[HN Gopher] Acme Klein Bottle's Unconditional Guarantee
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Acme Klein Bottle's Unconditional Guarantee
Author : andrew_eu
Score : 48 points
Date : 2020-09-22 21:40 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.kleinbottle.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.kleinbottle.com)
| sblom wrote:
| Cliff Stoll has appeared on the Numberphile YouTube channel
| dozens of times, and they're all informative and hilarious:
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| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JX...
| Cerium wrote:
| I 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.
| kmill wrote:
| 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 :-)
| phobosanomaly wrote:
| This reminds me of the old Lindsay Publications reprint of
| Procedures in Experimental Physics from 1938.
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| https://gingerybookstore.com/product143.html
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| I believe it's only available used at this point, but:
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| "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."
| ampdepolymerase wrote:
| https://archive.org/details/ProceduresInExperimentalPhysics
| barlo wrote:
| He also has an great warehouse setup in his crawl space.
|
| https://hackaday.com/2015/06/24/crawlspace-warehouse-include...
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| Really impressive guy.
| jimbob45 wrote:
| Can second this. I found this highly worth the watch and I
| think about this weekly.
| nayuki wrote:
| His website is where I first learned the term "dihydrogen
| monoxide". https://www.kleinbottle.com/why_acme.htm
| amanaplanacanal wrote:
| Cliff Stoll is a pretty funny guy. He also wrote a fascinating
| book about tracking hackers back in the day.
| jasonwatkinspdx wrote:
| 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.
| sp332 wrote:
| The episode is called "The KGB, the Computer, and Me". Here's
| one on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hTx9h3Sm29I
| Uhhrrr wrote:
| 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...
| quickthrowman wrote:
| 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
| Daub wrote:
| https://www.kleinbottle.com/cartoons_and_limericks.htm
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| From the limericks page:
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| Three jolly sailors from Blaydon-on-Tyne
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| They went to sea in a bottle by Klein.
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| Since the sea was entirely inside the hull
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| The scenery seen was exceedingly dull.
| F00Fbug wrote:
| I received a Klein bottle as a gift. The box was covered in
| drawings by Cliff and the accompanying paperwork brings me as
| much joy as does my zero-volume container!
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