At the public library: “So you’re the guy who orders all those typewriter books.”
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1483.00 ELECTRONIC DESIGN V. 30, 1-12 Jan. 7-June 10, 1982 (May Career Extra, Index) Reel 1 of 3 University Microfilms International Duplicate Negativepic.twitter.com/rZHMSU4pp1
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(If you’re curious what I’m researching, it’s the early days of mechanical keyboards. If this looks interesting, DM me and I’ll send you ~200 of these.)pic.twitter.com/NYNKQG7xWf
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I learned today there’s a difference between microfiche and microfilm.pic.twitter.com/povzY0BUeE
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Took a 90-year-old thesis that spent last 60 years on a shelf somewhere in Cincinnati for a ferry ride in California – and it rewarded me with gorgeous vulgar fractions that used to be on every keyboard, but disappeared long ago.pic.twitter.com/RohTa4ZM2l
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We are now on a vintage Italian trolley for a final ride back to the library. PLOT TWIST: Even the trolley has a keyboard.pic.twitter.com/EopXDLICZ6
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Returned the thesis to be sent back to its home and likely never ever again leave its shelf, except PLOT TWIST I also scanned it so you can all read it now: https://archive.org/details/TheRemingtonRandConsolidation …pic.twitter.com/19YwlC3Z1m
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Walking past library stacks, on a lark I randomly picked up a volume of Time and then let it open wherever it wanted. Of course it was something related to keyboards.pic.twitter.com/jMStoIeYYi
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Uploading scanned papers to
@internetarchive while waiting to board my plane like a goddamn *pro.*pic.twitter.com/erdEhnCWo7
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…and I immediately spent whatever karma I gained by finding an accessible keyboard with a nice 16-segment display.pic.twitter.com/57md66Nbyx
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My interurban bus got pulled over by German police earlier today (routine Schengen Area passport control, it turned out) and I’m immediately like “oooh, what is that keyboard?”pic.twitter.com/wQnGtO5kLH
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Some great news on the book front, and momentum – after many months of feeling stuck. (Still a bit overwhelmed with the amount of work needing to be done, but I feel I understand what that will be, at least.)
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One interesting thing about collating a lot of information about a single subject over time is that you see fun patterns, e.g.pic.twitter.com/cZh4hEzXDk
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Here’s another one (and this is all just tweets that appeared in my timeline or were shared with me without searching):pic.twitter.com/jVmC4CP2wE
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(I have gotten some great comments on my book from a few people who read the current draft. Not just positive, of course. :·) Will credit them and give more of an update when the smoke clears!)
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That time of year where you have to split a book tower into two smaller book towers to prevent a collapse.pic.twitter.com/73ZNkhyMIP
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Oh, lord. Remember the fictional character of Jessie K. Board (which was my iPhone AI misidentifying many keyboard photos as an actual person)?https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1033975439734132736 …
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Now iPhone suggests sharing new keyboard photos with that person. Is this god telling me “you’ve gone too far with this keyboard stuff.”pic.twitter.com/Bn3QVhpZZu
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These are also photos iOS thinks are of keyboards. It’s actually pretty hilarious!pic.twitter.com/xrjrXRQG5G
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I suspected the day would come where in my research I’d stumble upon a thing Google knows nothing about.pic.twitter.com/oSNUNwKyWF
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Major surgery on a few troubled chapters. This is a bit scary; as much writing as rampant copying and pasting, and the feeling I won’t fully know how it all worked out until I re-read it with fresh eyes in a few weeks.pic.twitter.com/CRnB4lUl7I
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Just wrote the opening chapter from scratch again for the third time. I’m genuinely curious how many times it’s going to take, in the end.pic.twitter.com/IRT85kbjeB
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Dig deep enough and you will find a (pretty weird) keyboard even in an office espresso machine.pic.twitter.com/Wr3vS2MWOW
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Guess who I interviewed today! All the clues are in the photo. ^_^pic.twitter.com/jrrGsrTNtL
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Felt very accomplished with rewriting today. Combined two chapters into one chapter with half the words; it feels leaner *and* I embedded it more into the chronology *and* I centered it all around a cool new person.
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Ten most cursed folders in my keyboard research database.pic.twitter.com/T7sZRkjJrf
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