david strasser

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.

—Arthur Hugh Clough

Monday, May 20, 2013

A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

—Mark Twain

Friday, May 17, 2013

Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during human life out of which the first one suffers the worst beating.

—André Breton

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Live long as you may, the first twenty years of your life are the longest half of your life.

—Robert Southey

To be German means to carry on a matter for its own sake.

—Richard Wagner

What we do

API Line Pipe Couplings · Ashland Poly Grease Traps · Ashland Poly Lint Interceptors · Brass Threaded Pipe Fittings and Nipples · Brass Valves: Ball, Gate, and Check · Carbon Steel Buttweld Pipe Fittings · Carbon Steel Pipe: Schedule 10- XXH, Grade A, B, API 5L, X42, X52, X65, X70 · Copper Fittings · Copper Tubing · Delta Faucet Repair Parts (RP19804, etc.) · Forged Steel Pipe Flanges · Forged Steel Pipe Fittings: 3M, 6M, Threaded, Socket Weld, Butt Weld · Genuine Sloan Valve Repair Parts · Plumbing Supplies · Price Pfister Faucet Repair Parts · PVC Valves: Ball, Check, Butterfly · Stainless Steel Pipe: 304, 304L, 316, 316L,Seamless, Welded, Schedule 10 thru 120 · Stainless Steel Pipe Fittings: 150# Threaded, 3M, 6M Forged, Threaded, Socket Weld, Buttweld · Tapco Genuine Parts Center · Weld-O-Lets · Thread-O-Lets · Branch Connections · Carbon and Stainless Steel · We Cut, Thread, Groove, and Fabricate Pipe and Fittings.

We Specialize in the Oddball and Hard to Find.

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. ¶Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. ¶In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. ¶The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. ¶When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. ¶If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. ¶Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. ¶Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. ¶Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. ¶Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. ¶The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. ¶The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. ¶There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. ¶And it all avails nothing. ¶If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. ¶Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. ¶That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. ¶That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus
Copyright Cadillac Motor Division

Alamo Pipe Inc.

Alamo Pipe Inc. is located in El Paso, Texas. Since 1995 we have provided quality pipe and services to the water, oil, gas, sewer, irrigation, plumbing, electric power, and industrial markets. ¶We specialize in brass, carbon steel, copper, PVC, and stainless steel pipe, valves, fittings and piping accessories. ¶Not bound by territory and imaginary lines, API sells these products around the world. ¶For more than 17 years, thousands of oil companies, engineers, drillers, mechanical contractors, manufacturing plants, water treatment plants, schools and universities around the world have called on us looking for something special. ¶Be it fabricated pipe or fittings, or heavy wall pipe cut to a certain length or just something no one else wants to mess with. ¶API specializes in high yield, heavy wall, oddball, hard to find carbon and stainless steel pipe, valves and fittings. ¶We deal with all the major pipe companies and have access to all the pipe and services you will ever need. ¶ Next time you need something like this in a hurry, contact Alamo Pipe.

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