Giving MiniMax-2.7 a try with OpenClaw today. GLM-5.1 is a solid model, but Z.AI throttles heavily, and I often see my sessions falling back down to the worst models they have.

Manor Country Club

at Manor Country Club

Farmer's Market

at Farmer's Market

Call Your Mother

at Call Your Mother

JINYA Ramen Bar

at JINYA Ramen Bar

Canopy by Hilton Washington DC Bethesda North

at Canopy by Hilton Washington DC Bethesda North

North Bethesda Metro Station

at North Bethesda Metro Station

Gallery Place - Chinatown Metro Station

at Gallery Place - Chinatown Metro Station

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Metro Station

at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Metro Station

Acquired via thrift on April 10, 2026. It finally fills my itch to have an italic typeface for use in personal correspondence. It's in spectacular starting condition though a bit gamey, but this should clean up nicely. It immediately needed a bit of forming on the carriage lock and a new ribbon, but it's generally ready to be in the regular rotation. 

Front view of a 1962 Olympia SM7 typewriter sitting on a library card catalog next to a vase of flowers.Type sample from a 1962 Olympia SM7 typewriter with a well-rounded italic typeface in 10 point pitch.
#Acquisition #Social Stream #Typewriters #Italic Pica No. 31 typeface #Olympia SM7 #Olympia typewriters #typefaces #typewriter collection

Not sure how to feel about the Rams taking Ty Simpson. I’ve developed an appreciation for spending money on elite QBs, both in college (Cam Ward, Carson Beck, Mensah) and in the pros (Stafford).

📗 Want to read The Meaning of Anxiety by Rollo May ISBN: 9780393350876

This scene in Barry destroys me—especially this part of the scene. Bill Hader said that the “king of suck balls mountain” was improv and that he could barely hold it together. Once you know, it’s clear as day that Hader was puckering. YouTube Scene

I watched the fascinating documentary Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal (Magnolia Pictures, 2015) last night. An hour and thirteen into the picture, William F. Buckley Jr., who is known to have used a Royal HH and an Olivetti Lettera 32, can be seen abusing what appears to be a Hermes 3000 portable typewriter. William F. Buckley in a white shirt with a sweater over it and wearing his signature glasses begins a new line of writing on a Hermes 3000 typewriterBill Buckley typing on a Hermes 3000 typewriter at the end of a line.Bill Buckley's fingers typing out an article on the mint green keys of a Hermes typewriter
#Photo #Social Stream #Typewriters #Best of Enemies #typewriters in media #typewriters of authors #William F. Buckley Jr.
I've expanded my index card database storage by 30 new drawers of 13 3/4" of space each. This model appears to be a Gaylord Bros. card index, but is missing explicit badging. It has the appropriate size for the modular Gaylord system and seems to be missing a few pieces including some of the dovetail pieces which would typically hold the unit securely together. Sadly, it's also missing all the card rods. The top seems to have been added from another unit and has a large crack in it. A few of the drawers need some minor nail and/or gluing attention.  It's definitely in rougher condition than my first Gaylord card index. The piece needs a fair amount of refurbishment work. The stain has gone a tad to the green side, but I'm on the fence about stripping, sanding, and re-staining the whole thing. I am considering refurbishing one section and adding it to my primary Gaylord cabinet as I think the two would match up very well.  It's in functional and usable shape, so I spent a couple hours blowing it out with my air compressor, cleaning it off, fixing a few nails, and giving it a much needed coat of furniture polish.  I was happy to pick it up for a price tag of $200 (or $6.66 per drawer), though it may have been a bit much for something in this condition compared to prior purchases. The seller did mention that they had more than six interested parties at this price within just two hours of listing, so I suppose I'm lucky that I saw it and responded as quickly as I did. Of course within that timeframe it was in my vehicle and headed home. The base has a property tag from the city of Arcadia, but the owner has had it for the past 30 years and was using it primarily for baseball card storage.

New Grand Total

Recalculating from my collection of card indexes, I think this new cabinet brings my total up to 10 “boxes” with a total of 107 drawers featuring almost 160 linear feet of index card storage space. This comes out to the possibility of storing 265,475 index cards, with a cost per drawer hovering around $11.00 and still dropping.
#Acquisition #Social Stream #analog office #card catalogs #filing cabinets #library card catalogs #zettelkasten boxes
Las Vegas Convention Center

at Las Vegas Convention Center

Viva Coffee & Espresso

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Las Vegas Convention Center

at Las Vegas Convention Center

La Cave Food & Wine Hideaway

at La Cave Food & Wine Hideaway

Wynn Las Vegas

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