Typecasting on the Lettera 22
20220114 Typecasting on the lettera 22 from Micheal Axelsen MSA/Lettera22-1956/20220114
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Adventures in Typewriting – in Australia
When the lockdown began here in Australia, I – like all of us – found myself with time on my hands. I learnt typing in school, in the old-fashioned way, and that was on big, heavy manual typewriters. They made a satisfying clunk noise when you typed, and frankly my Apple Magic keyboard wasn’t doing … Read more
A Rostrum Speech: To be a little crazy is a good thing.
Crazy? Crazy. Crazy! We are living in a bizarre world. These are crazy times – we have said it so often in the past three months – is it only three? And in crazy times, being normal is not enough. But being too crazy is just going to make things worse. No – to be … Read more
20200421 A Covid Diary
So to try to keep myself a little focussed I’m just doing a bit of a blog entry for today on what I’ve done and been doing. First, this morning we went for a bike ride around UQ and out to Graceville. I’m on my old Repco as the new bike I got for my … Read more
Hidden Dangers
(The below is a speech that I wrote last night for my Rostrum speaking club – the topic was ‘Hidden Dangers) Humans are fragile things. You hit them with a car – they die. You feed them teeny-tiny chunks of arsenic – they die. You lock them in a room without oxygen – they die. And of … Read more