In which the University of Washington renews my faith in bookstores

This is all sharpeners. I mean, a whole *aisle* of just sharpeners. I didn't even capture the whole aisle in the photo.

Same, but erasers. Amazing.

Favorite typewriter presents

I have a couple of friends who are artists, and on top of that very generous people who always make amazing handmade birthday gifts for friends and relatives. Today we had a thing for my birthday, for which they gave me the following card and present.

My crappy cell phone camera doesn't really demonstrate properly that this is 3-D and even the keys are punched out and angled upward:



This is about three feet wide and quite impressive to behold, each of the keys is actually a frame with a removable glass window for putting pictures, etc., although I'm likely to keep it just the way it is. They cut all the pieces by hand:



Wowza. What typewriter gifts have y'all gotten from people? For example, I know Duffy Moon's wife made him a typewriter cake once which I've just tried in vain to find online somewhere...

RIP, Borders books