Indigo is quite a nice iOS app for a converged Bluesky and Mastodon experience. I post (POSSE) from my site typically, but replies are almost always done directly on the platforms. A bit of a gap to close, but I’ve never been able to think of a convenient way to do it.

Pausa Bar & Cookery

at Pausa Bar & Cookery

McGovern's Bar

at McGovern's Bar

Neuromaxxing

San Mateo County Event Center

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Please update your Firefox to 150.0.3.

Details: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-45/

Aside: #pwn2own is TOMORROW and they hit capacity for the first time in their 19-year history.

https://hackread.com/pwn2own-berlin-2026-hits-capacity-hackers-0-days/

Today’s a good day to get/install OS and browser updates on all your critical devices.

Consider turning off wifi on non-critical devices (putting to sleep is no longer enough because many devices still listen to or contact the internet while asleep) until you have had a chance to safely update their software (perhaps after software updates are available in response to pwn2own demos and disclosures).

#Mozilla #Firefox #browser #cyberSecurity #cyber #security
#pwn2own #Mozilla #Firefox #browser #cyberSecurity #cyber #security

I will forever adore SmallTalk for being so simple that using it requires you to effectively recreate reality and load it into memory every single time. I shall now teach you the language. “Object message.” Done! Now go teach integers to tell you if they’re even or not. 🤓

For his “Presentation of Learning” at school, my son is doing “The History of Programming Languages.” He asked me to come up with two languages that are the most different to illustrate dynamic/flexible vs. static/rigid. We went with SmallTalk and C++ for maximum chaos.

Wayfare Tavern

at Wayfare Tavern

San Mateo County Event Center

at San Mateo County Event Center

Ride App Pick-up

at Ride App Pick-up

Alaska Lounge

at Alaska Lounge

San Francisco International Airport (SFO)

at San Francisco International Airport (SFO)

Alaska Lounge

at Alaska Lounge

Portland International Airport (PDX)

at Portland International Airport (PDX)

Along with Ron Rosenbaum, Steven Levy, Patricia Highsmith, and the fictional Frank Navasky of You've Got Mail fame, I have joined the Quiet Cult of the Olympia Report de Luxe Electric Typewriter.

I acquired this at thrift for $21.95 on 2026-10-10 for Mother's Day in immaculate condition! It's as if someone used it to type up a few essays then put it in the case for 49 years. Other than some minor wear, this may be the singularly cleanest typewriter I've ever purchased. As my first typebar electric Olympia, I was so looking forward to taking it apart and giving it a full clean, oil, and adjust, but beyond wiping off some exterior dust, this machine really needs no work. I'm both disappointed and elated at the same time. 

A frontal view of 1977 Olympia Report de Luxe typewriter sitting on an oak library card catalog next to a bowl of pink decorative ballsTypesample of a frontal view of 1977 Olympia Report de Luxe typewriter on a yellow manilla tagClose up view of the keyboard of a Olympia Report de Luxe typewriter. Several of the keys like the x, -, and / are in red to indicate that they auto-repeat.View down onto the carriage of a Olympia Report de Luxe typewriterClose up of a sales and service sticker on the hood of a Olympia Report de Luxe typewriter. In gray with gold lettering it reads "J&H Office Equipment, 119 E. Main | PH 587-7104 | BozemanOblique view from the left side of a Olympia Report de Luxe typewriter. In the front left corner of the keyboard is a switch for setting and clearing tabs.
"Now listen to this.  The gentle and soothing lullaby of a piece of machinery so perfect --" —Frank Navasky, YOU'VE GOT MAIL (Warner Bros., 1998)
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#Acquisition #Social Stream #Typewriters #Frank Navasky #Luddites #Olympia Report De Luxe #Olympia typewriters #Ron Rosenbaum #Steven Levy #typewriter collection #You've Got Mail
It's waffle day! Cooked and packed 76 waffles (9.5 weeks of waffles)

For dinner, I reverse-seared a whole beef tenderloin, served with a brandy peppercorn sauce, roasted fingerling potatoes, and some veg. Dessert was supposed to be my grandmother’s Hershey Cake, but I am a terrible baker and ended up having to improvise, but it was still tasty.

Whew, what a weekend. My daughter had four theater performances, my son had D&D club, my mother in law is visiting, and I cooked a huge meal for Mother’s Day. I’m zonked!

My first ever Woodstock. Acquired via thrift for $50 on 2026-05-08. Possibly a bit more expensive than it might have otherwise been, but the key rings are in stunning shape, and the work to polish them is easily worth several hundred in labor! The decals are also in exceptional condition. Aside from some cosmetic damage to the typebar hood, this machine is in exceptionally great cosmetic condition and will be even more so following a full polish of the body and the brights.

Quick initial work

  • Naturally it needs a new ribbon, but it's got enough ink left for a quick typesample.
  • A fast dusting and a preliminary scrub of the carriage rails and a few other parts with isopropyl alcohol and it's ready for some basic work. Primarily the return lever and the margin sets were very gummy, while the keylevers had some pretty good action without any attention. (Someone really loved this machine.)
  • The carriage return lever needed some forming so that it no longer scrapes on the typebar hood.
  • A quick cleaning of the slugs which were in reasonable shape. List of work to be done:
  • The tabulator needs some adjustment to work properly as the tab mechanism is sitting a bit high and causes the carriage to scrape.
  • It's going to need a ring and cylinder adjustment so that it's not damaging the platen anymore, though the platen is so hard that it needs replacement anyway.
  • The rubber feet are usable, but need replacement.
  • The space key also may need some timing attention, but perhaps the slow symptoms will disappear with a full cleaning?
  • The rulers (5!) are slightly out of adjustment.
  • Full clean, oil, and adjust A day's worth of cleaning and some modest adjustments and this should be a fantastic little machine.

Interesting features

  • I love the fact that this has some interesting paper fingers. They don't seem to be well-suited to index card work however.
  • The unique ribbon reverse mechanism (a small metal button) is adjustable on either side.
  • It doesn't have an individual tab clear button, but, in lieu, has a clear all tabs lever.
  • I love the design of the ribbon color selector which requires pulling a spring-loaded button out to switch colors---no accidental color changes here.
  • Rather than a traditional "margin release" button it has a "line lock release", but like the Olympia SG series, it only locks when typing characters, but will blow past the margins if using the spacebar.
  • Rather than a more common line space selector, this has a knurled knob that needs to be pulled out and set with a pin-type mechanism. This also means that the selector can't accidentally change its setting for any reason.
  • The Woodstock No. 5 is an early carriage shift standard
  • The typebar hood is made of some sort of early plastic and slides onto the top of the machine. While it's borne the brunt of most of the machine's cosmetic damage, it is easy to remove for typing "naked". It goes on quickly to help protect the internals from ambient dust.
According to the TWdB page for the Woodstock, the 8-12 prefix on the serial number indicates a 12" carriage (the width of the rubber portion of the platen). There isn't any extant detail to indicate what the suffix "E" in the serial number means, though one might presume the elite or 12 pitch typeface?

Historic Users of the Woodstock

Users of Woodstock typewriters included:
  • Robert Bloch
  • Howard Fast
  • Alger Hiss (1929 standard #230099)
  • Sir Patrick Moore
  • J.C. Oldfield (editor of the Associated Press's London bureau, 1930s)
  • Gordon Parks ("Can you dig it?")

Woodstock manuals

Richard Polt has manuals for the Woodstock available on his site at:  A frontal view of a Woodstock standard typewriter in black enamel sits on a black wooden bar next to an old fashioned glass and the several bottles of liquor.An angle on the keyboard of a Woodstock typewriter keyboard. The silver keyrings and glass top keys gleam without any tarnish.Type sample of a Woodstock No. 5 typewriter showing off it's standard elite-sized type in upper and lower case.
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