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Archive for December 22nd, 2006

December 22, 2006

Hyperbolic Seafarer Warning

Posted by TFG on 22nd December 2006

They are calling something 3 meters long (that’s 9+ ft for you dumb hick Americans…I checked) “giant.”

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Really GIANT thing from the sea

Little was known until recently about the creature thought to have inspired the myth of the “kraken”, a tentacled monster that was blamed by sailors for sinking ships off Norway in the 18th century.

Those Norwegians must be an excitable bunch. I hope they don’t play golf in Florida, where you routinely have to hit your approach shot standing next to 9 ft gators.

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Cart path, big guy, cart path!

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Economics shonuff be hard

Posted by TFG on 22nd December 2006

Manufacturing is down across the board, and has been dropping for the last 6 months.

Then why in the hell am I looking at 10-16 week delivery times for basic things like 48v power supplies? Unfair anecdotal comparison, fershur, but it’s driving me crazy trying to get a product out the door and I can’t find the piece-parts I need. If I was ordering them in container-ship loads, I could get them, but I ain’t. My mfg is different from the Big Boys, of course. It doesn’t hurt any less, not when your entire future is on the line.

It’s Startuptown, Jake.

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