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Well, I got tired of the Slashdot editors rejecting the stories that I submit, so I am using the journal function on Slashdot to post the stories. You can also post replies and comments on the stories there. The URL is: http://slashdot.org/~farrellj/journal
In other news, Baba O'Reilly by The Who is now being used by HP to advertise their products. It is a really psychedelic commercial too, with the synth intro being used, and the image changing in time to the music...wow. It will certainly appeal to the acidheads in the popular audience!
Today, I hope to find a lawyer...and try and find out from unemployment what's really up since I haven't recieved my final check, and my company says that I won't get it until June 1st. Other things on my plate are picking up my new glasses and sunglasses...As I am doing this on the cheap, I was not able to get the sunglasses polarized, which helps greatly..but they say that they can be retro-fitted with polarization...so maybe in a month or so. Polarization is important for sunglasses as normal sunglasses only darken the image you see, and some block UV rays...although if you are driving, most of them are blocked by the glass in your car. Polarization will actualy filter out most of the suns rays, and greatly reduce glare. You can always tell if sunglasses are polarized before you buy them at the store by taking two of them, and holding them at right angles to each other. If they are polarized, you won't be able to see through them...but as you rotate them out of being at right angles, they will slowly allow you to see through them.
I was amazed the first time I saw this demontrated to me. The Ottawa Science Fiction Society used to have a yearly summer weekend outing to Jim Rae's cottage, and one year on the way up, I was riding with Rabbit (aka Paul Davidson), who is a huge photography buff, and he pointed to this store that had that shiny reflective type window where you can't see in during the daytime, and told me to look through the camera at the window. As I looked, he rotated the polarization filter on the lense, and lo and behold, suddenly I could see everything behind the window! Basically, by adjusting the polarization, it filtered out enough energy that the glare, which is basically your eye being overloaded with light, to a level your eye can handle. I really should find Paul again and thank him for many things that he helped me with over the years...
Well, I should go and continue my lawyer search...
ttyl
In other news, Baba O'Reilly by The Who is now being used by HP to advertise their products. It is a really psychedelic commercial too, with the synth intro being used, and the image changing in time to the music...wow. It will certainly appeal to the acidheads in the popular audience!
Today, I hope to find a lawyer...and try and find out from unemployment what's really up since I haven't recieved my final check, and my company says that I won't get it until June 1st. Other things on my plate are picking up my new glasses and sunglasses...As I am doing this on the cheap, I was not able to get the sunglasses polarized, which helps greatly..but they say that they can be retro-fitted with polarization...so maybe in a month or so. Polarization is important for sunglasses as normal sunglasses only darken the image you see, and some block UV rays...although if you are driving, most of them are blocked by the glass in your car. Polarization will actualy filter out most of the suns rays, and greatly reduce glare. You can always tell if sunglasses are polarized before you buy them at the store by taking two of them, and holding them at right angles to each other. If they are polarized, you won't be able to see through them...but as you rotate them out of being at right angles, they will slowly allow you to see through them.
I was amazed the first time I saw this demontrated to me. The Ottawa Science Fiction Society used to have a yearly summer weekend outing to Jim Rae's cottage, and one year on the way up, I was riding with Rabbit (aka Paul Davidson), who is a huge photography buff, and he pointed to this store that had that shiny reflective type window where you can't see in during the daytime, and told me to look through the camera at the window. As I looked, he rotated the polarization filter on the lense, and lo and behold, suddenly I could see everything behind the window! Basically, by adjusting the polarization, it filtered out enough energy that the glare, which is basically your eye being overloaded with light, to a level your eye can handle. I really should find Paul again and thank him for many things that he helped me with over the years...
Well, I should go and continue my lawyer search...
ttyl
