Restoration Project: 1930-31 Royal Typewriter - Model 10

April 10, 2024

I found this typewriter at a yard sale in San Jose in 1994.  I believe the price tag was $40 and George was going to work on a guy's mountain bike to pay for it.  I've had it since, and haven't done anything with it, and something inspired me to start a restoration on it.  Why not?

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Disabling the Caps Lock Key: An update

In early January, I wrote about my annoyance of the existence of the Caps Lock key on our modern keyboards.  When are they used?  How often do you find yourself yelling after accidently hitting it?  I said I would do a follow up, and here it is.  Two words:  Power toys.

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Consider...

Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held resposible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they, themselves are doing today?

-Thomas Sowell

Did you know...

SOS does not stand for Save Our Ship, or anything at all.  It is simply the easiest code to transmit via Morse code.

A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.

The first food eaten in space by a US astronaut was applesauce.

Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S