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Chris Aldrich
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humanist & typewriter collector
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You’re Invited to Another Southern California Type-In!
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#typewriters #typein
The palm tree and sunshine dappled storefront of Vroman's Bookstore featuring a WRDSMTH mural of a typewriter.
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Geoffrey Chaucer in The House of Flame on staring at "screens" all day:

For when your labour's all done
And you've made all the accounts
Instead of rest and other things
You go straight home
And as dumb as any stone
Sit at another book
Till your eyes are fully dazed

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White index card with blue ink in a Royal KMG typewriter that reads: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) in The House of Flame on staring at "screens" all day: For when your labour's all done And you've made all the accounts Instead of rest and other things You go straight home And as dumb as any stone Sit at another book Till your eyes are fully dazed
July 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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If anyone is interested in joining a group of note takers who are reading Roland Allen's The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper over the coming month: boffosocko.com/2025/07/16/t...
We start our discussion on Saturday.
#Zettelkasten
A copy of The Notebook sits on a desk in front of a Royal KMG typewriter, a drawer from a card catalog full of index cards, some blank index cards, a fountain pen and a Negroni cocktail off to one side.
July 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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You're invited to a Southern California Type-In! Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM at Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA
#TypewriterRevolution #TypeIn #Typewriters
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View of the front street entrance of Vroman's Bookstore. An elegant purple lettered sign hangs over the door. In the foreground is an artistic and quirky plastic red "chair" in front of a Little Free Library box. On the adjacent wall is the window for Tepito Coffee with a yellow lettered sign. Beside this is a painted wall mural featuring a typewriter painted in red with a page coming out of it that reads: I will forever be in love with you. And that's not fiction.
March 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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In most cases, the word “CEO” is a lie.

It’s usually a propaganda word for violent money addicts with severe mental illness.

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Screen capture of Elon Musk tweet that reads: In most cases, the word “homeless” is a lie. It’s usually a propaganda word for violent drug addicts with severe mental illness.
December 10, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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You can't doomscroll on a typewriter...
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White index card with typewritten Vogue typeface in blue ink which reads: You can't doomscroll on a typewriter... ...eventually you get to the bottom of the page and need to switch out your paper.
October 6, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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Ever thought about studying #mathematics for fun?!?

Dr. Miller will be teaching Fundamentals of Point-Set Topology at UCLA Extension starting 9/24. I hope some new folks will join our merry band of math & physics hobbyists this fall.
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Point-set Topology at UCLA Extension, Fall 2024
Ever wanted to study math just for the fun of it? Join the club...
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September 16, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Today's typewriter:
In a devilish mood with Halloween on the horizon, today I'm pairing a Fireball Whisky with my Remington 666 typewriter.
What's your pairing? 🔥🥃⌨️
#TypewriterPairings #typewriters #AmWriting
An oak library card catalog with a cream and black Remington 666 typewriter featured in the middle and flanked by two stuffed Halloween characters. At the back of the catalog is a magnum of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky and a crystal old fashioned glass with ice and whisky. The bottle of Fireball features a black label with a red flaming devil on it coordinating with the bright red ribbon in the typewriter which is emblazoned with the model number "666" in red across its front.
September 15, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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Aggregated Resources and Playlist for a Crash Course on the Olympia SM3 Portable Typewriter
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#typewriter
Olympia SM3 Portable Typewriter: Aggregated Resources for a Crash Course
I've been aggregating some related Olympia SM3 (and other SM family) resources and videos which include several on use, a few comparing them to other machines (for those considering buying them), and ...
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July 14, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Users of the early Henry Dreyfuss Royal Quiet De Luxe Portable #Typewriters
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Users of the early Henry Dreyfuss Royal Quiet De Luxe Portable Typewriters
Identifying the typewriters of Vladimir Nabokov, Theodore Sturgeon, Alastair Cooke, James Michener, Anne Sexton, Stephen King, and Marlon Brando.
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June 25, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Collective Nouns for Typewriters and Typists
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Collective Nouns for Typewriters and Typists
As a typewriter collector it would be more fun to have a clever collective noun for a group of typists at a type-in. Similarly it would be nice to have a name for a collection of typewriters themselve...
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May 25, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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A Small Brother Charger 11 Repair Surgery #typewriters
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A Small Brother Charger 11 Repair Surgery
I spent some time today doing surgery on my Brother Charger 11 Correction typewriter. It was quite relaxing to tinker around for a bit and appreciate the sparse, but clever and solid internals of this...
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May 16, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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Some how it felt sacrilegious to post it to Goodreads and not to type my status update for Richard Polt's poetic paean to #typewriters
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A 3x5 inch blue library book charge card with space for the book title at the top and fields for date and issued to below. Typewritten, it reads: Polt, Richard The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century Countryman Press, Woodstock, VT, 2015 Under DATE column it reads: 2024-04-29 Under ISSUED TO column it reads Intro, ch1, ch2 At the very bottom of the card in small blue type original to the card is the ordering information: BRO DART CAT. No. 23-115 PRINTED IN USA
April 30, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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A version of the timeline of some of the intellectual history I presented today at #PKMSummit in Utrecht. I’m happy to answer any questions.
#PKM #zettelkasten #productivity #CommonplaceBooks
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Personal Knowledge Management Timeline
It covers variations of personal knowledge management, commonplace books, zettelkasten, indexing, etc. I wish we'd had time for so much more, but I hope some of the ideas and examples are helpful in g...
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March 22, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Typecast orientation
#typecast
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Typewritten white index card that reads: Typecast orientation In composing typecasts for online distribution, I'm wondering if typing them on 4x6" index cards may work out better if I do them in portrait rather than in landscape orientation? This will be an experiment. Let me know what you think, will you? Alternately, given the card storage I've got, perhaps I ought to do landscape as I always have and Just worry about it from the perspective of the website's theme?
December 21, 2023 at 4:59 PM
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“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.”
—Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book? (1932)
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Typed index card which reads "The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." ---Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book? (1932) # reading practices # advice
December 19, 2023 at 6:34 PM
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My goal for the day 2 at camp is to get my site set up so that I can type a post and with a quick photo send it to my website as a post there. As a reach goal, I’d also like to get alt-text working as well for accessibility. I’m hoping I can leverage... #IndieWeb #FTW
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White index card with the typewritten text IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023-12-17 My goal for the day 2 at camp is to get my site set up so that I can type a post and with a quick photo send it to my website as a post there. As a reach goal, I’d also like to get alt text working as well for accessibility. I'm hoping I can leverage some of my prior work on posting handwritten posts to get this all done. #IndieWeb #FTW
December 17, 2023 at 8:04 PM
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Christmas has come early this year! This is so much better than a lump of coal.  Thanks Santa. 🎅🏼🗃️
#ZettelkastenChristmas
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A brick of 10 packs of 100 index cards boldly labeled Oxford 41. They are wrapped with a green ribbon and a sprig of evergreen with red berries and a small Santa Claus card all sitting on a wooden card index.
December 12, 2023 at 6:21 PM
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I feel validated that I'm not the only one in love with their wooden card catalog:
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Burly man with a full beard and tattoos in a trucker hat cuddled up to a tall, lithe vintage wooden card catalog. The catalog could easily be a person the way he's cuddling up next to it with his arm around it and his head snuggled up to it's head.
December 3, 2023 at 8:23 PM
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Library charging trays for vertically oriented 3 x 5″ index cards
#zettelkasten #pkm #hipsterPDA #memindex
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Library charging trays for vertically oriented 3 x 5″ index cards | Chris Aldrich
Amidst my seemingly ever-growing collection of index card boxes and trays, I've been contemplating getting something that would store cards in a vertical orientation rather than the traditional horizo...
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November 30, 2023 at 6:56 AM
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Looking at my website's traffic logs, I see some spurts of traffic from LMS platforms at University of Mary Washington and Furman. I can't help but wondering who's assigning my website for classes, but the thought tickles me pink.
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November 28, 2023 at 7:38 PM
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Planning has begun for a potential in-person IndieWebCamp in San Diego, CA in December. Interested in attending? Can you help out? Register your interest now and save some dates. #IndieWeb
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Planning - IndieWeb
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November 18, 2023 at 7:17 PM
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Index Card Cases, Wallets, Covers, Pouches, etc. for your note taking and #zettelkasten practices
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Index Card Cases, Wallets, Covers, Pouches, etc.
Note taking on the go? Here are some solutions for holding your index cards together until you can file them away in your zettelkasten.
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November 10, 2023 at 5:59 AM
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Testing out this Bluesky thing, but only because there's enough support to allow some #IndieWeb goodness. #POSSE #FTW
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November 5, 2023 at 4:39 AM