Navigating my way through the alluring rabbit hole of wristwatches ..read more

In this post I look forward to lifting off from Manila for the long haul back to Calgary ..read more

Here is a much overdue post covering life changes over the last two years ..read more

AN ITALIAN STORY So this past week I made a seemingly rare typewriter purchase, an Italian built Carlton which is a Hermes under a different name, the Baby to be exact from somewhere between 1962 & 1968. There is little information on the internet regarding this particular brand and the serial numbers are not catalogued anywhere to pinpoint the exact year of manufacture but based on what I have seen posted on the database for other brands from the same factories which I guess may share the same serial numbers my thought is that mine falls right into the mid-60s with S/N94505. Considering ..read more

I have the time to type out a post this morning but not enough to digitally transcribe it so I apologize or that, especially considering that I did so using an elite faced machine so again I apologize if you need squinting to read it ..read more

Well according to the calendar spring is actually only 9 days away but I beg to differ and I have the video to back it up. My work day began just like any other seasonally speaking, I started out my mail deliveries at 10:30am wearing a light windbreaker but it wasn’t too long after that when I eventually shed down to the short sleeve shit that I had underneath…before you finish painting that mental picture, I was also fully clothed from the waist down. I believe the temperature topped out around 10 degrees celcius, coupled with the little to no wind of significance it was no wonder that my b ..read more

So this morning I rush out of the house only to get to work ONE HOUR EARLY! I have to kill time in the lunchroom and we’ll I never brought a typewriter with me. So since I am unable to compose a true typecast, I will instead share a recently posted YouTube video I created in which I recorded myself typing in slow motion. I discovered two interesting phenomenons, first was the unique action of each individual typewriter and the other was how inefficient my typing was on early takes (which I did not include in the video) so I was able to refine my technique. I hope you enjoy this brief productio ..read more

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