Typewritten index card sitting in the carriage of an Olympia that reads: I stayed up half the night watching election returns and swapping out all the ribbon in my typewriter collection to blue ink. It only seems fitting for the change I hope to see in the coming months.   Thank goodness I had 660 yards on hand!  If you're in the Los Angeles area and want to follow suit, let me know.

I stayed up half the night watching election returns and swapping out all the ribbon in my typewriter collection to blue ink. It only seems fitting for the change I hope to see in the coming months.  

Thank goodness I had 660 yards on hand!  If you’re in the Los Angeles area and want to follow suit, let me know.

An opened corrugated cardboard package with a large almost 12 inch diameter reel of typewriter ribbon wrapped in a plastic bag. The reel sits next to two tiny 2 inch diameter plastic spools and a pair of scissors for scale. Behind the reel of ribbon is a green crinkle painted 1958 Olympia SM3 with green keys. The reel appears that it is even larger in base surface area than the typewriter is.

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Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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  1. I showed this post to my Dad this morning while we were drinking coffee (from a brand new percolator pot). He laughed, then said, “yeah but does he have a Selectric 251?” We’ve been watching Fringe in the evenings lately.

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