You want pr0n, I'll give ya pr0n.
<img src="http://i63.tinypic.com/2ns41ah.jpg">An artist named Jeremy Mayer does these, and he's amazing. Everything you see there, and in many other sculptures, is done with typewriter parts.
This isn't a 'puter keyboard, it's from an old Linotype machine. It's slightly different from the Intertype machines I used in my brief career in printing.
Not that I recall, but I may have old-timer's. Good to see they have an English [website.]
I was in Mainz on bidness years ago and wandered in on a Saturday. Everything was in German and much of it beyond my modest skills, but I comprehended an announcement that there would be a demonstration in the workshop and followed everybody there. They had a model of Gutenberg's original press and workshop, and the guy set up the type in a frame, inked it with one color for the body text and another for the large initial capital (all in Fraktur, naturlich), lay a large sheet of paper over it and cranked the press down on its wooden threads. When he lifted off the finished sheet and held it up so we could see it, it was beautiful.
<img src="http://www.alterlittera.com/myfonts.com/ALOTGutenbergB-Poster3.png">
"Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one"
I used a linotype a little and memorized the California job case. Ran a Heidelberg 'windmill', a hand-fed snapper, as well as a Kluge and some other dangerous pieces of shit. Got into camerawork, stripping (IMAGE ASSEMBLY!!!), then spent the majority of my years in typesetting before getting into desktop support, and then lengthy unemployment.
Most of my time on the production floor was in machine maintenance. We actually used gasoline to clean stuff with, as was prescribed in the manuals. I got into proof work just before I quit and moved to the mountains. I only know one person who is still in the business, and he can't wait to retire.
I know enough to understand about half of what you said. Our Venn Diagrams overlap!
Part of my duties included smelting type back down to ingots to daisy-chain back on the machines. Really mindless work, the hardest part of which was knowing when to insert a potato into the bottom of the cauldron in order to purge the slag.
I'm surprised how much of this crap I remember doing 45 years ago.
Now that's a crime. The IBM Selectric III was the very apex of typewriter design, just before they became obsolete. I wrote multiple unpublishable novels on one.
That's what I learned on, and I still have an Underwood portable stuffed in a shed. One of the problems with having acreage is having nearly unlimited space to store junk.
I took the scope down to the desert compound, because it's still warm enough down there after dark. I looked at the moon with it, which is about as difficult a target as it's likely good for. When Crab Nebula is visible, I'll try that…
If you can get the moon in, try stars and planets- Saturn is out. From there, try the Pleiades, the Orion Nebula(brightest nebula there is!). The Andromeda galaxy should be naked eye from your place, another good one to try. If you have _really_ dark skies, M33 in Triangulum has even lower surface brightness, but I've seen it naked eye from northern Vermont. The Crab is kind of dim, but your dark skies will help bring it out. Will be challenging in such a small scope, but for once, I hope you catch the Crab.
I've actually seen the Crab via naked eye out there. It's just a blur, but readily recognizable. I didn't know what I was seeing until I consulted the Sky Map app on my phone. I can only see it during the "cold" months, and way off to the northwestern horizon early evenings. Sadly, Vegas has encroached on the darkness. Most notably, the Luxor. Die, Luxor, die!
You've got a really fucking dark sky, my friend. Me so jelly. I could get the Crab (so to speak) back in NJ if I was in a good dark spot with a 6" scope, but not a 3" and never naked eye. Maybe I need to try naked eye next time I'm in the sierras.
Those sightings are from the Nevada joint. While the sky is really dark here too, there's no horizon. I'm at 4,000 ft, and some of the mountains are over 14,000 ft. I have a really good view directly overhead, though! I suppose I could venture farther afield than the back yard and see more.
keyboard pr0n
You want pr0n, I'll give ya pr0n.
<img src="http://i63.tinypic.com/2ns41ah.jpg">An artist named Jeremy Mayer does these, and he's amazing. Everything you see there, and in many other sculptures, is done with typewriter parts.
Needz moar coffee stains. And tears.
Anyone else use one of these? Just me?
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Linotype_machine_keyboard_at_the_Washington_Post_-_DSC05530.JPG/800px-Linotype_machine_keyboard_at_the_Washington_Post_-_DSC05530.JPG"</img>
Looks like you've got that computer sand-boxed!
Sandpaper was necessary to roughen up the roll.
This isn't a 'puter keyboard, it's from an old Linotype machine. It's slightly different from the Intertype machines I used in my brief career in printing.
Did we talk already about the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz? Many treasures of printing on display there.
Not that I recall, but I may have old-timer's. Good to see they have an English [website.]
I was in Mainz on bidness years ago and wandered in on a Saturday. Everything was in German and much of it beyond my modest skills, but I comprehended an announcement that there would be a demonstration in the workshop and followed everybody there. They had a model of Gutenberg's original press and workshop, and the guy set up the type in a frame, inked it with one color for the body text and another for the large initial capital (all in Fraktur, naturlich), lay a large sheet of paper over it and cranked the press down on its wooden threads. When he lifted off the finished sheet and held it up so we could see it, it was beautiful.
<img src="http://www.alterlittera.com/myfonts.com/ALOTGutenbergB-Poster3.png">
"Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one"
I used a linotype a little and memorized the California job case. Ran a Heidelberg 'windmill', a hand-fed snapper, as well as a Kluge and some other dangerous pieces of shit. Got into camerawork, stripping (IMAGE ASSEMBLY!!!), then spent the majority of my years in typesetting before getting into desktop support, and then lengthy unemployment.
Most of my time on the production floor was in machine maintenance. We actually used gasoline to clean stuff with, as was prescribed in the manuals. I got into proof work just before I quit and moved to the mountains. I only know one person who is still in the business, and he can't wait to retire.
I know enough to understand about half of what you said. Our Venn Diagrams overlap!
Still miss the sweet smell of molten lead?
Part of my duties included smelting type back down to ingots to daisy-chain back on the machines. Really mindless work, the hardest part of which was knowing when to insert a potato into the bottom of the cauldron in order to purge the slag.
I'm surprised how much of this crap I remember doing 45 years ago.
I continue to use the HP8660 to this day.
My father and grandfather each had one of these in their home offices. This is how "computing" was done:
<img src="https://img1.etsystatic.com/035/0/7922865/il_570xN.580593309_3sgu.jpg">
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Chinese-abacus.jpg" width="500">
I have one of these, minus the stylus:
<img src="https://cdn0.rubylane.com/shops/dunrovenantiques/1722.2L.jpg?38"</img>
<img src="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_tablet#/media/File:Table_with_was_and_stylus_Roman_times.jpg">
wax on, wax off
My mother typed her Ditto masters for English-class handouts on one of these.<img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3451/3727996858_c204b18060_z.jpg" />
they're not handouts, they're entitlements
Ha ha, excellent!
<img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c7/0b/dc/c70bdceb7944bd5ea51a5865afa404e2.jpg"/>
"Hunter confronts Hunted"?
Now that's a crime. The IBM Selectric III was the very apex of typewriter design, just before they became obsolete. I wrote multiple unpublishable novels on one.
That's what I learned on, and I still have an Underwood portable stuffed in a shed. One of the problems with having acreage is having nearly unlimited space to store junk.
Let's all be nice to Biff, so we don't end up stuffed in a shed some day.
BTW, play around with the telescope at all?
I took the scope down to the desert compound, because it's still warm enough down there after dark. I looked at the moon with it, which is about as difficult a target as it's likely good for. When Crab Nebula is visible, I'll try that…
If you can get the moon in, try stars and planets- Saturn is out. From there, try the Pleiades, the Orion Nebula(brightest nebula there is!). The Andromeda galaxy should be naked eye from your place, another good one to try. If you have _really_ dark skies, M33 in Triangulum has even lower surface brightness, but I've seen it naked eye from northern Vermont. The Crab is kind of dim, but your dark skies will help bring it out. Will be challenging in such a small scope, but for once, I hope you catch the Crab.
I've actually seen the Crab via naked eye out there. It's just a blur, but readily recognizable. I didn't know what I was seeing until I consulted the Sky Map app on my phone. I can only see it during the "cold" months, and way off to the northwestern horizon early evenings. Sadly, Vegas has encroached on the darkness. Most notably, the Luxor. Die, Luxor, die!
You've got a really fucking dark sky, my friend. Me so jelly. I could get the Crab (so to speak) back in NJ if I was in a good dark spot with a 6" scope, but not a 3" and never naked eye. Maybe I need to try naked eye next time I'm in the sierras.
Those sightings are from the Nevada joint. While the sky is really dark here too, there's no horizon. I'm at 4,000 ft, and some of the mountains are over 14,000 ft. I have a really good view directly overhead, though! I suppose I could venture farther afield than the back yard and see more.
We're number L! We're number L!
Finally, a use for red apples!
Nor Juan.