Tied Up Today

This tie shows the keys on a computer terminal keyboard. I do not know why it has some Danish (?) characters. I'm celebrating the 54th a...

Tomorrow (23 June) marks the 153rd anniversary of the patenting of the typewriter ! Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor in Milwaukee, Wis...

Breaking with traditions is a great habit. Today, for the first time in recorded history, I'm re-wearing a tie within a week. When I wor...

YES I AM SHOUTING! TODAY IS "INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY," A PARODY (PAROD-DAY?) THAT WAS CREATED IN 2000 TO POKE FUN AT PEOPLE WH...

It's National Punctuation Day ! Why is punctuation important to you? If you need help, I'll recommend the book "Eats, Shoots An...

On this date in 1829, William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter. ...

On 23 July 1829, William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter. ...

On this date in 1829, William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter. ...

Is there any doubt that today is International Skeptics' Day? This is (perhaps) the only tie in my collection that features a question m...

Giambattista Bodoni was born in Italy (of course) on this date in 1740. He was a printer and publisher in Parma, gaining fame through his de...

It's " National Punctuation Day "; how are you celebrating?

On this date in 1829, William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Michigan, received a patent for his typographer , a forerunner of the typewriter....

My tie celebrates tomorrow's designation as World Press Freedom Day . On Saturday we get both International Respect for Chickens Day and...

It's National Punctuation Day! My tie shows a semicolon, a question mark and several brackets, but can you also find periods? This may b...

Anniversary of the patent for the very first "typing machine," called the typographer, awarded on this date in 1829 to William Aus...

I regret the fuzziness of that image. To get the Bodoni font displayed, I created the text through Microsoft Word and then used Macintosh Pr...

Back from the mission trip, back to the ordinary keyboard.

. . . So, it's National Punctuation Day! Is it actually a "holiday" just because someone got it listed on Web sites? See for ...

The United Nations celebrates World Press Freedom Day on May 3. Our family journalist Ben has been quite a champion of press freedom this ye...

A new tie, capitalizing on a computer keyboard . . .