Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee
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Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee
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#2I bought my parents one of the Klein bottles. It is really fun to hold something so useless yet interesting. I also thoroughly enjoyed the service provided. I received a complete inspection report, and the bottle was carefully packed and diagrammed.
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#3He also has an great warehouse setup in his crawl space.
https://hackaday.com/2015/06/24/crawlspace-warehouse-include...
Really impressive guy.
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#4Cliff Stoll is a pretty funny guy. He also wrote a fascinating book about tracking hackers back in the day.
Re: Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee
#5I bought my parents one of the Klein bottles. It is really fun to hold something so useless yet interesting. I also thoroughly enjoyed the service provided. I received a complete inspection report, and the bottle was carefully packed and diagrammed.
A colleague of mine purchased one of the Klein bottle hats, and they received some selfies of Stoll wearing it in his garden right before shipment :-)
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#6Cliff Stoll is a pretty funny guy. He also wrote a fascinating book about tracking hackers back in the day.
Seconded! It gives very good flavor of life working at Berkeley and living there, and also the Internet of the day: https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espiona...
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#7Cliff 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
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#8Cliff Stoll has appeared on the Numberphile YouTube channel dozens of times, and they're all informative and hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JX...
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#9This reminds me of the old Lindsay Publications reprint of Procedures in Experimental Physics from 1938.
https://gingerybookstore.com/product143.html
I believe it's only available used at this point, but:
"Chapters include: laboratory glass blowing, laboratory optical work, technique of high vacuum, coating of surfaces by evaporation and sputtering, the use of fused silica, electrometers and electroscopes, Geiger counters, vacuum thermopiles and the measurement of radiant energy, optics, photoelectric cells and amplifiers, photography in the lab, heat and high temperature, notes on the materials of research, notes on the construction and design of instruments and apparatus, and molding and casting."
Re: Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee
#10Cliff Stoll is a pretty funny guy. He also wrote a fascinating book about tracking hackers back in the day.
There's an episode of Nova about it as well, that's up free online various places. Cliff is such a unique and energetic personality it's really entertaining to watch.