The cover – as proposed on Richard’s blog. Is it a book about typewriters? Or just writing. Yeah, I admit it. I’m a typewriter collector. I intended to stop at 3, but then I found myself rescuing a glass key Royal portable from key choppers and it all went up-hill from there. The more blogs…
Foolishly I believed I had a place of my own. A place that I could write and bash at a typewriter and feel productive and alive. A place of warmth, love and enjoyment while I explore the inner worlds of my imagination without persecution or fear of death. Oh my friends, how wrong was I.…
My fingers just weren’t hitting the right keys today. Never mind, if I wanted my typing to be perfect, I’d have used a word-processor. Anyway, I have decided to file my typing and travelling adventures under the new header seen above – titled ‘Filthy Wheels’, along side Filthy Labs for my repair experiments. Hope you…
Sadly, the materials I set aside to undertake Michael Clemens typing challenge were accidentally disposed of in a freak cleaning accident. So, instead I decided to strap my typewriter to the motorbike, and head out on to the ‘wide open road‘ – a cafe in Brunswick. And let’s face it. If there was every a…
The Ute. Utes are a very common vehicle in Australia. They were invented here to service the needs of our farmers. However they have become synonymous with any male (and often females) wishing to paint themselves as a “hard-working Aussie’. As such they have become popular with tradesmen and lazy dickheads.…
I looked closely at my work ID on Tuesday, and noticed that it expires in a bit over a week. The ID is current for 5 years, and as this was my first ID issued by the hospital I work at, it meant that I was coming up to my 5th year anniversary. The ID…
It had been only three or so months since I’d driven the road between Canberra and Melbourne, but the landscape looked so different. While previously the hills were an eye-piercing yellow, they were now a lush and rolling green. The rains had come and life had exploded which also had the unfortunate effect of increasing…
Rob in front of the ‘red zone’ …. Sometime in the 1980’s. The phone was hung up with a slam rather than a gentle hanging up. It was a 70’s era wall-phone and the give in the plastic immediately bounced the handset back out of the cradle. “Keating is a f***ing prat. He’s more…
It seems Microsoft have come up with something cool to do with a keyboard. This… cool thing.. is a merging of computer system controller and…. a keyboard. So someone down here in the Australian media has then seen it and which somehow led to them writing an article about alternative keyboards. The device itself is…
The Filthy Platen 