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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Today was a cleaning and moving things about in the garage day. Saw a few spideys, but no Brown Recluses or Shelobs, thank goodness!
A couple of nights ago, it was real foggy when I got home at 6AM. I took the laser (not the whole rifle) outside and shot it through the fog. I could see the entire beam for at least a quarter mile. It may have gone even farther, but it was getting faint.
I was also able to light up water droplets on leaves even further away. Of course, this was still with an eye-safe .5mW beam. It's just that the human eye is six times more sensitive to green than to red, making the green easier to see, and so appear brighter.
A web site shows how to use the laser from a DVD burner to make a 10mW red beam. That's downright dangerous, and also eats up batteries like crazy.
I bought one.
Why? Well, I had to go speak at one of the Nat'l Labs (DOE) and thought, "Hey, a green laser, being the affordable cutting edge, would give my presentation a little edge." It's always good to have an edge when you're wading into the pure science pool with the PhDs.
I was the last briefer of the day. And wouldn't you know it? *Every* presenter in front of me had a green laser. So much for my edge. (I cain't quite justify $400+ for a spiffy blue one just yet...)
Then week before last, I had to brief the extremely senior chief muckety muck of my organization. And I thought, "Duh - he's a PhD! I can distract him from the not-so-great news on slide 3 with the green laser! He'll say, "ooooh! Green!"'
Well, I couldn't find it. It's lost! So I did without. And wouldn't you know it? I was last again and the presenter in front of me had a green laser. And the PhD said, "Ooooh! Green!" I wanted so much to go beat my forehead on a brick wall.
I need another green laser. (I'm watching those blue prices like a hawk, tho. And yellow, too!)
Evening G’nad - well, I reckon that’s one handgun that would be distinctly unpleasant to shoot. 45-70 I’ll pass, 410 I’d give it a try. Guess there really isn’t any need for sights on it.
Evening Corin - sounds like a good day remodeling and building. A dwarf of many talents. Congrats on a job well done.
Evening Win-mag that’s a sweet set-up on your AR project. I really like the lazer-light set up, very efficient. Docter and ACOG, that is quite a combination. Very nice indeed.
Build an eyeball-popper out of a laser from a DVD burner. That will get attention, and nobody else will have one. Here are the instructions: laser from DVD. The average power is 200mW!
Or you can buy safe, sane, and expensive colored lasers from dragonlasers.com
Now, that’s clever!
I don’t care who you are... *that’s* funny!
Morning Win-mag - that’s pretty cool. I like the green, probably better than the red.
Mwahaha. That’s great!
seen that a while back, when I was werkin’ at Ft Wood... classic...
yoink!... moochus grassyass...
yuh need some kneecaps broke?...
that's a funny story... never ceased to amaze me all the gadgets that GSs and contractors would show up with to make'em look high-speed...
purty much... point, shoot, splint yer wrist... pick up gun... go to ER...
there was a gunshow in town yesterday... but seein' as I was at werk all day gettin' some proto-types out'n the door that shoulduh been done weeks ago, didn't make it... and I had 2,000 pieces of once-fired .40 S&W brass polished up tuh use as barterin' material...
funklemeister....
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