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Category Archives: Technology
Restoring that ol’ saw – a Hammond Glider
Now that the Smyth machine is working, I decided to take on a new project. Last fall I offered to restore a 1960s era Hammond Glider TrimOsaw for the Shakespeare Press Museum at Cal Poly. This machine is best described … Continue reading
Running the Landa Nanopress
Part III [Part II] [Part I] After numerous visits to the printing plant where the Landa Nanopress is running, I have a pretty good idea of how that machine works. I am assisted by a very nice diagram on the … Continue reading
Lining Livermore, der zweite Teil
This is a continuation of a blog I wrote two days ago. To read the first part, click here. After I put all the letters (called “glyphs” In typography) into a master Adobe Illustrator document, I built the destination environment for the … Continue reading
Posted in Software, Technology, Typography
Tagged Antique type, ATF, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, FontLab, Shakespeare Press Museum, type design, Type Network
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German & EU Pharmaceutical Safety using Blindenschrift
I walked into the local Apotheke this afternoon to buy a couple of over-the-counter medicines. Both were easy to find. I paid at the cashier’s counter and turned down an offer for a bag to carry the two small packages. … Continue reading
Posted in Language and grammar, People, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology
Tagged Blindenschrift, Braille labeling for the visually-impaired, Braille package lettering, Braille printing on pharmaceuticals, Brian Lawler, EU pharmaceutical packaging, German pharmaceutical packaging, The Blognosticator
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Saved by the wire (and the fiber-optic cable)
You would never think that a wire could slow Internet speed. Well, perhaps you would think of that, but I hadn’t thunk about it much. I was once warned by my friend Eric that the wrong kind of wire could … Continue reading
Saved by the RAID
I’m in my second week of online teaching. It’s particularly difficult because my class is a hands-on course in digital photography and color management. But this quarter it’s all hands-off. And that is making me crazy. The announcement that I … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Mac Pro, OWC, RAID, Screencast-o-matic, SSD replacement, Thunderbolt, Vimeo, Zoom conferences
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Electronic motor control
and my obsession with a 1935 bookbinding machine
This is the second part of my obsession story. To read the first part, please click here. And that’s where my odyssey began. Alternating current induction motors use the frequency of the line power (60 Hz in our case) to … Continue reading
Running the five-color
Pearl press postcard
In 2019 I began the restoration of an 1895 Pearl press, a treadle-powered letterpress that was donated to the Cal Poly Shakespeare Press Museum. That press was a rusty machine when we took delivery of it. I took it to … Continue reading
An EOS R follow-up:
two months later
I bought the Canon EOS R camera in May after considerable research and a one-week rental test of the device. I am the Staff Photographer of Festival Mozaic, a classical music festival in San Luis Obispo. Each year I shoot … Continue reading
Posted in Art, New technology, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Technology
Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Canon camera, Canon EOS R, EOS R, Festival Mozaic, Grace Park
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The Laowa Probe macro lens – after a week
I have been shooting with the Laowa lens now for a week. Of course it rained for three days, so I didn’t get out as much as I had hoped. My overall impression of the lens: it’s well-built. It’s beautifully … Continue reading