Category Archives: Greg’s Reference

Linkdumping for my Remington Noiseless

Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Greg

I’m going to attempt to repair a typewriter by myself. It is my grandfather’s Remington Noiseless that was once attached to a folding-top desk, which is now moldering in my garage. In fact, it looks almost exactly like the model … Continue reading →

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New WordPress theme

Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 by Greg

I realized I haven’t been posting much, which naturally means I needed to pick a new theme. Updating WordPress gave me the theme you see here as a new option. Its nice and clean, and has an auto-header-cropping feature. Until … Continue reading →

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Jenkintown Drama, 100 years ago

Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Greg

There are many reasons we like living in Jenkintown — good schools, easy train ride into town, strange people — so here’s a little glimpse into the sort of drama that always seems to be percolating everywhere. This time, Jenkintown, … Continue reading →

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Handwriting recognition on the iPad

Posted on Monday, June 21, 2010 by Greg

A new app claims to answer the one major objection I had to buying an iPad: where’s handwriting recognition? So this means I’m buying an iPad, right? No, are you kidding? They’re expensive. I’ll manage without…for now… …and when I … Continue reading →

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Polynesian delight

Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by Greg

I have a secret jones for tiki culture. My iPod’s full of Les Baxter‘s exotica, and my bookcase holds copies of Trader Vic’s Tiki Party! and Sven Kirsten’s indispensable Book of Tiki. Something about the misappropriation creative remixing of other … Continue reading →

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Linkdump: travel and leisure and pants

Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Greg

The Tactical Pants Review: I’m a big fan of cargo shorts. They’re the official shorts of fatherhood, with plenty of room for cameras, juice cups, toys and whatever random cool rocks your kid hands you. But I’m beginning to realize … Continue reading →

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Kung-fu will get you high

Posted on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 by Greg

Here’s an imperfect, but very enjoyable Chemical Brothers/Kung-fu Movie remix. Maybe it is the resolution, I’d like to see an HD version.

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Rabid Mexican Chimps

Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Greg

I think I love this Public Collectors blog. Every day Marc Fisher posts a handful of gems, like this: It is from a collection of portraits of rabid animals from a Mexican school lesson sheet

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Why I don’t go in the water, especially during the Late Miocene

Posted on Monday, May 17, 2010 by Greg

You would think this is going to be a scary post about Megalodons a gigantic predatory, be-toothed demon of creature from 20 million years or so ago — the largest shark in history, in fact, about the length of a … Continue reading →

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My feet are my new ass.

Posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 by Greg

Using the universal rule of New Guy privilege, I managed to finagle my way into getting the facilities folks to purchase a standing computer desk for me. I’ve been thinking about doing this for some time now, ever since I … Continue reading →

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