So… I’m back in Brisbane. I’ve been back a few days, and while this isn’t a bad thing I’m feeling a little sad about it. Quite sad. But not too sad. There seems to have been a steady flow of little surprises of late. The Typewriters. Let’s get down to business. Firstly, I managed to…
Steve and I woke up early again as we were eager to get into Sydney and through the traffic before it became difficult to drive on it’s consistently grid-locked roads. It was a cold morning in Scone, and my car was frosted from cold condensation that had dropped overnight as it hit the nearly 30…
My alarm went off at 3:30 am, and I immediately sprang to my feet (I’m a morning person, clearly). By 4:20 I was on the road to Steve Snow’s place, and by 5am I had his company with me while I drove Ruby the Exxy. It was a cold easter Saturday morning, and we would…
Ohhhh…. glowing and black. Must be awesome. What you see above is an interesting little device that is referred to as a ‘Robotic printer’. I spotted this Kickstater item over HERE and I found myself very curious. Check out the video on the site, and prepare to be amazed. Yeah, to be honest…
Words can’t express how much I feel frustrated about packing this house. But a string of letters can! FFFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKKKKK! Anyway.. Now I’ve got that out, I can talk about my current attempts at packing typewriters. While the baxter boxes from work weren’t large enough, I did find that I can use boxes used to transport…
In the last year or so many of the typosphere have noted that there’s been a dramatic increase in the price of typewriters sites like eBay and Etsy. While the market for these machines is growing and typewriters are no longer seen as valueless antiques sitting in the garage, there’s naturally been a steady increase…
It has been a while since I’ve addressed the question of 3D printing typewriter components. As I’ve so far been the only person to really attempt to tackle it, whenever the topic seems to arise in forums naturally I’ll end up getting an email or a message on the subject. So I think it is…
There are a lot of amateur writers on the typosphere, and I include myself in that list. I think one of the things that most of us have in common is the unrelenting urge to tell a story. We have narrative in our veins that doesn’t just keep us alive, but makes our hearts beat…
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