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366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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A New Year's Resolution for Typewriters

A Nobel Prize winning physicist got obsessed about using lasers to erase typos off typewriters. He was able to go to the institution that had the documents, get original materials. In another case, there was some photo he was trying to get and I'm like, well, that guy's dead. But you know, maybe this person who knew him is the estate of his estate.

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