Heh, I found this site when I was an undergraduate and passed the link on to a senior topologist in the department on a whim; he was delighted, purchased a couple of them, and when I went for a postgrad studentship in the same department a couple of year later, he was on the interviewing committee. So thank you Acme :-)
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#62I've said it in a previous thread, but these are the finest non-orientable manifolds on the market today, and as many posters in this thread point out, Cliff Stoll is an extremely nice man to buy them from.
Aww, thanks, oh Idol o’ Words. I appreciate the opportunity to be of service to our community. I’m astonished by how many hacker folk are also into topology.
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#6312) My website looks old-fashioned because it loads faster this way and (mainly) I'm too lazy to rewrite it. I last updated this page on April 30, 2019 6:16 PM Very based attitude. I wish more people were like him. The website is perfectly functional & readable and doesn't waste any resources.
Thank you Kenji! People sometimes ask to rebuild it, but then I’d have to learn html-5 to support it. I’d rather have fun learning differential geometry or octernions.
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#64Heh, I found this site when I was an undergraduate and passed the link on to a senior topologist in the department on a whim; he was delighted, purchased a couple of them, and when I went for a postgrad studentship in the same department a couple of year later, he was on the interviewing committee. So thank you Acme :-)
Thanks right back to you, JJ! Especially, thanks for helping my kids with tuition. What goes around...
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#65Clifford on TedX https://youtu.be/Gj8IA6xOpSk
Whew - that spoutathon was 10 or 15 years ago. I had put together a 1-hour talk and just before going on stage, I learn that I’ve got 18 minutes. So, I did what I learned in grad school: talk fast and don’t give ‘em a standing target...
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s because the site has been up and unchanged for about (if not over) twenty years :) It warms my heart to know it’s still up and that Dr. Stoll is still at it.
> I last updated this page on April 30, 2019 6:16 PM
>> I last updated my brain on June 25224, 1950 03:15 AM
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#67I finally broke down and ordered one, and an hour later I got an email from Cliff Stoll with a long series of photographs of him packaging my Klein Bottle – including the packaging and invoicing, with my name on it.
Wow that is fantastic. I can't wait for my break down, I mean Klein Bottle.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish I lived in the area, I would love to meet Mr. Stoll. I only recently watched The Cuckoo's Egg, which is from the 1980s and which he is the star of. A tremendously interesting story for anyone unfamiliar with it who uses this site I am sure, he was basically the first person to really track international hackers and did so at a time when law enforcement didn't even know if any laws had been broken despite milit…
It's funny, I've read "The Cuckoo's Egg," Clifford Stoll's book, probably twenty times now. I had no idea there was a documentary about it (The KGB, The Computer, and Me - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308449/ ) until just now so thanks.
Me too, can't wait to watch it.
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#69Yikes! So HN is the cause of my Friday evening being so busy... Smiles all around, -Cliff
Oddly enough, my partner, who is a designer, asked me 4 days ago "what's that weird moebius wine flask thing you showed me ages ago?" I thought for a while and responded "klein bottle?" and sent her the link to your store.
Obviously, the popularity and desirability of Klein bottles follow a curve shaped like a Klein bottle. We're currently in the main volume stage, and will loop back through over the next few years.
You should graph your previous sales history. It will almost certainly be indicative of future sales ;-)
P.S. We really do love you Cliff, thanks for being you!
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#70Yikes! So HN is the cause of my Friday evening being so busy... Smiles all around, -Cliff
Hey, Cliff!
I very rarely comment, but I just wanted to say thanks for being awesome!
After showing my mum the video you did with Numberphile, she bought me one of your Klein bottles for my birthday. It's still one of my favourite nonorientable surfaces. ;)
All the best,
James