notjustbill @notjustbill@octodon.social
* renegade typewriter mechanic
* occasional photographer (film & digital)
* infrequent musician
* maker/hacker
* cis/het
* married & a father
* generally weird
I'm really not sure if I'm more fascinated or disturbed by the fact that Google has no problem whatsoever doing #OCR translation on text from a script #typewriter.
#RobotOverlords #Tippa_S #cursive
I finished (the 1st draft) of the first #short_story I've ever willingly written.
Mostly because I own too many #typewriters to not at least attempt to write something. It's a somewhat absurd scifi piece based on the idea that a particular piece of common technology has been faked all along.
I'll probably have to post it sometime after I retype it.
Adler Tippa S with script typeface, if you're curious. Not my favorite in my collection, but a fun little machine anyway.
Went through my own closets like I was on #StorageWars to get ready for the town flea market tomorrow.
Drive an hour & a half, make a 2 minute job take 20 (so the customer knows I did something), and drive an hour & a half back for my next call. #FieldTechLife #companyCar
How slooooow can you go?
-Me, setting up a brand new Win10 computer for a customer
Seriously, #windows users out there. Is it always this painful to use? I've been sitting in front of this brand new Dell all-in-one (customer's purchase) for an hour just trying to get the basics set up and everything is lagging horribly because of all the background updates.
How is that acceptable to normal people?
I came across http://thewritertype.podbean.com while trying to figure out what to do with a story idea in my head (I'm not a writer and don't play one on TV). I found it pretty funny, and since I already drink too much coffee, have no friends & too many typewriters, it's made me think I might almost have what it takes to succeed at failing to be a writer. Only one episode, but I'm looking forward to more.
I think something is wrong with #Amazon's search algorithm. NSFW Show more
Not getting paid enough for this Show more
I find it interesting that both "computer" and #typewriter were once job titles
But more importantly, I want to get my calls done and get back to the shop to clean up the Adler Tippa S cursive #typewriter I scored this weekend at the #fleamarket
I'm sr tech for a small (single digit) service company. 6 months ago a new tech was hired without my input at all. Nice enough guy, but regularly breaks stuff and doesn't RTFM to save his life. Knowing management's biases, I'm pretty sure he wasn't the most qualified person who applied either, but I can't even say "told you so"
Reading about this #SunTrust leak makes me wonder: (aside from why any employee had clear-text access to millions of customer records)
Even if you manage to print 100 records per page, double sided that's still 15 reams of paper (7500 pages).
You know, just casually walk out the door with 75 lbs of paper after spending 5+ hours printing it all out. No big deal
Sitting in a sunny window with a cat in my lap, but I have to leave for work in 5 minutes and I'm not ready to go yet
Rough feelings, parenthood, PPD from the outside Show more
Making is all about screwing up.
It's about having the confidence to screw up in increasingly creative ways.
It's the art of getting it wrong with such flair and panache that you can't help but be entertained by your own ineptitude.
It's the ability to foil so many of your own plans that you are left with no option but to stumble into a solution that works.
A solution, that when found, leaves you awestruck by what you have accomplished.
And it is in pursuit of that awe that the Maker makes.
6 months of icy coldness, 3 months of "it's sort of ok if the sun is out", and 2 1/2 months of oppressive humidity. But at least the leaves are pretty for a week.
- New England
5 years as a copier tech and I'm still kind of disappointed that I have yet to come across anyone running #Linux around here, and constantly amazed at the horrible performance everyone seems to be fine with on their windows systems.
Even though I rarely post or interact, scrolling through the federated timeline before bed made me think about why seeing so many toots in languages I can't even guess at makes me feel good.
It's that everyone has a place to say what they want to say, how they want to say it, and there's no mechanism or algorithm trying to make me think I matter any more than anyone else does.
Typewriter ribbon worn thin, rolled and rerolled countless times, yet it still has ink enough
