Photo | Chris Aldrich

Office setting with a green metal table in the foreground with a brown Royal HH typewriter on it. In the background are a card catalog filing cabinet and a four drawer filing cabinet whose paint matches the table. There's also a barrister bookcase full of books.

Today’s office. We’ve got a newly finished Shaw-Walker filing cabinet and a 1955 Royal HH standard typewriter.

Forget gasoline. Dismiss lighter fluid. Let slip the idea of lacquer thinner.

When I clean my type slugs, I only use bourbon.

Two Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriters sitting on top of a library card catalog at angles to each other. One on the left is black with grey trim while the other is gray with chrome trim.

Henry Dreyfuss Royal Quiet De Luxe Typewriter showdown. Which do you like better, the black and gray 1948 or the grey and chrome 1949?

Two packages of index card guides sitting on a library card catalog next to a gray Royal typewriter. The manilla package has 4x6" guides and the 5x8" guides are in blue pressboard.

Oxford seems to have quit manufacturing the 1/5 cut tabbed 4 x 6 inch index card guides, but yesterday I scored a bundle of 100 along with some 5 x 8 inch A-Z guides. The big win here was that the lot came for a total of $3.50!

Typewriter Backing Sheets for Index Cards

If you’re doing a lot of typing on index cards for your zettelkasten, recipes, or other uses, this may be a useful typewriter hack:

Shadow of a colander held up in the sunshine at the peak of the eclipse. The multi-pinhole camera shows a flower pattern of sun circles with a small bite taken out of each of them by the occlusion of the light by the moon all focused onto a concrete background.

I saw hundreds of images of the eclipse today, but none remotely similar to mine. While thinking back on how I imaged the eclipse with my “pinhole colander camera”, I realize that so much of my life is informed not only by science, but the science of cooking.

Typewritten index card that reads: "Having my morning cup of coffee while attending this month's Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup was a singular spot of joy on a rainy and otherwise dreadful day. It was heartwarming to see so many different tools and methods at play among such a small group of kind people. I can't wait to see everyone's smiling faces and hear their advice and experience at next month's third Saturday meetup."

Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup January 2024. 🖊️🗃️📓☕