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Pretention Of Knowledge
PRETENTION: “The action of pretending.” KNOWLEDGE: “The fact of knowing a thing, state, etc.” Source: Oxford Unabridged Dictionary May 10 and 11 2007 the armed services had an Advanced Planning Brief for Industry. The specific purpose was to present to companies that attended the meeting capable of producing clothing of all sorts and sleeping bags the needs of [...]
Lamilite Neutralizes Water
We all know or should know that water touching the human body draws heat from the body. Therefore, it is very important to help rid the body of the water as quickly as possible. As I have written many times, wearing my fishnet long underwear is the best first layer. But where does the water [...]
Simply the Best
PROOF: That which makes good or proves a statement; evidence sufficient (or contributing) to establish a factor produce belief.Source: Oxford dictionary.Since 1986 when I first started producing the Wiggy’s brand of sleeping bags my motto has been “Simply the Best” and I believe that my customers have proven beyond doubt that the statement is true. [...]
Wiggy's Sleeping Bags
INTEGRITY: Soundness of moral principle; the character of uncorrupted virtue; uprightness, sincerity.The following discussion is about insulation.When it comes to those in the civilian sector of our society who chose to provide products to our military they disregard their own integrity or they show a lack there of.Why (?) because the civilians for the most [...]
Technology
Technology is an applied science, i.e., it translates the discoveries of theoretical science into practical application to man's life. As such, technology is not the first step in the development of a given body of knowledge, but the last; it is not the most difficult step, but it is the ultimate step, the implicit purpose, [...]
Logic
“Logic has a single law, the Law of Identity, and it various corollaries.” (“Philosophical Detection,” in Philosophy: Who Needs It) “Whatever you choose to consider, be it an object, an attribute or an action, the law of identity remains the same. A leaf cannot be a stone at the same time, it cannot be all [...]
Danger From Within
The U.S. Army has a solicitation out for a new sleep system. The size of the bags is exactly the same as my long wide body size and the temperature rating is the same as mine, +35 for the outer bag known as the Patrol Bag and 0 degrees for the inner bag with a [...]
An Expensive Disposable Sleeping Bag
Can you imagine paying $125.00 to $300.00 for a disposable sleeping bag? In my educated opinion of how sleeping bags are made and the synthetic insulating materials used in them the Mountain Hardwear Company (MH) has done just that, made the most expensive disposable sleeping bag I have ever seen. Several years ago I was engaged [...]
Insulations
I have been involved since 1961 with the sales and manufacture of synthetic fiber for the specific purpose of insulation. I have seen literally all of the synthetics put on the market from 1961 until the present. I have seen some bogus products that have been perpetrated on the buying public, however, I recently [...]
A New Product
During a hunting trip in 1995 I managed to get myself lost. It was an interesting experience to say the least. I was hunting the Fossil Ridge Wilderness area north and east of Gunnison, CO. in early November. On the evening of the forth day out I strayed to far to the north east of [...]