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Warm greetings to m'friends at HackerNews from an astronomer who's blushing from this attention. Like most old school hackers, I try to explore ideas that keep

Warm greetings to m'friends at HackerNews from an astronomer who's blushing from this attention. Like most old school hackers, I try to explore ideas that keep me awake ... the "I wonder if I can make an x" where x may be a topological manifold, an arduino line-follower, a garden leaf moulded into ceramic, a Penrose tile pattern, an LTE geolocation algorithm... And, as most of you realize, this Klein bottle microbusiness is mainly to have fun and stay busy -- a chance to fool with everything from math to glassblowing. Best part, of course, is meeting math folk, students, computer jocks, and random visitors. To each, I hope, I leave the strong encouragement to keep exploring! My warm wishes to each of you, on a sunny Sunday morning in Oakland, California! -Cliff (who's typing with dough on his fingers, left from mixing up scones for breakfast)

drivingmenuts 10y ago
I remember the first time I saw the video about your under-floor distribution system and all I could think was: I want that. I have no product to sell or organize, but I still want that. ... perhaps some sort of underfloor cat organizer ...
- rhinoceraptor 10y ago
  The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
wanderr 10y ago
Hi Cliff! I love these klein bottles and have always wanted ask if you'd consider trying to make one that can function as a chemex style coffee maker? Somewhat like the wine bottle but with an opening the right size for a chemex filter would be so cool.
jbpetersen 10y ago
How'd the scones turn out?
hasteur 10y ago
This must also be the same Cliff Stoll of the fameous/infameous Hannover Hacker. So wierd to see the funny interconnections in the real world. "The Cuckoo's Egg" is one of my favorite books and got me on the path of "understanding the problem for all it's layers" instead of correcting a bug.

drivingmenuts 10y ago

I remember the first time I saw the video about your under-floor distribution system and all I could think was: I want that. I have no product to sell or organize, but I still want that. ... perhaps some sort of underfloor cat organizer ...

rhinoceraptor 10y ago
The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

wanderr 10y ago

Hi Cliff! I love these klein bottles and have always wanted ask if you'd consider trying to make one that can function as a chemex style coffee maker? Somewhat like the wine bottle but with an opening the right size for a chemex filter would be so cool.

jbpetersen 10y ago

How'd the scones turn out?

hasteur 10y ago

This must also be the same Cliff Stoll of the fameous/infameous Hannover Hacker. So wierd to see the funny interconnections in the real world. "The Cuckoo's Egg" is one of my favorite books and got me on the path of "understanding the problem for all it's layers" instead of correcting a bug.