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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
He also has an great warehouse setup in his crawl space. https://hackaday.com/2015/06/24/crawlspace-warehouse-include... Really impressive guy.
Can second this. I found this highly worth the watch and I think about this weekly.
Didn't take long before crawling around caused backaches - and thus, the mother of invention visited me in the guise of an idea of a remote controlled forklift.
Cheers to all, -Cliff
Cliff is a funny guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
Um, I suspect that my kids may feel otherwise...
Here's a good one for you about the younger generation: “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
― Socrates
Este post me trajo muy buenos recuerdos.
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I assume you send a fragment and the receipt or something, otherwise you can smash your klein bottle into many fragments and the return policy becomes a bulk discount. (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.)
To my surprise, I haven't found anyone breaking their bottle on purpose. (or on a porpose). One of the nicest things about running this micro-business is that, sooner or later, I'll meet most of the people who own a Klein bottle. The math & physics community is a wonderful place...
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He is no different in person. Don't miss his warehouse complete with forklift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
Well, I think he's different in person...
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The episode is called "The KGB, the Computer, and Me". Here's one on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hTx9h3Sm29I
Oh wow thank you, I’ve looked for this for years. I am pretty sure this story and King’s Quest are the two major reasons I ended up in computer engineering.
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Well, I think he's different in person...
If I say... buy a bottle from you would you autograph it for me? You’ve been elevated to the position of rockstar in my little corner of the world. It is only fitting for an autograph to follow. :)
(at the moment, this Hacker News squib has resulted in a veritable tsunami of Klein bottle orders -- over a dozen -- and I'm getting kinda backlogged. Looks like I'll be working tonight & tomorrow. And it's my turn to wash the dishes tonight...)
I just ordered one of these recently! Last week, I finished reading "The Cuckoo's Egg,"[0] about a computer espionage case in the late 1980s (great book, by the way.) Afterwards, I was looking up the author's information, and found the klein bottle website, and videos with Numberphile. Cliff actually sent photos of the klein bottle I ordered as it was being packaged up for shipping! Lots of humorous tidbits hidden al…
Btw, if you like interesting people with wide-open minds who also sell stuff from their fun and quirky websites, I can share a few others:
http://www.constructingtheuniverse.com/
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Oh wow thank you, I’ve looked for this for years. I am pretty sure this story and King’s Quest are the two major reasons I ended up in computer engineering.
I'm sure it's that way for quite a lot of us that are of a similar age. I have a really distinct memory of watching it as a child. I wasn't really interested in computers beyond the (rudimentary) games we had on ours, but this episode planted a lot of ideas in my head I'm sure.
Thirty plus years later, I think of how young I was back then.
There must be some lesson in this, but I can't find it.