Noah Graff
Three days and counting…….
Eight days of IMTS. Are you kidding? This is an idea from yesteryear. If you compressed IMTS to three days, everybody would come for those three days. Comdex, the National [...]
“Show Daily”: IMTS Dumbs Itself Down
Upon entering the main Hall at IMTS you are immediately invited to take the “Show Daily” pamphlet by an attractive young woman in a tight blouse and spiked heels. For [...]
IMTS Web Grief
The great rip off of IMTS is the $1200 that McCormick Place charges to run an Internet connection to an exhibitor’s booth. Such a charge is absurd on its face, [...]
Pumped For IMTS
One week until IMTS and I’m pumped. For me this is a show, a spectacle a conversation, an old home week and a roving seminar in machinery, tooling and software. [...]
Beautiful, Soiled Mops
My friend Stanley lives for laundry. He is a young entrepreneur who brings his intellect and creativity every day and night to his sliver of a laundromat in a strip [...]
eBay– Lookin for Love in all the Wrong Places
Welcome everybody to swarfblog. This is my historic first entry. eBay has lost its love in the merchant community, and it is looking to find it in all the wrong [...]
How It Works – Setting a Shave Tool
Today’s Machining World Archive: May 2006, Vol. 2, Issue 05 Shave and a Hair Cut Two Tenths No matter how new or state-of-the-art your screw machine is, sometimes the finish [...]
Your Ride: Camel Driving
In July, my friend Justin and I traveled to the Sahara desert in Southern Morocco. We camped out in the wilderness twice, the first time in Zagora, the second time [...]