@Luke That may be a good price for being in such good shape... but also more than I want to spend on something I will probably let gather dust after a few weeks 😂
…until power and internet go down and we start sending thoughtful letters to eachother just to check in …delivered via horseback? I suppose that’s an entirely different set of concerns. 😬
@jasonsantamaria@bw Ha! That’s true, too! Let’s remember that pen and pencil are chaotic and unreliable now that we’ve used computer keyboards for fifty years.
@Luke That may be a good price for being in such good shape... but also more than I want to spend on something I will probably let gather dust after a few weeks 😂
…until power and internet go down and we start sending thoughtful letters to eachother just to check in …delivered via horseback? I suppose that’s an entirely different set of concerns. 😬
@jasonsantamaria@bw Ha! That’s true, too! Let’s remember that pen and pencil are chaotic and unreliable now that we’ve used computer keyboards for fifty years.
@jasonsantamaria@Luke@bw I've been taking longhand notes for some months. It was painful at first. But I retain more ideas, easily over double. Something in the inconvenience of it?
I'm eying that typewriter. Bet it's inconvenient AF, I must have it!
@theo@Luke@bw Nice! I take longhand notes too for the same reasons and love it. Though I really want to take some time out to resuscitate my handwriting.
Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.
@AnthonyBaker@jasonsantamaria that is a really great point. Nowadays keyboard enthusers talk about micronometric pressure used on current key switches, meanwhile