{"id":719,"date":"2018-09-25T04:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T08:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:45:48","slug":"la-bound-and-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"LA Bound and Excited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will be attending the 2018 Deming Conference in Manhattan Beach, Ca, October 4-7. This years conference is titled &#8220;Why Deming, Why Now?&#8221;. This will be a wonderful time of reunions for me as there will be 8-10 long-time Deming fanatics there I have not seen in 7 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of the Red Bead Game have been steady with 5 going to an engineering firm in Thailand, a third game shipped to the Australian government, a game sent to the makers of the Patriot Missile and an inquiry from Tyson Farms. I keep a stock of 20-30 games but that can be depleted very quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/MDX-40.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-721\" src=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/MDX-40-150x90.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have just purchased a Roland MDX-40, 4 axis Benchtop CnC machine.<br \/>\nAfter Advance Machine of Clearwater, Fl creates all the tooling needed, we<br \/>\nwill be able to make game paddles at\u00a0 the touch of a button. Cool. This will<br \/>\ngreatly help us keep ahead of incoming orders. The machine listed for more<br \/>\nthan $14,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be attending the 2018 Deming Conference in Manhattan Beach, Ca, October 4-7. This years conference is titled &#8220;Why Deming, Why Now?&#8221;. This will be a wonderful time of reunions for me as there will be 8-10 long-time Deming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=719\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}