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Replied to Ames Segment Pick by Anthony HereldAnthony Hereld (noctisadversaria.com)
I ordered a segment pick from Bremerton Typewriter Company several weeks ago. The segment is the arched piece near the center of a typewriter where every typebar passes through on its way to the platen. Decades of ink and paper dust can pack into the grooves there. That’s why an old machine can fe...
Anthony,

I’m glad you finally managed to get your own segment pick from Paul at Bremerton Typewriter. They’re really quite lovely and clever. I will say that oddly, since I bought it, none of the typewriters I’ve gotten since are terribly gummed up as badly as a stretch of them I had gotten before and which were the reason I bought the pick in the first place! The luck of the repairman I suppose…

I must also admit that you seem to be another new member of the typosphere I’ve noticed who has Webmentions on your site! Kudos on that.

Best regards,

Chris
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cc: Tom Fasano, Ted Munk

 

Replied to So What’s all this Indieweb and Webmentions stuff? by Ted Munk (typecast.munk.org)

Typewritten message that reads: "AND INTERACTS WITH IT'S ENVIRONMENT* - BUT, it quickly adds up in complexity and file size. Well, alright! Let's us try out this Indieweb and Webmentions thing that's been going around. Hello, Chris & Tom - I'm not sure why your webmentions aren't showing up here, but I did see Tom's on Chris's blog. We'll try this post and see if it works for a specific post..."

Thanks for your reply Ted. I’m putting some text here in the case that your site filters out img tags the way most WordPress comment sections do. Clicking through to my site will provide the photo of the typed response if this is the case. Tom has a snippet of code which may help this if you need it. Once you’ve got some kinks worked out, it’s not half bad… It might require even more intention that sitting down at a typewriter though?!

A typed index card sitting in the keys of a light green Hermes 3000 typewriter. It reads: Ted, Congratulations, your message came through properly. It did get stuck in my moderation queue, though I think I've fixed that for the future. It also appears that your site doesn't like hotlinking photos from external sites, so I had to tweak that as well. Tom, Now for the fun part: Let's test to see if threaded messages via the comments section work properly as well. I've done it in the past with success, so here's hoping... .I suspect that Ted's site may require some tweaking to show photos in comments the way yyou and I have modified things for ours. Here's to the next wave of typewriter technology! Best, Chris

We were allowed back into our neighborhood over the weekend and were excited to find our poor wind battered and smoke damaged house still standing.

Naturally I brought back a daily typewriter, but it was eerie to see what I’d last typed on it two weeks ago just before we had to evacuate.

A Remington Standard typewriter sitting in the front seat of a car.

Typed index card that reads: 2025-01-07 Crazy winds kicked up this morning around 5:30AM and woke up both Sonia and I early. I went out briefly around 6:00 A to batten down the hatches and move the car out from under the tree. Evie was already up and working on her math homework. I'm really proud of her for this as well as going to bed at a reasonable time last night. The trip to school wasn't too bad this morning, though I did have to navigate around a Christmas thee that had blown into the middle of the street. Winds are supposed to be bad all day long. I'm sort of worried about going to class tonight at UCLA, but I suspect that winds there probably aren't as bad based on what Sonia has said about her drive into the office earlier