Yeah, laugh if you will. Women who've had many kids claim the stones were worse than childbirth. I've been incapacitated, crawling on the ground out of the bathroom with shakes, chills, vomitting, and god un-ending unbearable pain.
I used to take lortab (vicadin). 5/500's worked. Then I had to up it to 7.5/250's. I personally was starting to get freaked about all of the tylenol, deadly poison as it is, that I was ingesting.
The 2nd to last stone I had required 6 5/500s in a 30 minute period and STILL did nothing. I finally got the docs to up me to Endocot. Didn't help.
I'm told the last resort is Oral Morphine. I won't lie when I say that dosing on that brings a 'rush' and it is nice, but I can't honestly say whether or not it's pleasure or just relief from the unending fucking pain. Those stones never seem so bad in retrospect, but on the last one I decided to try and rate it by scraping my skin with a pin- didn't even compare.... and I'm too afraid to try it without the stone because I'm betting it's gonna hurt;)
SO... would vaccination help? I don't take those pills for the rush, I take them because I've had 18 kidney stones (doctor misprescribed medicine). I can't imagine what life would be life if I'd had to start on something stronger than lortab for the first 14 stones.
... is responsible for much of the Image Quality you see in those images. The good news is that IF they scanned them in raw mode (which they may not have been able to do) it's possible to get even MORE information out of them.
I have worked on data paths and tested some features on the scanner when I worked in Kodak Professional. Hands down it is by far the most incredible piece of equipment I've been allowed to work on. It scans a 120mm neg in 6 seconds flat. (servo motor whine) *blip* (scanner stage moves back across) *blip* Image pops up on the screen.
If I could afford it, I'd have one of these in my home. Very low noise, very high sharpness, and now has integrated Digital ICE for dust removal.
IF they scanned these images in at the highest settings you should theoretically be able to make 20x30s as good as the original prints. If they scanned them in as RAW you might even be able to go higher... I can only wish.
*sigh* to see such a good use for that beautiful technology...
Thats NOT a laser. That's an LED. ALL IR Lasers are CO2 burning/Cutting. That was the humorous point of my post- it's an IR Light Emitting Diode 'tag' set, not an IR Laser Tag set.
Like I said, were it the latter you'd know you were hit when a welt appeared on your skin, followed up immediately by your scream of agony as the laser burned thru your flesh. Assuming you could see after the reflected IR radiation blinded you.
What are you trying to do- burn holes in people? That's making it a bit TOO realistic, IMHO.
What you want to do is use RED lasers for targetting, but you need the beam to be larger than the 1cm it'll spread over any distance. So you need to either fire it into a spinning prism such that it 'scans' a space over an acceptable range, or you need to optically enlarge the beam and recollaminate it.
More fun, I would think, would be to use GREEN lasers. They're visible to the eye, but you would absolutely REQUIRE eye protection for both you and any participants. A green laser to the eye would be temporarily blinding; some red lasers too but green is 'peaked' for pain.
Now you could also use a bunch of stacked LED arrays to make a more realistic beam punch or larger batteries... or...
Really. I swear it's true. Not mustard gas exactly, but a precursor of both... and it's a VERY nasty agent. In fact, exposure can sensitize you to the point that you are constantly ill...
Oh yeah- I work for the Yellow Box (at least until they laid me off and I no longer get to work with chemicals)...
Now I've archived them all to DVD, 2x for security. That means I need 56 dvds (23 go in an offline jukebox, 23 into a spindle around the block) to be 'safe'.
Now editing those photos typically creates 89mb images for printing. The largest are the scanned chromes, at 8000LPI from a drum scanner. To give you an idea, this prints natively at 40x60x400LPI on photographic paper.
What's this mean? It means I damn well want this to hit the commercial market, hard, and cheap;) It's pretty bad when you have to buy 200 gb HDs and use them to backup your images and stick'em in the closet. There are better uses.
Of course they have not addressed the longetivity of these disks. Just like Epson made a little blunder, I'd hate to have my data on it offline and find out, 3 months later, that the high levels of smog have eaten it into oblivion.
(Canon 10D generates 6.4mb/image; each image generates 36mb 16bit Tiff; each tiff is manipulated to create a minimum of a 16x20 print which may have multiple images/reprints)
Thats an average. If I look at individuals, I see as high as 38mpg and as low as 14mpg.
As has been said "Your milage may vary". (yes I have a 5 tank moving average availble too...)
As a side note the gas increas is only going to cost me about 200$ more a year. But it has driven the number of miles down I drive... and consequently how much I spend on trips. Interesting ehh?
- but I've got to imagine being on top of a 70 story building required some level of expertise.
I truly don't know what occurred up on that roof, the theory was it was a premature detonation due to falling debries, but in the pitch dark who could tell for sure what landed where....
Seriously, it's more akin to a 'thwuuup' sound. A rifle makes a larger crack than most mortars fired off. Ideally all of the gas has reached near atmospheric pressure after firing- those are huge shells (20lbs to 50lbs isn't unusual)- a 2 or 3 atmoshperic discharge over a 9" opening isn't going to make much noise.
Lets face it. Fireworks are nothing more than mortars with a slightly mistimed fuse and a non-fragmentary casing.
Using any form of explosive to launch this is dangerous. The tubes must withstand the tremendous launch pressure. There is also the severe risk of burning ashes falling back into the cylinder complex and igniting a shell from the top down- at which point you have a buring bomb waiting for the heat to fry the launch charge.
Modern shows alleviate nearly all of these problems... but I've still witnessed a number of accidents- the most memorable (for me) was when an ash fell into a mortar array atop the Citibank tower in Indianapolis- the entire rooftop 'lit up'. Someone was severely burned, and (I believe) lived... burned over a good portion of his body.
Non-flammable launches won't eliminate (I'm going to miss the downwind smell, sigh) misfires in the tubes, but they should lower the risk during launch. It won't eliminate (or even affect) an ash falling into a shell, but at least you have less explosive contained in a small space waiting to go off.
And as such most of his relatives have gmail accounts. I just photographed his sister's wedding; we've been using the gmail to send the large images back and forth (about 4mb to 6mb each).
Every email from gmail to me gets bounced or delayed for up to 4 days (gmail->hotmail). Any email from anyone else, goes in just fine.
Any email from hotmail->gmail, delayed. Any email using a relay such as my rr.com one, goes in just fine.
Conclusion: Hotmail is dicking with my emails and REALLY pissing me off.
... as we watched the 1st launch since the Challenger disaster...
"GO baby, GO!"
I'll be counting down. Heck I might even break out the model rockets and find a big park to go 'celebrate' (course the biggest park is next to a gorge, we don't like strong winds...)
Just purchased a 10D and a 16-35 f2.8L lense (about 2700$ total).
The system locked up during a wedding I was photographing. Why? Water apparently condensed on the contacts in the lense.
The 10D has absolutely the WORST focus on anything other than central point that I have ever seen- and I'm coming from an eight year old A2.
I have shots that would be in focus (you could feel the lense jittering) and then upon depressing the shutter button the focus would jump (out, that is).
I've had a total of 4 firearms pointed at me in my entire life.
1) Photographing a blood-red moon setting behind a school. Great shot. Cop pulls up behind my car about 500 yards away (hazards on flash). I head over so he won't give me a ticket.... and end up getting the business end of a riot gun aimed at me. Apparently someonecalled in a 'peeping tom' and he thought I was a suspect (uhh, yeah. leave my car outside with flashing lights... right.)
2) Trying to cross the road in France a sub machine gun aimed at me. Apparently the officer was saying 'you may not cross the road' in french, but that wasn't in my limited vocabulary... but seeing a jet black automatic aimed at you certainly was. The Prime Minister of Vietnam? (not even sure now) was traveling in the tunnels and they didn't want anything dropped on him (from my friends conversation afterwards)
3) Random search by airport security. I'd forgotten to put my steel toes on the conveyor. Legit concern;-)
4) Cleaning a disassembled pistol. Idiotic to do such a thing, EVEN broken down, EVEN non-fireable (I had both clips in my hand). Still not funny.
Anyways, thats been my experience. In each case (save the first) it's been avoidable.
I've chased an Estes rocket launched with 2D's in stages nearly 1 mile before it came back to earth, and I don't believe it got over 3500Feet (damn air currents).
Honestly this is rather interesting. I've heard about the problems of establishing a GPS lock after a 25G sustained force- and that it's near impossible. Pulling it off is quite a feat.
I don't understand why they are returning to earth so soon, however- shouldn't a parachute (which arguably wouldn't provide much slowdown with ~1000 molecules/cm3) delay the reentry more than 1/2 hour? Unless they are expecting to lawn dart;)
John and his GF were killed by a drunk driver (.27! BAC) on Mothers Day.
His death damaged his family; his sister has undergone many treatments for eating disorders.
It also wounded the rest of us.
Until recently his webpages, taken back in 1999, were up. Geocities just removed them finally; I feel like part of me is gone now.
His old blog is at http://www.htmlgear.tripod.com/gw/guest/contro l.gu est?u=sopgod&a=view&i=1&r=http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/3985/contents.html I had to email them and beg to get it restored; I'm not above groveling.
Yahoo, unfortunately, has told me to go 'screw off' and won't do anything about restoring his pages, even if it's just long enough to create a copy site.
Did it once before in the past, but that backup I just discovered was dead.
Slashdot Mirror
And switched to Geico, dropping my premiums by 350$ a year.
I've had no accidents (I was tboned when a guy ran a stopsign) and no tickets.
They dropped my homeowners 8 months later AFTER I switched to geico. No reason given.
... fucked.
I had the drives mirrored and the primary OS wouldn't load. So, all together, I have 160/200/200 and 80/80/60 that I can't get to.
I think the PSU went... but I can't imagine how that could cook off so many drives. *sigh*
I guess I'll be testing that warranty alot sooner than I'd expected.
... recurrent kidney stones.
;)
Yeah, laugh if you will. Women who've had many kids claim the stones were worse than childbirth. I've been incapacitated, crawling on the ground out of the bathroom with shakes, chills, vomitting, and god un-ending unbearable pain.
I used to take lortab (vicadin). 5/500's worked. Then I had to up it to 7.5/250's. I personally was starting to get freaked about all of the tylenol, deadly poison as it is, that I was ingesting.
The 2nd to last stone I had required 6 5/500s in a 30 minute period and STILL did nothing. I finally got the docs to up me to Endocot. Didn't help.
I'm told the last resort is Oral Morphine. I won't lie when I say that dosing on that brings a 'rush' and it is nice, but I can't honestly say whether or not it's pleasure or just relief from the unending fucking pain. Those stones never seem so bad in retrospect, but on the last one I decided to try and rate it by scraping my skin with a pin- didn't even compare.... and I'm too afraid to try it without the stone because I'm betting it's gonna hurt
SO... would vaccination help? I don't take those pills for the rush, I take them because I've had 18 kidney stones (doctor misprescribed medicine). I can't imagine what life would be life if I'd had to start on something stronger than lortab for the first 14 stones.
... is responsible for much of the Image Quality you see in those images. The good news is that IF they scanned them in raw mode (which they may not have been able to do) it's possible to get even MORE information out of them.
I have worked on data paths and tested some features on the scanner when I worked in Kodak Professional. Hands down it is by far the most incredible piece of equipment I've been allowed to work on. It scans a 120mm neg in 6 seconds flat. (servo motor whine) *blip* (scanner stage moves back across) *blip* Image pops up on the screen.
If I could afford it, I'd have one of these in my home. Very low noise, very high sharpness, and now has integrated Digital ICE for dust removal.
IF they scanned these images in at the highest settings you should theoretically be able to make 20x30s as good as the original prints. If they scanned them in as RAW you might even be able to go higher... I can only wish.
*sigh* to see such a good use for that beautiful technology...
Thats NOT a laser. That's an LED. ALL IR Lasers are CO2 burning/Cutting. That was the humorous point of my post- it's an IR Light Emitting Diode 'tag' set, not an IR Laser Tag set.
Like I said, were it the latter you'd know you were hit when a welt appeared on your skin, followed up immediately by your scream of agony as the laser burned thru your flesh. Assuming you could see after the reflected IR radiation blinded you.
What are you trying to do- burn holes in people? That's making it a bit TOO realistic, IMHO.
What you want to do is use RED lasers for targetting, but you need the beam to be larger than the 1cm it'll spread over any distance. So you need to either fire it into a spinning prism such that it 'scans' a space over an acceptable range, or you need to optically enlarge the beam and recollaminate it.
More fun, I would think, would be to use GREEN lasers. They're visible to the eye, but you would absolutely REQUIRE eye protection for both you and any participants. A green laser to the eye would be temporarily blinding; some red lasers too but green is 'peaked' for pain.
Now you could also use a bunch of stacked LED arrays to make a more realistic beam punch or larger batteries... or...
Really. I swear it's true. Not mustard gas exactly, but a precursor of both... and it's a VERY nasty agent. In fact, exposure can sensitize you to the point that you are constantly ill...
Oh yeah- I work for the Yellow Box (at least until they laid me off and I no longer get to work with chemicals)...
Getting rid of heat is really hard to do in space. Really. The easiest manner is to use, well, water- and get it good and hot and evaporate-cool.
Water is also the most precious material in space.
Which provide the problem: Do you start scooping atmosphere?
... just like I bought 80's when they were $0.50/gig, and 120's when they were $0.43/gig, and 160's.... and now 200's.
So far the system runs 2x200/8mb, 2x80/2mb, and a smattering of 160/120s.
I've even a bunch of fibre channel in a striped array to assist in 1ms seek times as a swap disk.
... exist on my HD.
;) It's pretty bad when you have to buy 200 gb HDs and use them to backup your images and stick'em in the closet. There are better uses.
Now I've archived them all to DVD, 2x for security. That means I need 56 dvds (23 go in an offline jukebox, 23 into a spindle around the block) to be 'safe'.
Now editing those photos typically creates 89mb images for printing. The largest are the scanned chromes, at 8000LPI from a drum scanner. To give you an idea, this prints natively at 40x60x400LPI on photographic paper.
What's this mean? It means I damn well want this to hit the commercial market, hard, and cheap
Of course they have not addressed the longetivity of these disks. Just like Epson made a little blunder, I'd hate to have my data on it offline and find out, 3 months later, that the high levels of smog have eaten it into oblivion.
(Canon 10D generates 6.4mb/image; each image generates 36mb 16bit Tiff; each tiff is manipulated to create a minimum of a 16x20 print which may have multiple images/reprints)
Lets see:
2000: AVG MPG=26, 16k mpy
2001: AVG MPG=23, 13k mpy
2002: AVG MPG=22, 9k mpy
2003: AVG MPG=21, 10k mpy
2004: AVG MPG=21, 10k mpy
Thats an average. If I look at individuals, I see as high as 38mpg and as low as 14mpg.
As has been said "Your milage may vary".
(yes I have a 5 tank moving average availble too...)
As a side note the gas increas is only going to cost me about 200$ more a year. But it has driven the number of miles down I drive... and consequently how much I spend on trips. Interesting ehh?
- but I've got to imagine being on top of a 70 story building required some level of expertise.
I truly don't know what occurred up on that roof, the theory was it was a premature detonation due to falling debries, but in the pitch dark who could tell for sure what landed where....
Just like there is no Spoon.
Seriously, it's more akin to a 'thwuuup' sound. A rifle makes a larger crack than most mortars fired off. Ideally all of the gas has reached near atmospheric pressure after firing- those are huge shells (20lbs to 50lbs isn't unusual)- a 2 or 3 atmoshperic discharge over a 9" opening isn't going to make much noise.
Lets face it. Fireworks are nothing more than mortars with a slightly mistimed fuse and a non-fragmentary casing.
Using any form of explosive to launch this is dangerous. The tubes must withstand the tremendous launch pressure. There is also the severe risk of burning ashes falling back into the cylinder complex and igniting a shell from the top down- at which point you have a buring bomb waiting for the heat to fry the launch charge.
Modern shows alleviate nearly all of these problems... but I've still witnessed a number of accidents- the most memorable (for me) was when an ash fell into a mortar array atop the Citibank tower in Indianapolis- the entire rooftop 'lit up'. Someone was severely burned, and (I believe) lived... burned over a good portion of his body.
Non-flammable launches won't eliminate (I'm going to miss the downwind smell, sigh) misfires in the tubes, but they should lower the risk during launch. It won't eliminate (or even affect) an ash falling into a shell, but at least you have less explosive contained in a small space waiting to go off.
Just my opinion, of course.
Thank you, Disney.
Now thats a monitor. Apparently even 4 dedicated DVI connectors isn't enough for bandwidth purposes.
Funny they never had that problem with CRTs...... but they did have problems with signal reflections.
Newsgroups down, email down... sorta feels like Hotmail on a regular basis (Hotmail is at least honest- "Server too Busy" is their response)
And as such most of his relatives have gmail accounts. I just photographed his sister's wedding; we've been using the gmail to send the large images back and forth (about 4mb to 6mb each).
Every email from gmail to me gets bounced or delayed for up to 4 days (gmail->hotmail). Any email from anyone else, goes in just fine.
Any email from hotmail->gmail, delayed. Any email using a relay such as my rr.com one, goes in just fine.
Conclusion: Hotmail is dicking with my emails and REALLY pissing me off.
The film would have swollen due to the humidity and gotten stuck in the case.
Not being able to process it promptly it would have suffered xray damage.
Lastly I would have had to haul approximately double the weight I took and invest 300$ in film.
Yes, I work for Kodak.
... as we watched the 1st launch since the Challenger disaster...
"GO baby, GO!"
I'll be counting down. Heck I might even break out the model rockets and find a big park to go 'celebrate' (course the biggest park is next to a gorge, we don't like strong winds...)
Just purchased a 10D and a 16-35 f2.8L lense (about 2700$ total).
The system locked up during a wedding I was photographing. Why? Water apparently condensed on the contacts in the lense.
The 10D has absolutely the WORST focus on anything other than central point that I have ever seen- and I'm coming from an eight year old A2.
I have shots that would be in focus (you could feel the lense jittering) and then upon depressing the shutter button the focus would jump (out, that is).
All in all I wish I hadn't bought the 10D.
I've had a total of 4 firearms pointed at me in my entire life.
;-)
1) Photographing a blood-red moon setting behind a school. Great shot. Cop pulls up behind my car about 500 yards away (hazards on flash). I head over so he won't give me a ticket.... and end up getting the business end of a riot gun aimed at me. Apparently someonecalled in a 'peeping tom' and he thought I was a suspect (uhh, yeah. leave my car outside with flashing lights... right.)
2) Trying to cross the road in France a sub machine gun aimed at me. Apparently the officer was saying 'you may not cross the road' in french, but that wasn't in my limited vocabulary... but seeing a jet black automatic aimed at you certainly was. The Prime Minister of Vietnam? (not even sure now) was traveling in the tunnels and they didn't want anything dropped on him (from my friends conversation afterwards)
3) Random search by airport security. I'd forgotten to put my steel toes on the conveyor. Legit concern
4) Cleaning a disassembled pistol. Idiotic to do such a thing, EVEN broken down, EVEN non-fireable (I had both clips in my hand). Still not funny.
Anyways, thats been my experience. In each case (save the first) it's been avoidable.
My redundant chutes were always the 'catch it in the air' approach. It worked, for the most part, at least until my little sister tried once.
;)
She ran and when it looked like she was about to catch it... she balked.
Big Bertha lawn darted 1 foot into the soft, Indiana soil. The engine mount now served as a nose cone.
Oh well. Maybe 2nd chance will come out with something a bit smaller
I've chased an Estes rocket launched with 2D's in stages nearly 1 mile before it came back to earth, and I don't believe it got over 3500Feet (damn air currents).
;)
I cant imagine what a 62 mile arc would give it
Does that model rocket come with an airbag?
;)
Honestly this is rather interesting. I've heard about the problems of establishing a GPS lock after a 25G sustained force- and that it's near impossible. Pulling it off is quite a feat.
I don't understand why they are returning to earth so soon, however- shouldn't a parachute (which arguably wouldn't provide much slowdown with ~1000 molecules/cm3) delay the reentry more than 1/2 hour? Unless they are expecting to lawn dart
Here's to their success
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John and his GF were killed by a drunk driver (.27! BAC) on Mothers Day.
His death damaged his family; his sister has undergone many treatments for eating disorders.
It also wounded the rest of us.
Until recently his webpages, taken back in 1999, were up. Geocities just removed them finally; I feel like part of me is gone now.
His old blog is at
http://www.htmlgear.tripod.com/gw/guest/contr
I had to email them and beg to get it restored; I'm not above groveling.
Yahoo, unfortunately, has told me to go 'screw off' and won't do anything about restoring his pages, even if it's just long enough to create a copy site.
Did it once before in the past, but that backup I just discovered was dead.
Miss ya John.