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How I typecast

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 L.T. Hanlon5 Comments

The photo shows the following typewritten text. Friday, May 10, 2019. Smith—Corona 5T Silent—Super. My typecast workflow. Someone asked me about the stepsrequired to create a typecast, so that’s what I’m going to explain here. By the way, none of this is original to me. I gleaned most of these from Joe Van Cleave, Richard Polt, and The Rt. Rev. Theodore Munk. OK, the steps. 1 — I first think about what I’m going to write about but I don't cogitate  too much because I want everything to be as spontaneous as possible. 2 — I choose which typewriter to use: Smith—Corona Silent—Super pica, Smith-Corona Silent—Super elite, Canon Typestar 5 electronic typewriter, or Hermes 3000 (1968 model) Techno Pica.	 3 — I photograph the typewritten page using my smartphone’s camera, then create a 1,000-pixel wide, 72 ppi version. 4 — I open the photo in an OCR app, convert the text and export to Microsoft Word. In Word, I clean up the results and then insert the words into the alt attribute of my post’s image. This allows visitors who are employing assistive technology to read the post too. This text also can be indexed by search engines. 5 — I then post the image and amended HTML. Once or twice I used a scanning app instead of a plain photo, but I like the raw look and feel  of a photo. And look and feel are essential to  a typecast, right? Note: Minor corrections added by hand.

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The song remains the same: It stinks

May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 L.T. HanlonLeave a comment

TImage is of the following typewritten text. Smith-Corona Silent-Super. 65-pound Southworth Linen by Neenah Paper Inc., Neenah, Wisconsin. Nightmare in Music. I had trouble falling asleep last night so I listened to recordings of thunderstorms and then country music — and off I went to Dreamland. The music played on as I slept … and then suddenly I awoke in horror to Mr. Bojangles, my second-least favorite song. My No. 1 least-favorite song is The Little Drummer Boy. I think that what happened is that Spotify played the thunderstorm tracks, then proceded to a playlist of rodeo songs, then began going MOTS. This more of the same plodded through a dozen or more songs and then — BAM! — up popped Mr. Bojangles. Jerry Jeff Walker, who wrote this song, is one of my favorite country artists but this song has never done it for me. I think the problem is that everybody who covers Mr. Bojangles ends up sounding like Bob Dylan. Warning: This typecast has not been edited.

 

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Collecting typewriters the airline way

May 5, 2019May 5, 2019 L.T. Hanlon4 Comments

Image is of the following typewritten text. Sunday, May 5, 2019. Chicago, USA. Smith—Corona Silent—Super. Boeing or Airbus? I own four mechanical typewriters and one electronic model. That’s two Olympias -- SM3 and SM9 -- and two Smith-Coronas -- both Silent-Supers. And a Hermes 3000 should arrive tomorrow. In many ways, I feel like an airline with a fleet of planes from different manufacturers. Is this a good thing?  With the exception of when it briefly had Boeing 717 planes when it merged with AirTran, Southwest always had flown Boeing planes. And, no, I don’t really consider the 717 a Boeing plane; it's a DC-9 / MD-80 that became part of a blended family. If I recall correctly, Southwest leased the 717’s to Delta. Both Olympia and Smith—Corona are fine machines, but I’m thinking of standardizing my fleet and releasing the Olympias into the wild. That will make me an all-Smith-Corona airline. What about the Hermes? Well, that'll be my executive aircraft like a Caravelle.

 

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I’m going to be an indie author

April 30, 2019May 5, 2019 L.T. Hanlon3 Comments

Image of the following typewritten text. Tuesday, April 30, 3019. Chicago, USA. 1954 Smith-Corona Silent-Super. Today I renewed my commitment to becoming an indie author and banged out more than 3,000 words. That might sound like a lot, but I need to become lots more productive if there's any hope of developing this into a source of income. The past week, in fact, I've started treating my freelance work as just that: work. I have a space set aside to work and I spend close to eight hours a day working there. I'm also planning on posting at least one item daily on my blog — either a standard electronic post or a typecast like this one. In fact, maybe I'll start my day with the blog as a kind of warmup exercise. In addition to sharing professional information, I'm also going to include some personal observations about life, the universe, and everything. I'm unlike to include much about politics because I've long held the opinion that political opinions are like assholes: Everybody has one and they all stink.

[As usual, this typecast is not corrected for typos.]

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