As early as 1921, he had written to his father, "I am going to be at a frightful disadvantage for some years, sheepish and put-upon, but when I am discovered things will be vulgarly resplendent; I vend a cake Americans will hug".
If I'm going to vend, I may as well make money".
When as a ninth-grader I encountered the vending machines at CdM, I went crazy.
I was like, "I'm buying vending machines and putting them in there".
In my case, when I had a microbusiness, I would fill vending machines, make sandwiches for our machines, order stock for our warehouse, fix vending machines when they were broken, do our bookkeeping and count the money — in other words, I was the chief cook and bottle washer.
Our strategy was evaluated in four different domains: (i) a vending machine (toy example); (ii) a control system for safety injection in a nuclear power plant (publicly available), (iii) one example provided by our industrial partner Embraer; and (iv) the turn indicator system of Mercedes vehicles (publicly available).
"If I only did business where these hot dog guys said I could do business," said Lev Ekster, owner of the new CupcakeStop truck, "I would be vending in New Jersey".
"Is it a vending machine with needles in it?" he asked.
When my sons were toddlers, I decreed that vending machines were off limits, and they soon stopped asking for whatever was in them.
"I supply shops, vending machines and discount stores," Mr. Nagasaki said in a telephone interview, adding that no one from Coca-Cola in Japan had ever objected.
It was an odd choice to take my first semester of college: I had never taken a seminar-style course before and my knowledge of numismatics (the study of coins, currency, and medals) was limited to the quarters I used at vending machines.
