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The Tagalong Press: I Have Become One of Them
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Oh you of limited vision! The grapheme is ephemeral and weakness is not a skill! Saturday, January 25, 2014. I Have Become One of Them. The usual human-as-delusional mindset that results from tacking ideas on to each other in a not-to-rational sort of basis for how things work. Superstition, if you must. But I still wanted to do something to be part of the schtick. Beyond dancing wildly in a circle with my sons at the post-wedding party. At which point I got the idea that I could make up a huge pile of d...
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The Tagalong Press: April 2008
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Oh you of limited vision! The grapheme is ephemeral and weakness is not a skill! Monday, April 28, 2008. Restoration Almost Complete, Part II. The hinge point on the Gordon is about an inch in diameter. The face of the clamp that holds the treadle on the press is machined for a piece of metal about a quarter inch larger. Thus there was side-to-side play and a wobble to the movement of the treadle under foot. But, oh, what a difference that made. First, the flopping about ended. The treadle had only o...
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The Tagalong Press: December 2007
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Oh you of limited vision! The grapheme is ephemeral and weakness is not a skill! Tuesday, December 18, 2007. Maize Jenny Pawed a Studio. There's a scene I remember from a Monty Python movie possibly The Meaning of Life. Where Death has shown up at a door of a house where some British folks are entertaining guests from Gringoland. Death is there to do a job but he's been mistaken for one of the local rustics, and thus ends up at the table with the Brits and the Gringos. They have a studio. Of making somet...
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The Tagalong Press: December 2009
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Oh you of limited vision! The grapheme is ephemeral and weakness is not a skill! Tuesday, December 15, 2009. Once Again with the Rollers. I'm fixin' up an order for new rollers from Ramco Roller Products. And trying to get things worked out so I can retire in February with enough type and equipment in good repair to spend the next however many heartbeats with stuff I like to do for fun and occasionally for a couple bucks. But I do need the rollers. So I'm getting set to get that press new rollers. Well, ...
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The Tagalong Press: Patience & Goudy Californian
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Oh you of limited vision! The grapheme is ephemeral and weakness is not a skill! Thursday, February 4, 2010. Patience and Goudy Californian. Back when I was a wee lad, my father took a couple pictures of me with his printing stuff. I’ve got what I can only guess are third or forth generation copies of these pictures. They’re framed and hand on the ratty walls of my garage clutter print shop. At which point the old man gets a CreateSpace. Account, which is where all this type and press and writing gets ug...
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The Tagalong Press: February 2008
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Oh you of limited vision! The grapheme is ephemeral and weakness is not a skill! Monday, February 25, 2008. Check This Out, Yo! Everybody who's ever taken a course or who has read the book knows that one of the first things to do when putting a form in a chase and then putting that on the press involves moving the grippers. That's a nice way of saying that the type is going to get smashed into the grippers. Now there's another minor codicil to this rule, that being the mandatory removal of any extension ...
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The Tagalong Press: February 2010
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Oh you of limited vision! The grapheme is ephemeral and weakness is not a skill! Thursday, February 4, 2010. Patience and Goudy Californian. Back when I was a wee lad, my father took a couple pictures of me with his printing stuff. I’ve got what I can only guess are third or forth generation copies of these pictures. They’re framed and hand on the ratty walls of my garage clutter print shop. At which point the old man gets a CreateSpace. Account, which is where all this type and press and writing gets ug...
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The Tagalong Press: Restoration Almost Complete, Part I
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Oh you of limited vision! The grapheme is ephemeral and weakness is not a skill! Saturday, April 12, 2008. Restoration Almost Complete, Part I. One of the happy coincidences of my life has been the good fortune to run into folks who have or do stuff that I need, usually pretty close up to when or where I need it. Rehabilitating presses, once a pleasurable experience but now a pretty nasty chore, what. First big project was rollers. That was solved by my luck of finding out about Ramco Roller Products.
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The Consternation of an Apoplectic Spirit: April 2007
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From the Midwest of the North American Continent View my complete profile. Friday, April 20, 2007. The Antibiotics of Passion. According to the official story, the plague that ravaged Europe in 1633 somehow managed to sicken only a few folks living in the German village of Oberammergau. This happened because the townsfolk of that age prayed to the almighty savior, Jesus ( bow your head with humility here. If he would spare them the affliction of the plague. At least that's the official story. But you hav...
