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LEDs for the Blind
boowax writes "Tired of being blinded by those annoying laser pointers that have found their way into all sorts of places for the convenience of corporate presenters? Looked too closely at the underside of your optical mouse? Are you just dumb enough to look directly into a laser? Well, fret no more, for here is a new technique for stimulating and healing those damaged retinal cells using LEDs. Its also being tested for use in treating similar problems caused by mucositis (a side effect of chemotherapy) and other eye related maladies."
Netcraft has confirmed: Taco-snotting is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Taco-snotting community when recently IDC confirmed that Taco-snotting accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all homosexual acts. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Taco-snotting has lost more fag practitioners, this news serves to reinforce what weve known all along. Taco-snotting faggots are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Faggot World comprehensive snotting test.
You dont need to be a Katz to predict Taco-snottings future. The handwriting is on the wall: Taco-snotting faces a bleak future. In fact there wont be any future at all for Taco-snotting because Taco-snotting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Taco-snotting. As many of us are already aware, Taco-snotting continues to lose faggotshare. White ink flows like a river of bubbly, thick jizz. The circle-snot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core snotters.
Lets keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Circle-snotting leader Jeff Homos Masterbates states that there are 7000 snotters of the circle-snot. How many users of anal snot are there? Lets see. The number of circle-snotting versus anal snot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 anal snot users. SnotOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of anal snot posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SnotOS. A recent article put the circle-snot at about 80 percent of the Taco-snotting market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 circle-snot users. This is consistent with the number of circle-snot Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of CowboiKneels walnuts, abysmal sales and so on, the circle-snot went out of business and was taken over by SNOTi who sell another troubled Taco-snot. Now SNOTi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another gay whorehouse.
All major surveys show that Taco-snotting has steadily declined in faggotshare. Taco-snotting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Taco-snotting is to survive at all it will be among heterosexual hobbyist dabblers. Taco-snotting continues to decay. Nothing short of a jizz-soaked miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Taco-snotting is dead.
Fact: Taco-snotting is dead.
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I always thought it was just a regular LED. Do optical mice like my Cordless Mouseman have actual lasers? The light spreads so much it does not definitely look like a laser, but i know nothing about hardware, so could anyone enlighten me on this?
how many ./'ers are going to need to this IR LED treatment after checking their optical mouse to see whether it is in fact a laser. |-)
"Bold as Love"
Christ, I love Greek! Women just don't seem to understand that a
man can find just as much pleasure in the warm confines of a well-
muscled ass as they can in the satin embrace of a well-wetted
cunt. Maybe we men have conditioned them too well to ignoring one
hole for the other: nonetheless, every man I've talked to about it
loves Greek and every woman who I've talked to about it has been
less than enthusiastic. So imagine my surprise last weekend when
Ophelia treated me to the joys of anal sex in what must be the
first time in five or six years.
The night started our strangely. Ophelia had just finished re-
arranging her large library and was exhausted. As suits my
biological clock, I was just coming awake at 10 PM when she was
turning in. She invited me to bed and I politely declined: I was
horny as usual and told her I'd keep her awake. After a couple of
more requests from her, I stripped and crawled in beside her.
Ophelia loves to snuggle and wasted no time in curling her small
body up next to mine. I turned and kissed her. She was oddly
responsive for her tired state, and teased me with a hint of
tongue in her kisses. I reached down to feel her muff and found
it just beginning to rev as her right hand slipped down her belly
to her clit.
I took up what has become my customary position between her legs -
kneeling and using my cock as a sex toy to tickle her lower labia
and the entrance to her cunt. But this time I let my aim wander
lower to the wonderful curve where ass, crotch, and leg meet. I
rubbed my cock against this soft crescent and expanded the stroke
to brush against the entrance to her ass. I noticed that every
time that my prick touched her rosebud, her strokes on her clit
quickened. It wasn't long before I was pressing the tip of my
cock against her asshole.
Surprise! My cock slipped easily into her ass until the entire
head was buried inside, and just as I was about to pull out and
apoligize, she handed me a bottle of sex lubricant and said "What
the fuck? Why not?". I pulled back and poured the lubricant on
my hard cock and noticed her pussy was swollen and very wet. I
worked my cock back into its previous nest. It was so easy. I
could feel her ass muscles relaxing and opening for me. I eased
ever so slowly deeper. Such heaven! Like a warm, wet hand
gripping all around my prick - so much tighter than pussy, and
delightful in an entirely different way. I could feel her hips
grind against me as I worked the last of my seven-plus inches into
her back door. Realizing where I was and how long it had been
since I'd known this pleasure, I had to fight to pull the reigns
in on my orgasm.
It seemed like forever - my slow rocking pulling my cock almost
full-length out of her ass before easing it back in until my balls
rested against her firm buns. Her right hand furiously massaged
her clit and her left hand played at the entrance of her cunt,
pressing on the full length of her labia. And all the while my
cock was enveloped in a firm net of gripping muscles that wrestled
to bring the cum from me. "It's so weird," she said as she
searched for the grip on her own orgasm. Suddenly, it was upon
her. I felt her ass open up like a mouth that was just to blow up
a ballon. "Are you close?" she hissed. "No," I grunted.
She was close, tho'. Too close to stop. I felt her stiffen and
lurch under me. "Uuhhhh! Come on you bastard! Fill my ass!" she
yelled as she dug her nails into my back. Amazing what a little
dirty talk will do - from that special nowhere where good men
hide their orgasms until their lovers are ready, my load bolted
from my crotch to my brain and back to my flushed balls. I
gripped the pillow with my teeth and jerked my neck back and forth
and tried not to deafen Ophelia when my cum blasted out of my cock
like water from a firehose. The rush of jism racing up my tube
seemed to last for stroke after stroke until sweaty Ophelia
gasped, grunted, and pushed me from on top of her. Since I have
a little anal experience myself, I knew the sudden discomfort of
having something in your ass after you've orgasmed. I
considerately slipped out of her despite not having finsihed my
own orgasm to my complete satisfaction.
I kissed her and thanked her for her special gift, but she pushed
me away. "Go wash off and fuck my pussy," she said " I feel like
something's undone." So after a quick and thourough shower, I
returned to the futon where her dripping, swollen twat waited for
my not-quite-recovered cock.
And that's another story...
Laser diodes used in CD drives and whatnot are similar in principle, but the construction is somewhat different.
Here's the construction of one by Sharp, and an explanation of how they work.
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I am glad to see things advancing to this. For too long we have been dependant solely on drugs, and even though they have done good, it has come with consequence. But I think as experience meets science in the world of treatments other than just mainstream drugs, things in the medical field will begin to advance substantially. We have such amazing resources at our disposal, but in medicine, one of the most amazing tools is our own bodies. Our healing mechanisms and our immune systems are not to reckon with. Once we learn how to stimulate and properly understand our own medical mechanism, we will have definitely come a long way.
...BSD is dying?
Maybe LED's can tell them.
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All the optical mice I've seen don't use lasers. If they did, they'd be required by law to have the standard laser warning sticker in plain view on them. I have yet to see a mouse with such a sticker.
They just use very bright LEDs. If you think about it, that's all that's really necessary. It just needs to illuminate the surface under the mouse with a color that the sensor is sensitive to.
The light from a regular LED looks nothing like that from a Laser Diode. Even the cheapest laser pointer has wonderful "scintillation", where the lighted area appears to sparkle.
This is caused by head and eye motion changing the light pathlength and interference patterns. It gives laser light a unique sparkle and shimmer that ordinary LEDs can only aspire to.
So the LED on the optical mouse is clearly not a laser, just ordinary light for lighting up the mousepad. And the cheapest $2.99 laser pointer really is a laser.
I wonder if this means I can now stare directly at an eclipse?
:-)
I've always imagined that the experience would be the equivalent of 'staring into the face of god' or 'eating the apple in the garden of Eden'.
If we can cure the eye damage, maybe I can start a cult and live happily ever after.
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Some people are always going to try the "don't try this at home" tricks.
I remember having a physics lession; something about sound. Anyway, we had a couple of tuning forks.
The teacher said: "Oh, by the way, don't put it to your teeth! That would make your enamel shatter".
You can guess the rest.
I, for one, don't want to give anyone any bad ideas. So forget you ever read this!
No sig to see here. Move along.
Are laser pointers really laser pointers? How about CDRom's?
Light Amplification by Standard Emission of Radiation... are we getting nuked when we use these? I doubt it.
And where's the Ruby in my old broken CDRom drive?
What then does an optical mouse use? I assumed that the light at the bottom of a mouse was a laser that reflected the light off the mouse pad or desktop back up so that the mouse could be used in the same fasion as a sonar.... it made sence to me, could anyone tell me where I can read up on the science of the optical mouse?
I always thought it was just a regular LED. Do optical mice like my Cordless Mouseman have actual lasers? The light spreads so much it does not definitely look like a laser, but i know nothing about hardware, so could anyone enlighten me on this?
Well, like the filament of the rectifier tube in my 1939 Stewart-Warner radio, it hurts my eyes to stare into it, and it's red, but it's definitely not a laser.
Lasers come in wavelengths (colors) ranging from invisible to invisible, and everything in between. For a variety of reasons, almost all the lasers you're likely to encounter will be red or IR (invisible).
You can tell a laser from any other source of light very easily:
Is the light coherent? As in, if you shine the light at the house across the street, does the dot appear to be the same diameter as it was when you pointed it at your hand? Coherency is a basic feature of laser light; some spread is normal, but if it spreads like a flashlight, it's not coherent.
Speckle. Laser light almost always appears speckled. Regular light consists of an infinite number of wavelengths of light mixed to make white. Ranges can be filtered out with sheets of glass, plastic, etc - think of sunlight in a stained glass window, there may be 300 different wavelengths that we would describe as red light. But laser light is at a peak wavelength, with some slight impurities. But it's very precise. If all your light is at one wavelength, when it hits an imperfect (ie. any) surface, some light will reflect back 180 degrees out of phase and cancel itself out (like adding -1 and +1, they cancel to zero). This accentuates imperfections on the reflecting surface in the form of speckle.
I don't see either one of these behaviors with the light from my own Mouseman. So, all I can assume is that it's merely a bright LED.
LEDs are certainly bright enough: many cars use LED third brake lights, some new Cadillacs and Mercedes are using them as the main taillights, and I've seen traffic lights in Toronto (Eglinton East at Sloan) and Ottawa (Gladstone at some intersection between Preston and Bronson), so LEDs are certainly up to the task of lighting an image of my mousepad.
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Put your tuning fork on the bridge of your violin. If the A-string is in tune it will resonate. Bring your little finger close, and as it touches, you not only get a loud buzz, but you can feel the string hitting your finger.