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Chronic Pain Tip #20: Often a nurse is able to provide very practical tips for managing your quality of life. Nurses also make an excellent sounding board. They may help you evaluate if your goals are reasonable. If you are willing to listen and trust they may offer tips to make your life easier.... rons-home.net/en/living-life-l #soundingboard #feedback #input #nurse #goal [Next Tip Mar 24 2025]

rons-home.netTip #20 :: Living With Chronic Pain :: Tips :: Living Life Lab :: Ron's HomeRead our tip of the week for living with chronic pain.

So yesterday, I was giving a lecture on Lin Yutang and his MingKwai typewriter and a student informed me that, apparently, it had been found.

Let me elaborate: The MingKwai was a revolutionary machine that could be used to type a theoretical maximum of 90 000 Chinese characters, almost twice as much as in Imperial China's largest dictionary. The legacy of its "Magic Eye" viewfinder system and Lin's statistical analysis can still be seen in how Chinese is written on computers today. According to Thomas S. Mullaney, it marked the birth of "input". Its only prototype was believed to have been lost, possibly thrown away or disassembled for parts.

And it was found. In a basement in New York. This January.

*high-pitched noises*

Original Facebook post that is either reporting the find or a very elaborate scam: facebook.com/groups/1277686226

Blog post by Richard Polt with pictures: writingball.blogspot.com/2025/

What’s My Typewriter Worth? | Found this while clearing out my wife’s grandfathers basement , it’s all in Chinese  | Facebook
www.facebook.comWhat’s My Typewriter Worth? | Found this while clearing out my wife’s grandfathers basement , it’s all in Chinese | FacebookFound this while clearing out my wife’s grandfathers basement , it’s all in Chinese . From my internet search it looks to be a Chinese made MingKwai. I just can’t find any ever sold here in the...