Noah Graff
The Labor Shortage
The labor shortage of skilled machinists is not a singular phenomenon. Heavy equipment operators who maneuver excavators, dozers, and cranes are also scarce. Power Equipment of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is doing [...]
Can Old-school Steel create a New School dream?
Several issues ago in Today’s Machining World, Robert Strauss wrote an in-depth story about Conserve School and its unusual relationship with steel distributing agent, Central Steel and Wire, of Chicago. [...]
Rube Goldberg is Alive and Well
“Rube Goldberg” is alive and well in Harry Potter’s neighborhood. Three blokes in their mid-twenties, graduates of elite Cambridge University, have developed fantastic mechanical chains of devices, like sliding chess [...]
A Perfect Day
Sometimes I have a day when everything comes together and I have to say, “Thank you, God, for allowing me to experience it.” I had one on May 7th. Noah [...]
How little Spira Shoe Company stole the show from Nike
What do you do if you are an unknown pipsqueak company with a killer idea, going up against a giant with an almost unlimited marketing budget? On April 16th at [...]
Daimler-Chrysler Wants a Divorce. Shocking.
We now have the news that Daimler-Chrysler wants a divorce. Shocking. One more stupid merger falls apart because the people couldn’t get along. The Germans thought Detroit built crappy cars, [...]
Lovie and Tony's Coaching Styles
Tony Dungy, the coach of the Indianapolis Colts, and Lovie Smith, coach of the Chicago Bears, are close personal friends who talk to each other at 5:00 a.m. every Monday [...]
Wiki-Screw Machines
Like most people, I have a love-hate relationship with the Internet. I love Fantasy Baseball. I hate email. I love reading Mark Cuban’s blog. I hate the assault of pornography [...]
Commodity Prices Unraveling
Copper prices are down almost 30 percent from the speculative hedge fund bubble. Brass rod is just beginning to follow with scrap prices down about 10 percent from the peak. [...]
Next: In 50 years, will global warming have had any positive effects on Americans?
By Noah Graff Today’s Machining World Archives January 2007 Volume 03 Issue 01 A consensus of scientists have concluded that the Earth’s mean temperature is warming at an alarming rate, [...]