Random thinking during an Australian dusk.
I strongly suggest you click these to enlarge them. Well, I did mean ‘serviced’ Hermes 3000, but I had the book ‘Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance’ in mind while I was writing this.
Typecasting from Paradise City. The other one.
You may want to click these to enlarge them. Just a suggestion, nothing meant by it. Oh, and there’s probably a few errors. Proof reading is for wimps. Or people with actual writing careers. *Correction ‘still waking up in the darkness, to asleep to have a conversation. But you probably got that anyway.…
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“I’m going to put a knife in your chest as you sleep, and burn your house down around you with your family still inside” This wasn’t the first death threat I had ever received, but was the first I copped on facebook. Since that time I’ve received hundreds of threats to my life, wellbeing and…
A right royal pain….
Moments after I wrote this, I pushed on a particularly soft piece of metal on the FP, and broke it. DOH! Another thing to fix now….
Dunking and drying. Did it work?
So I got this Hermes 3000 for $9.50 right? Well, it seemed a little dirty, but it appeared for the most part clean. And maybe filled with a few dead Silverfish and dust-bunnies. So I thought – as a couple of the keys seem a bit sticky, let’s give it a dunk. It’s pretty clean,…
Typograph?
Typograph. 2012. This was a happy accident (to me) while I worked on some repairs to a…
So – let’s take a look at another Hermes 3000 70’s.
Okay… So… following the Hermes 3000 that I was so excited about a couple of weeks ago, I purchased another 70’s era Hermes 3000 for a whopping – bank breaking $9.50. Which officially makes it 50 cents cheaper than my previous cheapest typewriter acquisition from ebay. Australian 50c coin – featuring our coat of arms. …
The Filthy Platen 