This came with a SCM Calypso manual portable typewriter (likely late 1960s, no later than early 1970s). The IBM punch card was for registering your purchase, and the promo material was for a touch typing course you could order for $5.95 - it was delivered on vinyl records! The machine is around here somewhere, I think....
She passed by southbound in the East River as I was walking on Roosevelt Island, with Manhattan as a back drop. More info about her here: https://ohny.wordpress.com/tag/dep/
The 18 ton steam tug MONITOR was sold for $7,500 in 1900 (equal to about $300k in 2026). The seller was in Chicago, the buyer in Buffalo, NY.
That team was the bomb! Pele, Beckenbauer, Carlos Alberto and friends!
When I am excited about something I bought online, it seems like it takes forever before that email finally shows up, the one that says:
"Your item is on its way! Click here to track your order."
You click that FedEx or USPS number and the site says....
"Shipping label created."
My item's not on its way, you lying mofos!! Email me when you actually SEND me something!!
I'm most excited by the Szabo books, as THE FAWN and THE DOOR were remarkable.
It occurred to me that some erudite property developer must have named a street after Proust's famous first volume. So I typed in "Swann's Way" to Google Maps and found:
- two wooded driveways or access roads in the New England region of the U.S. (with no visible buildings - probably named by homeowners as a whimsical tribute); and
- one actual municipal street. It's in the North Cape region near Bloemfontein, South Africa (basically the center of the country). And it's not as visually compelling as the Swann's Way imagery offered by Proust. I don't think those are hawthorn trees in the distance......
Here's the street view.
On a lake somewhere in Connecticut in the July of 1938s. I think that's my step-grandfather sailing his own rig design.
I just saw another one - posts that say, "Should I finish reading [rando book title]? I'm like halfway through and I just don't like the writing style, or the characters. The plot isn't interesting and I already figured out how it's going to end."
SO STOP READING IT. There's a billion other books to try! It's not our job to talk you into or out of something - exercise your free goddamn will!
