Curiosities

One Typed Page

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“It all begins with one typed page.” So starts One Typed Page. You can see a link to it at the top of this page. It will take you to a page of images of One Typed Pages. People have submitted their pages and the editor puts them up early in the day. For example

A post from Kent Peterson.
You can find him there on nearly any day.

In explaining the purpose of the page the editor refers to Cold Hard Type series. That’s a series of books from people who write on typewriters. But it’s not for everyone. And for those that it’s not there is One Typed Page. As he puts it:

We need people who can structure thoughts and ideas, then write a compelling story so others can make sense of the world. It’s easy to stop writing when the seams are coming apart and the world’s supply of toilet paper seems to have dried up. Don’t! Get a clean hanky, wipe away your tears and write. Write like the world depends on your words. Write like a warrior who is fighting for their survival. Write, because if you don’t, you’ll end up in a dark corner, balled up and sobbing.

But that won’t happen, because you’re the typewriter type who punches keys and makes the hammer strike. The force of your fingers is the force of will that conquers the page. Close your web browser, turn off the news, mute your feeds and get on the typewriter.

~ Daniel Marleau, Editor of One Typed Page

You can and are encouraged to contribute. Or you can, like me, drop by the page and read up on what people with typewriters are up to.

You Have Mail

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Are you getting email from the USPS? It looks like this:

USPS Alert

That’s how it starts. What follows is images of the mail that is on its way. Here is an example.

More Mail for Us

It is kinda weird. On the other hand, when you see email from a friend its exciting. What will his letter tell of today?

If you are getting these email tell me about it.

So Much for Lists

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I had a list. Lists are good for keeping to a plan. A plan about what you want to buy. You’ve got the list, you get what’s on it and you’re good.

At Bob’s Red Mill I did pretty well. Just what was on the list. Well, OK, I got a second bag of Vital Wheat Gluten. What kind of cornmeal, coarse or medium? But aside from those two things, we were good.

Then we had lunch out at Mike’s Drive In, a staple of Portland area foods. That’s reputed to be good for grocery shopping. Don’t Shop Hungry! We were not.

Then the final stop of the day. Costco, the first time since January? February? It’s been a while.

One of the items on the list was getting Jennifer’s glasses fixed. She’d snapped the ear off of it. She’s gotten a replacement set of frames and they arrived right before Covid-19 arrived. They would not do the replacement so they waited. Now they would. She’d work with them while I went and picked up what we had on the list.

And I did. And then I went to find Jennifer and we agreed to go look at a couple of items. They got added. And some other things got added. And well, so much for the list. So much for eating before shopping.

We’re set for food for quite awhile.

Does a Turtle Know

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After 20 years in captivity, a loggerhead turtle was released into the sea. She thrived. She swam from Cape Town, South Africa to Australia, her birthplace.

Twenty years ago, “Yoshi arrived at Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium after crew on a Japanese fishing boat found her with a damaged shell.” This was a bigger project for Two Oceans Aquarium. It had only been open for a couple of years. They took on the turtle and kept her. They learned enough that they took on other turtles to rehabilitate.

Well, read the rest here. It’s fascinating.

Unanswered it how the turtle knew where to go. How to communicate with other turtles. They did “train” her to swim longer distances and she ended up spending year or so in the area. But then she took off for Australia.