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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I didn’t expect there to be secret documents in the area of keyboard research.pic.twitter.com/h4tKfxKap5
All these is what Artificial Intelligence thinks are keyboards. (The last one is both hilarious and inspired.)pic.twitter.com/I1qmzaA5Gy
These kinds of small moments of preservation make me really happy. Here is a booklet from late 19th century you can all read with me: https://archive.org/details/RemingtonTypewriterFurniture …pic.twitter.com/jxmOoK7pvl
Very happy with how the latest book newsletter issue turned out, even though I accidentally almost destroyed my camera while filming me typing on the one keyboard in my apartment that’s not meant for typing. Lucky 13!https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/the-italian-senate-survival-manual-151502 …
Spot an interloper in my new update to the “book skyline.”pic.twitter.com/YqXZRBmYB1
I got this on eBay for very little. I think it hides a really cool 1990s keyboard, but I’m only going to open it up when I’m finished with the third draft of the book. Also, I might do an unboxing video. Let me know if you’d watch such a thing?pic.twitter.com/p4PSAYu6Bx
A very nice Twitter moment where a bunch of people came together to solve a little keyboard mystery:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1114641852022415360 …
Had it on the docket today to rewrite a chapter a certain way, only to discover *I have already done that at some point.* 0_O Started a five-day effort this morning to finish the third draft. Wish me luck!
One of the many fun moments in this process: chatting with Hartmut Esslinger about why computers became beige/grey, how many shades of beige/grey are there (more than I expected), and what role did keyboards play in all this.
Just a romantic photo of a sun setting on new research. (It’s one of my favourite parts: finding and reading through the most obscure books on the subject.)pic.twitter.com/M9gHpdVOof
First I discover a keyboard on a cable car, and today my spying resulted in discovering a keyboard in the cable car *barn* as well. (A CNC machine, I think?)pic.twitter.com/1FuUDBwAm2
So close! Just one more tricky chapter to rewrite, plus a handful of to-do items and TKs to cover.pic.twitter.com/dcSTqYmk4C
FINISHED THE THIRD DRAFT!!!!!!!!! Didn’t cut as much as I wanted, plus there are probably at least two more drafts to do… but I don’t want to think about this now. The book is getting better and better, and for some time at least I can focus on visuals, instead of writing. :·)
Buy my book (eventually) to understand this cryptic conversation!https://twitter.com/jeffkisseloff/status/1118570953410269184 …
A shot of a key being photographed from something close to the perspective of a key is a bit frightening! (The box on the left is propping up an old iPhone serving as a light source.)pic.twitter.com/SS0F0aDpAd
My book is now leading me to some heavy interlibrary drama and intrigue!pic.twitter.com/daMeGMwfGg
That feeling when you persevere, and finally find the photo you want – and then realize it was hard to find because of a *typo*.pic.twitter.com/Moly3yDmA1
Number of tabs opened in Chrome right now: 688. Most are related to the book and the visual research. I should probably start processing/closing some down? 0_Opic.twitter.com/p9u1DzVGYT
Just another day in keyboard research land!
(Art direction and photo by @neobarnabas.)pic.twitter.com/WOwspoQuWQ
My friend @GlennF pointed out August Dvorak’s grave (in Seattle) kind of looks like a split keyboard. 0_Opic.twitter.com/B28gjtStci – at Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Slowly, but surely: working on the visual side of the book.pic.twitter.com/cw20XlhEDh
I was scanning a few photos today from a 1920s sales newsletter for Royal Typewriter Company for my book, and – since it took some effort to actually get it – I thought it would be nice to preserve *all* of it.pic.twitter.com/5TLY3OUHPV
Scanning the oversized volumes on the library’s small scanners seemed like days of work. Instead, I set up a tripod with my iPhone in the library, grabbed my little Bluetooth remote.pic.twitter.com/in9KmXeNoZ
Only a little over an hour later, I had all 376 pages photographed. I even took photos of white pieces of paper to see where the shadows were, and used it as a mask to fix uneven lights in the library.pic.twitter.com/MJ1LDTwCWl
And now five years of Royal Standard – 50,000+ words – are on Internet Archive for anyone to read: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Royal+Typewriter+Company%2C+Inc.%22 … (Sure, this is not the best quality possible, but much better than nothing – particularly since I also OCR’ed all the text, making it searchable.)
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