As a maker of such writing, he descends from a long line traceable from Whitman and Melville to the modernists and Mackey’s idol, Baraka, to the metafictionists John Barth and William Gass.

Method of producing short boards as boards for boxes, cases or the like, characterized by the fact that the log previous to or after the ends thereof being cut away as usual is cut into short logs or blicks of about the length of the boards to be produced,

The inspector again rebatches the material into his company's own system and notes the details (i.e. material specification, dimensions, supplier, date received, etc.) into his batch book.

He owned several local businesses and was a face around town.