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Comment by MattSayar | Hacker News Reader

Hey Cliff, just curious: how were you made aware that this post on HN is trending?

Hi Matt,

   All of a sudden, I got three or four Klein bottle orders.  That's a lot for an hour!  One of the orders (thank you Bryan in Johnstown) mentioned Hacker News.  And, well, here I am.

> That's a lot for an hour!

If you still handcraft each personally, that's keine kleine Klein problem.

He hasn't for quite a while afaik, way too time intensive to build by hand so he (at least last I saw 10 years ago) had a big batch made by a glass blowing company.

Yep, I no longer make regular Klein bottles. I'm a so-so glassblower. (Indeed, most glass workers would consider me a good physicist. Physicists would say that I'm a good computer jock. Computer people think that I know a lot about math. Mathematicians feel that I'm a good glassblower.

Keep 'em all guessing.

Someone in there thinks you're an excellent fork lift roboticist as well

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