Hawaii among the least-innovative states

[TomK]

"glad i used a treble hook under this super worm moon"

So you admit to trolling?

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

glad i used a treble hook under this super worm moon

Yes!
Because innovations like “a treble hook” are what will bring back manufacturing jobs for graduating seniors in East Hawaii. Why provide people with information directing them to shops and stores where they can purchase affordable, locally made furniture? Which then might encourage residents to buy products from local woodworkers? The DOE might even take notice, and bring back shop classes in high schools, because now, graduating students could find a job in that vocation right here on the island.

Instead, the person bemoaning the loss of shop classes in high schools uses his valuable Executive Time to tell readers they’re “Maybe you too cheap to look around ?”

That certainly will improve the situation! Why share valuable information for a solution to the problem, when instead you can just say stuff?

[TomK]

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Originally posted by TomK in reponse to RWR

"glad i used a treble hook under this super worm moon"

So you admit to trolling?

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<sound of crickets>

[Guest]

indubitably.

Here is something positive u can do with your spar time.

http://hitx.co/#home

Hawaii Tech Exchange would love to hear from.

[PaulW]

You could go in your spar time and tell them that woodwork is the future. Those wooden bridges won't build themselves and trolls have to live somewhere too.

[randomq]

Is Hawaii Tech Exchange still alive? Last tweet was from Feb 2017...

Looks like a nice space though, I'm gonna try to contact them.

[TomK]

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Originally posted by RWR

indubitably.

Here is something positive u can do with your spar time.

http://hitx.co/#home

Hawaii Tech Exchange would love to hear from.

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I don't have a lot of "spar" time and have no idea what "hear from" means, but if you are recommending this organization, then please tell us what they do and how you're involved. Thanks.

[terracore]

"Woodshop? That's all about dangerous sharp instruments that might kill a child"

The funny thing is, my High School was constructed with an indoor rifle range in the basement. It also had a smoking area for students.

They were different times.

Regarding woodworking, I was picking something up at Aloha Air Cargo and there was a guy there crating up a huge wooden table. I asked him if he made it, and he replied yes, it was mango wood and he explained how it had no hardware and was held together by custom joints and gravity. He knew a guy who worked for the county and would get phone calls when they were taking down big trees so he could harvest the wood. He sells mainly to resorts but this particular table was going to some rich lady on Kauai. I asked, would he mind telling me how much a table like that went for? He told me that she wanted a big mango table and asked him how much it would cost, so he came up with a figure he thought was so large that he wouldn't have to make the table, $30,000.00, and her next question was when could she get it? I wonder if she would have paid $75,000.00 ?

[Guest]

lol terracore,
techique is "say the number" not hard right ? ... it works.

Hollywood A listers to Premier Napa Valley "cave" dwellers.

i'm happy for him and i bet he got more business from it.