Typed Trivia

Step 1: Choose your preferred edition of Trivial Pursuit™ (Genus II).

Step 2: Choose your preferred typewriter (Ezra Pound-Katie, Kevin Arnold-Whitney).

Step 3: Beginning with player on the left, draw card from front of deck, ask each of the 6 questions.

Step 4: All player type their answers as questions are read (N.B. points may be deducted for poor alignment &/or irregular margins).

Step 5: After 10 cards have been asked, pass answers to player on your right.

Step 6: Read answers aloud, allot 1 point for each correct answer.

Step 7: Lose to Whitney.

Round 1 - Head 2 Head Trivia (W-25, K-19)

Round 2 - Trivia 2.0: Back in the Habit (W-23, K-16)

Final Score: W-2, K-0

Your Typewriter Has Arrived

This package does not contain Doll House Furniture. It contains a typewriter. He's Italian. And orange. And you can tell by his racing stripe that he's meant to go fast. 

Meet Umberto Scrittore, complete with Power Space, Error Control, and a Page Gage [Sic]. No, I don't know what makes the right side of the space bar better for controlling errors and I don't care. 

Manual Stimulation

Diddle me this—why does everything feel better when you do it by hand? Spurred on by the arrival of some new stermps, Katie & I peddled my bikes over to the University Bookstore to peruse their paper & paper-related products. Their index card section is legitimately exciting. Plus, you know how I feel about recycling. All I could think about on the ride home was how that rough brown paper was going to feel in one of my 'writers. And what I was going to put in my slightly over-sized envelope.

Here's a preview of things you should be expecting in the mail:

Dear Jeremy,

Mustard, She Wrote.

This will be the last of my—several—mustard posts. I promise. Maybe.

You've probably already heard about the M.M.T. and its mustarganda. But have you seen the sign-in sheet‽ Names, realations, and goals. Goals! Everyone needs goals.

The answers:

1. No

2. Yes!

3. Yes.

9. Absolutely not.

11. Absolutely.

1¢. Concentrate and ask again.

16. Outlook good.

17. Try again later.

13. Yes.

20. Cannot predict now.

15. Outlook not good.

      16. Very doubtful./Signs point to yes.

The Electronic Postal System

One of the upshots of joining a Typing Gang is that you get things like this in the mail on a regular basis. It helps that I own a functional scanner, but there's something really satisfying about typewritten mail.

It's also really nice when the stamp isn't postmarked. Get ready Joseph Story, you're about to get recycled.

Other benefits of TypeTUB:

—watching people under 30 realize there is no delete key.

—watching people over 50 relive their own personal typewriting hell.

Reappearing Ink

I was changing Remington's ribbon this morning and was getting really up & personal with his paten. That's when I noticed this:

The next line is less legible, but says "AND THIS TOO". 


                   Who is Joe, 
   
                         and what was he writing‽

One For Each Hand

Let's start by acknowledging what I did not buy: The Olivetti Valentine. If you follow me on Google Reader you already know about how that typewriter has been haunting my online dreams. And if you don't, it's time you got aboard the Reader wagon. Time and technology wait for no man. Neither does the internet/Google. [Evan, if you're reading this, I don't mean you. I'm cutting you out of my digital lifestyle.]

That being said, I am in ownership of a second 'writer. Guy Vandertype will always hold a special place in my heart, but my new Remington Rand has a TAB key! And his action really feels right. Not to mention his Ws —classy even in lowercase. Some notable typeface distinctions:

And a (Japanese) Poem:

Room For One More...

Our newest gang's membership roster is almost complete. It had to be manually mailed out to Eastern Iowa so that its final lines could be struck by Joanna's Paige. She's French, so I'm expecting some stylish typeface out of her. I bet she's got some great acutes on her. And really, you can't have too many hats, even letterhats. 2013 will be here before you know it.  

TypeTUB's Highlights:

Katie's 'J'

Jeremy's numerals

Whitney's 'Q'

For Your Next Tour of The Capitols:

In case you're planning to see them via air, a quick reference map of state capital airport codes. The South Central has a couple of gems with JEF, LIT, and MGM; what I'm more surprised by is Bradley Internationale's lone status in the Nutmeg State as the one capital airport with non-city based call letters.

Except for Topeka [FOE], which doesn't exist on my map.

A Play, In 1 Act

Dramatis Personæ: Anna, Justin

Doing it in pen is nothing compared to doing it in type.

Skill learned: use of the ½-space functionality. It's the only way to get yourself into all those little boxes that aren't quite 2 spaces apart.

Sweater; Roof; Typewriter

I got a typewriter in the mail today. It's a sleek little guy, and he came complete with a red & black ribbon, a #1 key(!), and an Operating Instruction pamphlet. This proved surprisingly useful early on in our relationship when it detailed how to set my line-spacing. The only thing he seems to be missing is a Tab key, which I'm not sure how my future typewriting experiences will be affected by yet.

Actually, this seemed like the perfect time to be a little affected. So I put on a sweater, a tie, and a pair of saddle shoes. And then got to typing.

I really want to pay $125 for this.

Inks on the Graphs

QuickDraw

Instructions:

1. Name something, anything.

2. Everybody draw it, quickly.

3. Judge it.

           Column 1: Dinosaur                                                  Column 2: The Pump & Call

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