Introduction I bought this machine right after the start of the Bay Area “shelter-in-place” order related to the COVID-19 pandemic back in April 2020. Since we were all actually sheltering at the ...

When switching to my new blog setup, which is based on Jekyll and the Chirpy theme, I wondered why things jittered around when paging down a long post with images. Similarly, using the “End” key to...

From Chick Corea’s web site: It is with great sadness that we announce that on February 9th, Chick Corea passed away at the age of 79, from a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very ...

Background I recently picked up an IBM Memory Typewriter that otherwise would have been scrapped. 1 Many thanks go to the kind soul who tipped the Golfballtypewritershop group and allowed me to pi...

One Underwood and two Royals: in April 2017, I was clearly missing another big typewriter brand! So when I saw a Craigslist ad for a Remington 12 which looked in beautiful condition, I jumped on it...

After two typewriters in good condition obtained in April 2017, I was ready for something else for machine number 3. I found on eBay a 1913 Royal 5 1 and I decided to get it. Shipping was about the...

After the Underwood 6 from 1936, there was an good chance I would look into getting another typewriter. So this one came up on eBay, and I noticed that it didn’t sell and that the seller, while not...

In April 2017 I bought my first typewriter: a classic Underwood 6 from 1936. It was actually advertised as an Underwood 5, which would have been even more classic, but I liked the machine and went ...

Tessel 2 and its relay module What is Tessel 2? Tessel 2 is a Wi-Fi-enabled development board programmable in JavaScript with Node.js. The first units shipped this month. There is a lot th...

Introduction Not long ago I stumbled upon the signature of the flatten method on Option: def flatten[B](implicit ev: A <:< Option[B]): Option[B] I don’t know about you, but I knew about i...