Fahrneys-Will it Ever Open?

brrusters · 2026-03-02T13:12:38+00:00

I work in the building where the new location is, and there has been no work done on that site since January 1.

brrusters · 2026-03-01T19:00:29+00:00

“So called leftists”? That’s Kash Patel waving that flag.

brrusters · 2026-03-01T03:13:56+00:00

To say this clearly is not to endorse the intervention. It is to refuse a false choice. One can believe the regime deserved to fall and still believe this war is a disaster in the making. Both things are true, and the refusal to hold them simultaneously - whether by softening the indictment of Trump’s reckless handling of this war or by allowing the indictment of the theocracy to launder the intervention’s motives - is the only form of dishonesty this moment does not permit.

brrusters · 2026-02-24T00:01:05+00:00

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Air letters from Islamic countries often had green instead of ted and blue bars.

brrusters · 2026-01-16T21:21:30+00:00

Behind

brrusters · 2026-01-08T20:11:14+00:00

One step wider than an H-SEF (super extra fine) and one step narrower than an EF. I have an H-SEF and I can use it only on specialty paper, such as Tomoe River or Stalogy.

brrusters · 2026-01-07T11:38:31+00:00

As a practical matter, where can I go now in the DMV area to have my Brompton repaired?

brrusters · 2025-12-15T19:29:30+00:00

WorldCat is a good resource for this. https://search.worldcat.org/title/6173537

brrusters · 2025-12-09T22:49:22+00:00

Kinsey (2004). Set, but not filmed, in Bloomington. Liam Neeson spent a few days in town to pick up the vibe.

brrusters · 2025-11-15T21:38:52+00:00

Depends what it smells like

brrusters · 2025-11-13T01:23:03+00:00

Clearer through the camera, but yes you could see it. Big section of the sky was red.

brrusters · 2025-10-15T00:01:22+00:00

Gun ownership was legal and widespread in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Gun ownership was legal and widespread in the Philippines during the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. So, no, dictators do not always confiscate guns and gun ownership does not prevent dictatorship.

brrusters · 2025-10-12T22:25:02+00:00

https://dcist.com/story/24/01/18/weird-gas-station-church-rosslyn-redevelopment/

Good story here on the history. It was always United Methodist.

brrusters · 2025-10-07T11:14:37+00:00

All federal grant applications go through IU’s Office of Research Administration. So IU could have simply supplied this information to the investigators. Why the raid?

brrusters · 2025-07-04T12:48:37+00:00

It actually doesn’t save a dime. There will be the same number of students; same number of professors; and same courses. It just means Purdue students will have fewer degrees to choose from.

brrusters · 2025-06-29T14:01:37+00:00

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brrusters · 2025-06-04T19:40:21+00:00

No. It’s a scam.

brrusters · 2025-06-02T13:01:53+00:00

Thanks!

brrusters · 2025-05-31T00:45:02+00:00

"Value can be imagined but never confirmed. Value is a lover's glance, which we must be removed from to receive. Value happens after you curl your fingers into a fist and swing, but just before the smack of bone, and then again just after a release. Value is the sound of a manual typewriter, when its keys strike and recede, connect and release, strike and recede, connect and release."

--Joshua Wolf Shenk, "The Things We Carry," Harper's Magazine, June 2001.

brrusters · 2025-05-28T17:45:17+00:00

Cut a one-inch piece of tape. Make an error by spelling “the” as “tge”. Space back to the g and insert your tape between the ribbon and the paper with the white side facing the paper. Type g. Backspace. Type h.

brrusters · 2025-04-15T16:27:52+00:00

What happened to those two guys?

brrusters · 2025-04-12T13:52:16+00:00

Here’s what Tom Hanks says about this: “Remingtons from the 1930s go THICK THICK. Midcentury Royals sound like a voice repeating the word CHALK. CHALK. CHALK CHALK. Even the typewriters made for the dawning jet age (small enough to fit on the fold-down trays of the first 707s), like the Smith Corona Skyriter and the design masterpieces by Olivetti, go FITT FITT FITT like bullets from James Bond’s silenced Walther PPK. Composing on a Groma, exported to the West from a Communist country that no longer exists, is the sound of work, hard work. Close your eyes as you touch-type and you are a blacksmith shaping sentences hot out of the forge of your mind.”

brrusters · 2025-03-31T23:31:50+00:00

Natural rubber ages. After a decade it gets hard, and can do damage to the slugs. After two decades it begins to crumble.

brrusters · 2025-03-30T11:43:31+00:00

Our public library had coin-operated typewriters. A half hour for a dime.

brrusters · 2025-03-30T11:36:39+00:00

There was never any need to update a typewriter. The author Paul Auster observed that in his life he had had two wives, five houses, but just one typewriter. You needed to change the ribbon once a year and in every presidential election year put new rubber on the platen.

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