So our industry made national news this week when the
“Ledge” in Chicago had a busted piece of glass.
This now famous all glass overlook suffered a breakage on its
sacrificial layer and to us glass people its no big deal, but to the worldwide
media, it was the opportunity for hysteria.
Usually the media only pays attention to us during ratings months when
they do the classic (and overdone) investigative report on mysterious glass
breakages in your shower and patio table glass.
So this gave them something new to bring to the table and allow the
mis-education to fester. After a couple
of days, the folks writing the stories finally hit upon real experts to explain
no one was in danger and so on, but by then its too late. Maybe one of these days we’ll get proactive
stories on things like our energy efficient glass, dynamics, hurricane, safety,
and fire rated glazings. You know
products that make a REAL difference… I
can dream can’t I?
Elsewhere…
-- Thanks to the always classy James Wright of Glass Coatings and
Concepts for some of the heads up on the above adventure. Always great to hear from you my friend!
-- The neatest story in a long time may be the one from Western
Window Systems where one of their employees got a company logo tattoo. Loyalty is tough anywhere in this world, so
seeing someone care enough about the company he works for to make it permanent
is pretty cool thing.
-- Another industry retirement this past week… Phil Blizzard of
YKK AP is hanging them up. Phil spent
more than 30 years in the industry and my interactions with him were always
memorable. Simply, Phil is just a good
guy… enjoy your new life and catch lots of fish….
-- A giant bear taking a nap on a utility pole… this story issurely clickable because it’s not something you see every day!
-- Good luck this week to the folks in Canada at the Glass
Connections Conference. From all
indications, this show is primed to be fantastic, and I still remain bummed I’m
unable to attend. Once again though it
continues that hot trend of trade shows and their effectiveness.
-- On that note… registration is now open for GlassBuild
America. I’m very excited about this year-
last week I noted the phenomenal new education set up, and this week the show
is now open for business. With the floor
loading up with innovative exhibitors from all over the world- it’s going to be
epic!
-- Last this week… it’s now June… soon we will be half way
through this year… it’s flying by for me.
Maybe because we had no spring…
Though I am thrilled to say I have not yet had to turn on my air
conditioning. As someone who prefers to
be cold than hot (theory being I can always add layers, love sweatshirts etc.)
I usually jump to get the AC going. Now
that I probably jinxed myself, it will be 90 here and when I do click the cold
air on, it probably won’t work!!!
LINKS of the WEEK
-- A depressing look inside a child’s classroom. Our current education model is so outdated,
it’s sad.
-- While this is a great story, the current hacking landscape
is frightening to me.
VIDEO of the WEEK
Here’s the April edition of the best news bloopers… wanted
to post May’s but amazingly it was filled with words that are not safe for
work…
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