Wednesday 16 October 2002

Heh. Percussive maintenance. Gotta remember that one. The Book Club that Has Met for 58 Years After her half-hour presentation, Friedman handed out song lyrics. She had typed them on her old Smith Corona electric typewriter, which died mid-task. She had attempted what she calls 'percussion maintenance' -- hitting or kicking a machine on the fritz -- but that wasn't effective this time. No matter. The copies were legible enough. The song lyrics included 'They Can't Take That Away from Me' by George Gershwin and 'The Ladies Who Lunch' by Stephen Sondheim. She asked members to read aloud the songs.[StarTribune.com, via The Obscure Store & Reading Room] [by way of The Shifted Librarian] 7:34:58 PM    comment []

The problem with this kind of keyboard is that the tactile and audial elements of the interface matter. It’s the reason I lug around a large keyboard when I am not flying to a client site when my laptop has a perfectly serviceable keyboard on it. If I don’t hear the clatter of the keys and feel them under my fingertips, my productivity goes down. I have to hear and feel the keys underneath my fingers to keep the rhythm of the writing and to keep my fingers in place and ready. 7:30:49 PM    comment []

Hey! The plush-Cthulhu-making Toy Vault is the same company that made my Monty Python Rabbit with the Sharp Nasty Teeth! Farscape figurines! Astro City figurines, with both the original and new Confessor! 5:30:02 PM    comment []

categories: Hostage to Crap

What was I saying earlier? Oh, right, where does one get a plush Cthulhu? Here’s the answer(s), straight from the ravening, gibbering mouth of the storyteller himself! 5:19:28 PM    comment []