<story><title>A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing</title><url>https://kleinbottle.com/#AMAZON%20BRAND%20HIJACKING</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CliffStoll</author><text>Guess I&amp;#x27;d better say a few things.&lt;p&gt;First, I deeply appreciate that so many on Hacker News have come out for this.  Enough to awaken me from a sound sleep on a Tuesday evening!&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really care that much about selling Klein bottles over Amazon - it&amp;#x27;s mainly to reach parents over the holidays.  But I do wish that Amazon would do something about this kind of thing.&lt;p&gt;Finally, I&amp;quot;m very low on stocks of glass Klein bottles. It&amp;#x27;s weird for me to ask my friends not to buy the things I&amp;#x27;ve worked so hard to make, but I guess I&amp;#x27;d better.  I hope to have more manifolds in mid to late summer.&lt;p&gt;Warm wishes all around,&lt;p&gt;-Cliff (way late on a cloudy Tuesday evening in Oakland)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CliffStoll</author><text>My reciprocal appreciation to Fury, Atlanta&amp;#x2F;n, and Meester (and my many other friends on Hacker News).&lt;p&gt;I deeply appreciate the kindness and support of the hacker community - sends me back thirty five years to when I was fooling with a Unix workstation and stumbled on a small accounting error.  Back then, I was surprised by the outpouring of help, suggestions, and collaboration from other computer folk.&lt;p&gt;At this moment, I again thank this community -- across decades and across the globe, I&amp;#x27;m heartened and happy to be one of the gang.&lt;p&gt;Warm wishes all around,&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;       -Cliff&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing</title><url>https://kleinbottle.com/#AMAZON%20BRAND%20HIJACKING</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CliffStoll</author><text>Guess I&amp;#x27;d better say a few things.&lt;p&gt;First, I deeply appreciate that so many on Hacker News have come out for this.  Enough to awaken me from a sound sleep on a Tuesday evening!&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really care that much about selling Klein bottles over Amazon - it&amp;#x27;s mainly to reach parents over the holidays.  But I do wish that Amazon would do something about this kind of thing.&lt;p&gt;Finally, I&amp;quot;m very low on stocks of glass Klein bottles. It&amp;#x27;s weird for me to ask my friends not to buy the things I&amp;#x27;ve worked so hard to make, but I guess I&amp;#x27;d better.  I hope to have more manifolds in mid to late summer.&lt;p&gt;Warm wishes all around,&lt;p&gt;-Cliff (way late on a cloudy Tuesday evening in Oakland)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>furyg3</author><text>Hey Cliff, I just have to say thanks.  I read the Cuckoo&amp;#x27;s Egg in the early 90s and while I was already interested in computers, the idea that there were &amp;quot;networks&amp;quot; of them out there... well... it blew my mind.&lt;p&gt;I immediately went to my school librarian and said I wanted to try to connect computers together, or try to dial-up to library information services, etc.  We started learning together.&lt;p&gt;You were a huge inspiration, thanks.</text></comment>