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"Cliff last updated this page on Sept 5, 2020, while worrying about California's forest fires"
Next step, create bot that pulls headlines and auto-updates timestamps.
> customer service is easy when you run a zero volume business
What a perfect solution to the fake defective / return problem!
This man has just given me half an hour of pure delight. I haven't laughed this much with unadulterated joy since I was a little girl. His enthusiasm and happiness and weltanschauung are contagious!
Once, at the Maker Faire, a guy walked up to me and showed enthusiasm for my exhibit (a solar telescope). He looked familiar, and I recognized him as Cliff Stoll.
https://www.kleinbottle.com/cartoons_and_limericks.htm From the limericks page: Three jolly sailors from Blaydon-on-Tyne They went to sea in a bottle by Klein. Since the sea was entirely inside the hull The scenery seen was exceedingly dull.
That’s not a limerick, though. A limerick has 5 lines, for example: There once was a young lady called Bright Who travelled much faster than light She left one day, In a relative way, And returned on the previous night!
Funny, the Pierson's Puppeteers have a similar warning for their General Products hulls.
> I slightly guarantee your Klein Bottle for THREE MONTHS against any cracks or breakage, whether due to earthquakes, clumsy undergrads, or greasy fingers. Just mail us a fragment and $10, and we will send a replacement. What a perfect solution to the fake defective / return problem!
> send it back piece by piece for more bottles
> repeat with new bottles for infinite bottles
Not a perfect solution haha
This man has just given me half an hour of pure delight. I haven't laughed this much with unadulterated joy since I was a little girl. His enthusiasm and happiness and weltanschauung are contagious!
He is no different in person. Don't miss his warehouse complete with forklift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
Cliff Stoll is a pretty funny guy. He also wrote a fascinating book about tracking hackers back in the day.
A Cuckoo’s Egg! Fantastic book. Cliff stops by here from time to time to comment as well. Here’s a recent comment thread he participated in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830277
> I slightly guarantee your Klein Bottle for THREE MONTHS against any cracks or breakage, whether due to earthquakes, clumsy undergrads, or greasy fingers. Just mail us a fragment and $10, and we will send a replacement. What a perfect solution to the fake defective / return problem!
(Though this particular business seems low volume enough that you can probably easily deal with that problem so long as you don't have to scale it.)