…from the Borg. Starting from the early days of the then truly horrendous America On Line (AOL) who were one of the earliest and perhaps first Internet Services that attempted to totally control my Internet experience. They went as far as secretly modifying my computers’ MS browser and operating system to suit their purposes and billing me with a non cancelable monthly “service” fee. I had to cancel my credit card to stop the charges....
Continue reading...Freedom without Rules?
I earned my place on the Internet as one of the earliest pioneers. I didn’t invent it or anything so preposterous as one political idiot claimed, but I was there as a user in the early days. So I knew it when it was a free and honorable place for communication by simple text messaging and I and have watched it mature into the backbone of the socialistic marketing beast it is today. So be...
Continue reading...No FUN, Breaking the Rules?
I broke my own business rule and decided to invest time and money into “me too” products in my The Hobbyist Machine Store. A “me too” product is a non proprietary item purchased at dealer discount and then offered for sale near the retail “street” price which is always less than the factory price. The problem is I am just one of many other “dealers”, including the factory that sells the exact same product. So...
Continue reading...Hot Serving Cart
I just posted a report about this cart over in The Hobbyist Workshop website. It is going to become a useful tool when I begin casting non ferrous metals using the lost wax process I and my daughter took a course last fall to discover how wax carving and lost wax casting is done. I will soon be doing it here in my shop. I will have a vacuum casting table setting on the hard...
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