing his typewriter shop in Arizona soon.

Nakajima Daisywheel Typewriter Part 2 - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-27T15:15:18

The Nakamima WPT-150 is manufactured by Mitsunami Asia(S)Pte Ltd. in Indonesia and is sold in other countries as the model AX-150, which may help in finding supplies, print wheels, etc. for it.

nadist.com has repair manuals and parts lists as well as specifications

They sell six different models of which the WPT-150 is the least expensive.

Joe is a little more cognizant of the typing delay time of the Brother and it's seemingly non-existent for the Nakajima.

JVC tested the words per minute speed for the Nakajima using polar opposite characters on the daisy wheel.

Securing Your Typewriter Case - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-27T15:06:35

ebooks versus physical books

this sort of remixing of information was NOT new with this group

what is really going on here?

are we seeing patterns? who/what are the big influencers?

Alternately, where is the value in a slip box?

what general patterns do siren servers follow? are they all the same within some set of metrics?