Comments on: Re-heated rant

By: Paul Tarlow

Paul Tarlow — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:01:50 +0000

Sorry – late to the party.

So what about “fused glass” — that term seems conspicuously absent from the conversation.

That is the term used by Boyce (and Dan) in the book titles.

A quick search of Google shows the following number of occurrences of each term within Google’s web indexing:

fused glass 968,000
warm glass 13,300
kiln glass 13,700
kilnformed glass 6,820
kiln-formed glass 31,600

“Fused” meets the requirement of being short. Unlike “warm”, it is generally accurate and it is the most widely used.

Are we trying to fix something that isn’t broken?

- Paul
(who is somewhat schizophrenic on this issue, having a brick and mortar teaching/retail studio called “Helios Kiln Glass Studio” and a website called “www.fusedglass.org”.)

By: glasscentralcanberra

glasscentralcanberra — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:27:29 +0000

…and hey, glad to hear you enjoy the blog. It’s a bit of a labour of love, truth be known.

By: glasscentralcanberra

glasscentralcanberra — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:24:03 +0000

Actually, I think he gave me his!!!

By: lmcgregor

lmcgregor — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:10:54 +0000

Hey, Megan, thanks for dropping in…Love your blog…and am delighted that Klaus got you a shirt.

By: glasscentralcanberra

glasscentralcanberra — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:57:38 +0000

Hey Lani, you’re welcome to the photo!!
And yeah, I know that ‘yelling to an empty room’ feeling – though it’s great therapy I reckon.
I too am enjoying the t-shirt – Klausie gave me one when he got back.