# olympia (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover olympia. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/19/1971-hermes-3000-3rd-generation-portable-typewriter/) _2026-08-19 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ Purchased from from Jan M. Macho in Pasadena, CA. This was the personal typewriter of his father John J. Macho, Sr., an émigré from Czechoslovakia who was in regional sales for Paillard in America and sold millions of Hermes typewriters. Jan Macho, Sr.’s grandson Chris Macho eulogized his grandfather on Instagram: This is a Hermes … Continue reading ## [The Charlie Browniest: SCM Corsair Deluxe](https://myoldtypewriter.com/2026/08/16/the-charlie-browniest-scm-corsair-deluxe/) _2026-08-16 · maryech · myoldtypewriter_ A local enthusiast s new acquisition, a battered 197x Smith-Corona Corsair Deluxe came to me for a clean-up. Showing this scrawny thing a little love was surprisingly fulfilling. I think it needed me. Jean is a local artist, art teacher, and typewriter enthusiast. She picked up this Corsair Deluxe at a thrift shop for $11.00 and \[ \] ## [Captured Current](https://olympiatime.com/2026/08/15/captured-current/) _2026-08-15 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ When you walk into Tumwater Falls Park, the Olympia Tumwater Foundation office is on your left and the WDFW hatchery facility on your right, directly ahead of you is the uppermost falls in the park. Google Maps marks it as a waterfall. Of course it does. Any water falling over a ledge looks like a \[ \] ## [Groups, Fields, and Galois: Part 1 | UCLA Extension](https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/13/groups-fields-and-galois-part-1-ucla-extension/) _2026-08-13 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ Dr. Michael Miller, a retired researcher at RAND, has been teaching upper level undergraduate/graduate level math courses for fun at UCLA Extension for over 50 years. This fall he ll be introducing the areas of groups, fields, and Galois theory from abstract algebra to those interested in abstract math: Groups, Fields, and Galois: Part 1. His Continue reading Groups, Fields, and Galois: Part 1… ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/12/1959-olympia-sm3-portable-typewriter/) _2026-08-13 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ Found at The Predecessors while typewriter hunting in Anacortes, WA. It was paired with another similar green Olympia SM3, but I immediately picked this one up because of its beautiful and uncommon typeface. It ll need several new parts including rubber, but this portends to be a fantastic typewriter. ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/11/wooden-letter-tray-stock-no-721/) _2026-08-11 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ Papa s got a brand new in-box. Picked up at thrift for $3.30. ## [A Stopgap Repair Solution for Impatient New Olympia SM3 Typewriter Owners](https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/08/a-stopgap-repair-solution-for-impatient-new-olympia-sm3-typewriter-owners/) _2026-08-09 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ You just picked up a dusty, but somewhat functional Olympia SM3 and you know that you need to replace the rubber body bushings to prevent your carriage from hitting the body panels and scratching the paint job. The problem is that you ve got a lovely new-to-you typewriter in front of you, and you don t have Continue reading A Stopgap Repair Solution for Impatient New Olympia SM3 Typewriter Owners ## [Rhyming History and the Center Not Holding](https://olympiatime.com/2026/08/08/rhyming-history-and-the-center-not-holding/) _2026-08-08 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ Somebody in the Daily Olympian newsroom set the type for a headline on election night in 1896 that would have sounded impossible two years earlier. Fusionists Get It All. Every county office in Thurston County, captured by a coalition of Populists, Democrats, and Silver Republicans, three factions that had spent most of the decade distrusting \[ \] ## [Maytown and the Long Tide](https://olympiatime.com/2026/08/01/maytown-and-the-long-tide/) _2026-08-01 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ Maytown was flooded before it had a name. Around 16,500 years ago an ice dam gave way, releasing a wall of meltwater that tore south across what would become southern Thurston County. This was the Tanwax Flood, one of the last violent acts of the Vashon Stade, and it did more than carve the ground. \[ \] ## [Parts in a Box: 1949 Remington All-New Portable](https://myoldtypewriter.com/2026/07/31/parts-in-a-box-1949-remington-all-new-portable/) _2026-07-31 · maryech · myoldtypewriter_ Parts in a Box Syndrome is a well-known typewriter affliction caused by a typewriter owner s fever of initial excitement, a flurry of dismantling, progressive confusion, and eventual forgetfulness. The victim of the syndrome is the typewriter which usually becomes a Parts Machine™ or Project Machine™. I know that I have about 24 hours after dismantling \[ \] ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qWVdkWbdca0c) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [„Ich finde es schön, dass wir den CSD in dieser Stadt haben“](https://www.mopo.de/podcast/wie-ist-die-lage/ich-finde-es-schoen-dass-wir-den-csd-in-dieser-stadt-haben/4911173) _2026-07-31 · Podcast_ In der aktuellen Folge von „Wie ist die Lage?“ ist Hamburgs Justizsenatorin Anna Gallina zu Gast bei Lars Meier. ## [„Eine Gesellschaft, die Kritik nicht aushält, die lernt auch nichts mehr“](https://www.mopo.de/podcast/wie-ist-die-lage/eine-gesellschaft-die-kritik-nicht-aushaelt-die-lernt-auch-nichts-mehr/4898723) _2026-07-24 · Podcast_ In dieser Folge von „Wie ist die Lage?“: Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren über den Hochschulbetrieb, Künstliche Intelligenz und mehr. ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/07/23/lit-ning-model-1k-card-index-for-2-x-3-5-cards/) _2026-07-24 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ I picked up this vintage card index meant for filing business cards on July 20th for a fantastic $1.50. I hadn t seen a card index this small before and suspected that it was designed as a sort of Rolodex for storing 2 x 3.5 standard business cards. It makes an excellent storage for those as Continue reading ## [Shift Work: 1957 Royal Quiet De Luxe](https://myoldtypewriter.com/2026/07/23/shift-work-1957-royal-quiet-de-luxe/) _2026-07-23 · maryech · myoldtypewriter_ The hobby of typewriter repair is generally low stress, low stakes, low danger, but every once in a while, I go a little cowboy, a little Evel Knievel and push things past comfort. It s funny how fast things can go from Whee—this is fun to Uh-oh . Several days a week, I keep an eye (more \[ \] ## [Halving](https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/comments/1v34a8k/halving/) _2026-07-22 · /u/TY\_M9 · Ethereum Classic_ Anyone else bullish about the $ETC halving happening in less than 14 hours? submitted by /u/TY\_M9 \[link\] \[comments\] ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/07/20/oxford-pedaflex-a-z-1-25-gray-pressboard-1-5-cut-tab-file-guides-letter-sized/) _2026-07-20 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ I saw these while browsing through a thrift store and correctly clocked them as thick tabbed dividers though the person who rang them up for $1.50 thought they were folders because of their heft. I ve been wanting some for use with 8.5 x 11 index cards, but thought that most major stationers had quit manufacturing Continue reading ## [10 years ago today, ETH forked away from the original chain to undo the DAO hack. The chain that refused is Ethereum Classic.](https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/comments/1v1fd77/10_years_ago_today_eth_forked_away_from_the/) _2026-07-20 · /u/gitr0n1n · Ethereum Classic_ On July 20, 2016, at block 1,920,000, Ethereum Foundation hard forked to reverse the DAO hack — rewriting the ledger to claw back the ~3.6M ETH drained from the DAO contract. That new, rewritten chain is what everyone now calls Ethereum (ETH). Ethereum (ETH) is a fork of Ethereum Classic (ETC) But not everyone followed. A group of miners, users, and developers kept running the original chain — the… ## [It could have been much, much worse](https://olympiatime.com/2026/07/18/it-could-have-been-much-much-worse/) _2026-07-18 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ A few weeks back I wrote about a version of Olympia and Thurston County that kept its streetcars, tied them into regional rail, and grew up into something closer to a Pacific Northwest urbanist s dream. Fun as a distraction, that essay gave me a chance to chase some historical what-ifs toward the best possible outcome. \[ \] ## [The Horta: 1963 Olympia SM7](https://myoldtypewriter.com/2026/07/15/the-horta-1963-olympia-sm7/) _2026-07-15 · maryech · myoldtypewriter_ I recently worked on a 1963 Olympia SM7, one with an affliction common in Olympias of this vintage: gummed-up mechanics due to sticky blobs of orange-ish brown goo. These orange blobs brought to mind one of my very most favorite Star Trek episodes, The Devil in the Dark from 1967. In it, the USS Enterprise \[ \] ## [Is the Ethereum Classic Bottom Finally In?](https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/comments/1uvlfaf/is_the_ethereum_classic_bottom_finally_in/) _2026-07-13 · /u/CryptoForecast1 · Ethereum Classic_ I did an exhaustive structural assessment of Ethereum Classic (ETC) today using our upgraded terminal metrics over at Crypto Weeklies. As the broader cryptocurrency index grinds through a volatile cycle bottoming phase, ETC has executed a complete purge of its downside risk premium, compressing its raw mathematical risk metrics into our absolute highest conviction long-term spot accumulation… ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/920oySqsMWso) _2026-07-13 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [Annexing the Future](https://olympiatime.com/2026/07/11/annexing-the-future/) _2026-07-11 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ For the first time in over fifty years, more people in Thurston County live inside a city than outside one. It could be an urbanist success story, zoning reform finally winning out, transit investment tipping the scale toward density. It isn t. The real story s older, weirder, and a lot less democratic. Once you see how \[ \] ## [„Setzt sich der Hyperloop durch, werden Hamburg und Berlin gemeinsamer Metropolraum“](https://www.mopo.de/podcast/wie-ist-die-lage/setzt-sich-der-hyperloop-durch-werden-hamburg-und-berlin-gemeinsamer-metropolraum/4875937) _2026-07-10 · Podcast_ Hamburgs Innensenator Andy Grote stellt sich im Podcast den Fragen von Lars Meier. Ein Thema: Mobilitätskonzepte der Zukunft. ## [Olympia Community Solar Celebrates Multiple State Awards Supporting Clean Energy and Resilience Projects](https://olysol.org/olympia-community-solar-celebrates-multiple-state-awards-supporting-clean-energy-and-resilience-projects/) _2026-07-10 · Mason Rolph · Olympia Community Solar_ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Olympia Community Solar Celebrates Multiple State Awards Supporting Clean Energy and Resilience Projects Olympia WA — Olympia Community Solar, an Olympia-based nonprofit, supported partners across the state ... Read more ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/07/08/ncr-paper-for-personal-stationery/) _2026-07-09 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ I ve been thinking about typewriter stationery and carbon copies lately, as has our friend Joe Van Cleave. Has anyone used or had NCR paper stationery made for themselves? I tried some half-sheet stationery at the International Printing Museum not long ago and that seemed like a lovely way to write and keep copies of typewritten Continue reading ## [Freedom, Washington](https://olympiatime.com/2026/07/04/freedom-washington/) _2026-07-04 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ Washington spent thirty-six years as a territory before Congress finally granted statehood in 1889. This in-between space lasted longer than almost any other territory in the country, and that wasn t an accident. Robert Ficken makes the case in Washington Territory: for most of those thirty-six years, the place didn t function as one territory at all. \[ \] ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/07/03/1971-sears-newport-portable-typewriter/) _2026-07-03 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ How could I not pick up his avocado beauty at Acts Thrift for $17.36?! A day s worth of cleaning ought to bring this bad boy up to snuff. I m most shocked at the fantastic design of its case. This is a re-branded Messa typewriter manufactured in Portugal with other known re-badgings as the ABC 3001 Continue reading ## [Jammed: 1958 Remington Quiet-Riter](https://myoldtypewriter.com/2026/07/01/jammed-1958-remington-quiet-riter/) _2026-07-01 · maryech · myoldtypewriter_ I belong to a small group of local enthusiasts who like to tinker with typewriters, and we get together occasionally to share know-how and tools. Last weekend, our group of typewriter mechanics met at a local library for a type-in and light repairing. The public event drew in the young, the old, and the curious. \[ \] ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/30/bookmarklet-for-indiebookclub-biz/) _2026-07-01 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ I really ought to get back to bookmarking things on my own site again ## [Google Gemini's Take On ETC](https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/comments/1uk49xp/google_geminis_take_on_etc/) _2026-06-30 · /u/GeocitiesFossil · Ethereum Classic_ The "High-Value Settlement" Economic Model The most honest answer to how ETC scales without Layer 2 is that it doesn't try to handle cheap, high-volume retail traffic. ETC does not want to host high-frequency gaming, micro-transaction social media apps, or thousands of speculative meme coins. Because its throughput is limited, its long-term scaling strategy is economic, not technical: The… ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/29/how-to-effect-a-proper-exclamation-point-on-a-typewriter/) _2026-06-29 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VWkgpZtPpE8G) _2026-06-29 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Clack! Analog Attitude for the Digital Age – Vol. 1 – Summer 2026](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/28/clack-analog-attitude-for-the-digital-age-vol-1-summer-2026/) _2026-06-28 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ Yesterday at the QWERTY Typewriter Festival in Carson, CA, Bryan Mahoney of The Typin Pint released Issue 01 of his new zine Clack! I ve just finished reading it this morning (from cover to cover, though I admit I haven t finished the crossword yet) and it is truly fantastic! There s so much to love inside its Continue reading Clack! Analog Attitude for the Digital Age Vol. 1 Summer 2026 ## [Ethereum Classic's Olympia Upgrade — June 2026 Development Checkpoint](https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/comments/1uh92zc/ethereum_classics_olympia_upgrade_june_2026/) _2026-06-27 · /u/gitr0n1n · Ethereum Classic_ Olympia Upgrade — June 2026 Development Checkpoint Multi-client stability continued through June 2026 LTS codebases. All four Olympia execution clients are stable, peered, and advertising Olympia as the next hardfork on the wire — with Nethermind joining this month as a fourth independent client. 🟢 Fukuii v0.8.x — Primary. Multi-EVM architecture — dual Ethereum Classic (PoW) and Ethereum (PoS)… ## [Le Morte d’Lacey](https://olympiatime.com/2026/06/27/le-morte-dlacey/) _2026-06-27 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ Last week, when I wrote about the sale of the South Sound Center by Bob Blume s family to a real estate developer quietly closed a chapter for a region whose very geography Blume had shaped through his mid-century ambitions. He s often called the Father of Lacey, and the title fits: he was the son of \[ \] ## [Mod Bod, Old Bones: Underwood Master](https://myoldtypewriter.com/2026/06/26/mod-bod-old-bones-underwood-master/) _2026-06-26 · maryech · myoldtypewriter_ I have great affection for old Underwood standards. They didn t change much over their long, long years of production because they just worked. And they continue to work 80, 100, 120 years later. Opening up an Underwood and seeing their old-fashioned guts is reassuring to this hobbyist. It s like seeing a familiar face at a \[ \] ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/22/etcetera-magazine-spring-2026/) _2026-06-23 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ The Spring issue of Etcetera: Journal of the Typewriter Collectors Association arrived in the mail today! Just in time to celebrate National Typewriter Day tomorrow on June 23, 2026. ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/20/early-1900s-wooden-woodstock-standard-typewriter-shipping-crate/) _2026-06-20 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ I acquired this Woodstock Typewriter crate earlier this month to pair with my 1938 Woodstock No. 5 standard typewriter. Usually it s only portable typewriters that come with cases. But often unseen and unsaved are the cases that came with the larger standard typewriters. These are usually unseen because they were heavy wooden crates that standard Continue reading ## [Rabbit Hole: R. C. Allen VisOmatic A](https://myoldtypewriter.com/2026/06/20/rabbit-hole-r-c-allen-visomatic-a/) _2026-06-20 · maryech · myoldtypewriter_ Every once in a while, I stumble across a type of typewriter that I haven t met before in person. I had never encountered an R. C. Allen until recently when I started working on a damaged 1962 R. C. Allen VisOmatic A. Everything about the machine is next-level educational. Unfamiliar typewriter brands force me to \[ \] ## [Bob Blume, Olympia and the New State](https://olympiatime.com/2026/06/20/bob-blume-olympia-and-the-new-state/) _2026-06-20 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ When Bob Blume wanted to build a shopping center on rural land east of Olympia, he knew he d have to give something away. The interstate had already cut through from Olympia up to Tacoma, and the era of car-based, off-the-cloverleaf retail was here. There was no city off the Sleater-Kinney exit to support a large-scale \[ \] ## [Type-in at Typewriter Muse on June 13, 2026](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/16/typewriter-muse-2026-06-13-1/) _2026-06-16 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/16/schreibmaschinen/) _2026-06-16 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ Tonight, I noticed you can t spell typewriter in German without IBM: SchreIBMaschinen. Surely that ran across someone s mind before in an advertising campaign, right? ## [Dead Space Problem (a poem)](https://olympiatime.com/2026/06/13/dead-space-problem-a-poem/) _2026-06-13 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ I had a busy week this week, so I am going to do something different. I am going to give you a poem I wrote that will be part of a collection I release at the end of the year. Speaking of which, you can buy my collection from last year for $5. Dead Space \[ \] ## [„Ich habe großen Respekt vor Menschen, die selbst etwas aufbauen und Verantwortung übernehmen“](https://www.mopo.de/podcast/wie-ist-die-lage/ich-habe-grossen-respekt-vor-menschen-die-selbst-etwas-aufbauen-und-verantwortung-uebernehmen/4825414) _2026-06-12 · Podcast_ Hamburgs Verkehrssenator stellt sich im Podcast den Fragen von Lars Meier. Ein Thema: Das gescheiterte Olympia-Referendum. ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/12/55835846/) _2026-06-12 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/11/im-gonna-type-every-word-i-know/) _2026-06-12 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ ## [Jose Siri gets Shohei Ohtani out while using an Index Card in an MLB Baseball Game](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/11/jose-siri-gets-shohei-ohtani-out-while-using-an-index-card-in-an-mlb-baseball-game/) _2026-06-11 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ Shohei Ohtani, a designated hitter and pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, is one of the biggest superstars in baseball right now. If you re Jose Siri on the Los Angeles Angels, you know that to get Ohtani out, you re going to need some serious notes on an index card to score the out. The problem Continue reading Jose Siri gets Shohei Ohtani out while using an Index Card in an MLB Baseball Game ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/10/a-typewriter-festival-at-international-printing-museum-2026/) _2026-06-10 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ Last year s event was fantastic, so I m looking forward to all the things on tap, tap, tap for this year. Come and celebrate National Typewriter Day in Southern California. ## [If Olympia Had Rails](https://olympiatime.com/2026/06/06/if-olympia-had-rails/) _2026-06-06 · Emmett O'Connell · Olympia Time_ There s a version of Olympia where you step off the commuter train at 7th Avenue and walk up into daylight at what was an old Greyhound station. You re already downtown. You wait four minutes for a streetcar, and then 20 minutes later, you re home. That city was closer to real than you d think. What killed \[ \] ## [„Über Inklusion wurde nach dem Referendum kaum noch darüber gesprochen“](https://www.mopo.de/podcast/wie-ist-die-lage/ueber-inklusion-wurde-nach-dem-referendum-kaum-noch-darueber-gesprochen/3954241) _2026-06-05 · Podcast_ ## [(untitled)](https://boffosocko.com/2026/06/04/paul-varjaks-gift-at-tiffanys/) _2026-06-04 · Chris Aldrich · Chris Aldrich_ ## [I built a wallet-to-wallet encrypted mail dApp on Ethereum Classic - powered by Proof-of-Work ZEUS & ETC \[Video Demo\]](https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/comments/1tvq51c/i_built_a_wallettowallet_encrypted_mail_dapp_on/) _2026-06-03 · /u/UnluckyAdministrator · Ethereum Classic_ I've been building a project called Zeus Mail , a wallet-to-wallet communication application deployed on Ethereum Classic. The idea is simple: Instead of creating accounts, usernames, passwords, or relying on centralized mail servers, users communicate directly between blockchain wallets. Every message: -Is encrypted client-side using AES-256 -Uses SHA-256 key derivation -Is transmitted using ZEUS…