Introduction In July 2021 I shipped 7 large boxes containing typewriters from Switzerland to the US. In total the boxes contained 15 typewriters: 12 portables in their cases 3 “antique” stan...

The problem Over the last few months our Yamaha Clavinova CLP-280, which we bought around 2007, had developed issues: some keys, starting with A3, but then also G3, and then a couple of other keys...

Introduction I previously wrote about my IBM Memory Typewriter and the first installment about its cleaning and restoration. In this post, I describe the continuation of the cleaning of the machin...

Introduction I previously wrote about my IBM Memory Typewriter. In this post, I describe the initial troubleshooting and cleaning of the machine. I am also publishing the second installment at the...

I recently listened to the entire 4-hour interview of Balaji Srinivasan by Sam Harris. I was mainly struck by how poorly someone with a resume as impressive as Balaji’s (Stanford, A16z, et...

Introduction I bought this 1961 Hermes Baby with serial 5875948 in Switzerland in February 2019. It became number 58 in my collection. This was my first “Baby”, and it was technically my fifth Her...

Introduction I’ve had a 10-core iMac Pro for over 3 years now. It’s a superb machine with a beautiful 27” 5K display. Its thermal design is excellent and even when the fans run, they tend to be pr...

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 ...

See also the following related posts: Restoring an IBM Memory Typewriter - Part 1 Restoring an IBM Memory Typewriter - Part 2 Restoring an IBM Electronic Selectric Composer - Part 1 The I...

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...

My goal for the month of September was making progress reading Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking. I am now at page 60, so I consider that this was a success. It does help to have small, ...

My goal for the month of July was: continue on the synthesis and try to have a closure on it, spending about 2 more hours I didn’t have any goals for August. I only managed to spend another h...

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Daniel Miessler asked himself which iPhone 6 to get and I did the same. Here are my thoughts. First, whether considering the 6 or 6 Plus, there is definitely a d...