Archive for January 23rd, 2006
Curta
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Do you know what a Curta is? It’s a mechanical calculator designed by Curt Herzstark while he was held in the Buchenwald concentration camp during WWII. He survived and afterwards he flushed out his design and started manufacturing these small computing devices. The calculator adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, squares, cubes, and more [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2006 under out of doughnuts ramblings, toys.
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Truck is repaired
My truck is back and it’s been restored. A friend asked if it was like a brand new truck, well… not really. It’s different, but it would never be mistaken for new. I’ve done too much to the truck for it ever to appear new.
It does appear foreign though, I don’t remember the last time [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2006 under out of doughnuts ramblings.
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