#Instruction Manual

[parakavka]

柴犬・おこげちゃん【Shiba Inu"Okoge"】 on X: "柴犬に絵本の読み聞かせ♪ 何の絵本か知ってる人いますかー？？ https://t.co/tylX71vy6m" / X

[zal-cryptid]

Misfits in Toyland

Play Date, pages 5-6 and Tammy Instructions

[realgrade]

Japanese instruction manual for 'Chaotix' (1995) - SEGA

[deadpresidents]

the job of President was too big for Warren G. Harding and if there was an instruction manual, he couldn't find it.

I don't have anything to add to your totally unsolicited statement (everyone knows I just love being sent random, anonymous opinions) that had literally nothing to do with anything I've written recently.

BUT...believe it or not, there actually kind of IS an instruction manual for the Presidency. Jimmy Carter used to have a copy of this massive book in his office at the Carter Center titled "The Duties of the President of the United States of America".

In his wonderful 2004 book, Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), Bob Greene writes about being shown the book by a Secret Service agent while at the Carter Center:

On a table was a huge hardbound book, and on its cover were the words: The Duties of the President of the United States. [The Secret Service agent] flipped it open. "Try learning that in two months," he said. I suppose I had never thought about it; I suppose it had never occurred to me that there was a manual. Because that is what this book was: an enormous volume filled, in minute detail, with the duties for which the President, as decreed by law, is responsible. Not the vague, all-encompassing responsibilities spoken of in civics books (or the Constitution), but the daily, department-to-department staff-office-by-staff-office tasks over which the President, at least in theory, has oversight. The book was like a combination motorcycle-repair manual/computer guide/university-doctorate-level encyclopedia; it was not bedtime reading or narrative history, it was nuts and bolts. It informed a President -- especially a newly elected President, getting ready to take office -- what was expected of him.

I'm dying to have a copy of that book. I haven't found it being sold anywhere over the years. I'm assuming that it was specifically printed and bound for the President. It looks like books that I have that were published by the Government Printing Office. They all are black hardcover books with gold print for the title, so I'm guessing that they are probably given to Presidents or important staff members in the Executive Office of the President. But I very much would like a copy. Hopefully the fine folks at the Government Printing Office or the National Archives sees this post and thinks that I deserve my own copy.

[lilredmage]

Continuing my love of old instruction manual art and item art, here's some more Link To The Past stuff ~ Fighter's Shield, Red Shield, Mirror Shield <3

[visual-oddities]

Lore of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos inside the game manual

[sluttery-withoutshame]

Ok.

[ub-sessed]

This came in to work today:

My boss guessed '50s or '60s based on the sewing machine (it has a weird flat bobbin and to wind the bobbin you put it in the bobbin compartment -- there's no bobbin case -- and then the needle winds the thread around the bobbin?) but based on the cover illustration I'm guessing very late '60s, possibly even early '70s.

Thoughts?

[zoomar]

Imaginary pages from the Owl Cult instruction manual. These pages cover costuming, tools for rituals and the construction of temples. As you can see from the temple in the final picture, the building was eventually decorated with magnified stone recreations of desiccated animals found in owl pellets. The cult believed in silently watching their prey and then swooping in to take them out.

See photos of the Owl Cult

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: Delicious In Dungeon [2024]

[trooperst-3v3]

Went to update my blog today and saw a bunch of weird letters on my computer screen. I thought someone had sent me a message in Shyriiwook (Very few vowels and lots of "R"s).

I thought I'd translated about half of it when Katie walked by and casually informed me that Millicent had been over to play earlier today and the letters appeared because she'd been sleeping on my keyboard.

Ah. That explains a lot. The "message" wasn't making much sense, anyway.

[thebetterboogerman]

Manual Pages 31-32

[estatesalefinds]

Longview, WA

[wanepillow]

This machine contains the beat from ‘losing my edge’ by LCD sound system. Lovely bit of kit

[blondebrainpowered]

Pet Rock creator Gary Dahl became a millionaire from his rock sales in the 1970s. Each rock came in a special box with a detailed instruction manual.

[videorelaxant6025]

working on a sega saturn-like manual for atlyss and i'm now realizing the dreamcast fits infinitely better

whoops

so you get the version one pictures and i'll probably redo this when i'm not tired as hell

but yeah i want to redo it to be more faithful to manuals of that time and move it from the saturn to the dreamcast