On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:13:54 -0800, Rich Grise
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:11:54 -0800, Rich Grise
Pete C. wrote:
Karl Townsend wrote:

I built ten little SS apple labeling units a few years ago. The
last unit polishing took maybe 20% of the time that unit one did.

When are you going to start laser marking the apples and eliminate all
the little stickers?

Do you mean burn the mark into the apple itself?

We prefer to think of it as "tanning", Richy.

I waxed histrionic in my response to Pete C. just upthread, but in case
nobody wants to bother, in a nutshell, it sounds more like a "brandin'
ahrn." ;-)

Right. It's a high-tech electronic branding iron.


Why "Richy?" My name's "Rich."

George Hamilton joke.

--
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty.
There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and
indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration
of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If
the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling
the differences between true and false, right and wrong,
virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of
mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
--John Adams