{"id":1048,"date":"2012-12-18T08:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2013-01-07T14:08:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:08:39","slug":"hermes-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/1048","title":{"rendered":"Hermes is down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_2187\"<\/a>So my new (old) typewriter is down, ribbon broke. I am actually pretty sad about this, because I have really come to enjoy the process of writing on the beast. I usually write directly into the computer or into notebooks. When writing on the computer things like spell check, the internet, games, compiling some program I downloaded last week, tend to distract me. While writing in notebooks is an exercise in frustration. I am gifted with an illegible chicken-scratch for handwriting and most of the pages I write down are worthless. (Ever wish you were British so you could pull off using rubbish in a sentence without sounding like a poser? I do.)
\nAnd after an argument with one of my classmates in my last class about the value of a typewriter, and if it really is that different than computer or app on the phone writing, the bug got into my head, I really wanted a typewriter. My wife mocked me all fall about this, and I kept putting off looking into getting one. And then just after my birthday, low and behold my wife got me a typewriter, she said it was a started and we could look at upgrading if I ended up liking it. This might not happen, for two reasons, I like the typewriter and it has a cute little quirk, rather than a normal Courier style serif font (e.g. Like this example<\/a>) it has a geometric sans serif font (e.g. Like this, note the ‘a’<\/a>), which being a closet font fetishist I have always loved a good geometric sans serif font. So, I believe a trip down to the local typewriter shop (yes, there actually is one, I love Arlington) is in order to get my Hermes 3000 all fixed up. And maybe someday I will talk the wife into getting another one (I am thinking a portable, they have a Hermes model called the baby…)<\/p>\n

Luke W. McCullough
\nlukaswm at gmail dot com
\nHouse of Chaos, Arlington, MA
\nno music playing other than the sounds of rain and garbage men clanging cans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my new (old) typewriter is down, ribbon broke. I am actually pretty sad about this, because I have really come to enjoy the process of writing on the beast. I usually write directly into the computer or into notebooks. When writing on the computer things like spell check, the internet, games, compiling some program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AdCf-gU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1403,"url":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/1403","url_meta":{"origin":1048,"position":0},"title":"Process, again","author":"lm3m","date":"2013.04.30 at 08:17 PM","format":false,"excerpt":"Best ways to understand something is to explain it to someone else. 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