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Random Raves 40: Happy new year
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sophie
Break My Heart
My Alerts alerted me to the fact that the forum software awarded me a trophy for being Seriously Likeable (in other words, having received 100 "likes.").
Thanks, all - that's a nice thing to cheer a person up.
That dam post you made was excellent. One of my favorites of the last month or two.
Snerk
Smeghead
I'm just glad the forum software can't alert me of being unlikeable. "Alert: so it turns out you're a d-head.."
dusters
Emperor
I hope to finally have sex after 1 month of dating. Maybe I'm optimistic, but she said she can imagine us doing it.
I was just out shoveling snow when right beside me a hawk tried to hit a blue jay, and missed. Jay took off with hard evasives, and hawk sat there a moment looking really annoyed. Left a handful of feathers on the pavement.
My somewhat brain-damaged but well-to-do and still alive grandmother has sent me a $250 Christmas check, with a little help from my relatives to write them.
Now I could be a responsible person and use it to pay down debt, or I could go blow it all on the cheapest thermal IR camera I could find along with a few accessories, like thin silicon wafers (translucent in mid-IR) and a chunk of germanium (even more transparent, with a refractive index of 4, far beyond anything in the visible range). So of course you all know what I chose.
It's pretty awesome. Resolution is only 80x60 and it's so low-end that it doesn't store images - you have to snap them yourself with a camera. But even the grainy images are still good enough to get a great idea of what the world looks like in the mid-IR. Silicon wafers are translucent, but glass is opaque. Aluminum and most other metals reflect very well, so that you can get a reflection of your own IR just by hovering your hand over an aluminum can, or you can make a mirror with a piece of aluminum foil and hold it above a burner, then capture the reflection of the burner and get the camera to think the foil is as hot as the burner itself. Sometimes you'll catch little reflections of yourself bouncing off walls and whatnot, too. It's also really obvious if your house has wintertime energy leaks - just look for the blue spots near potential problem areas. Now I want to find a narrow-spectrum mid-IR source to experience all the differences in how light behaves at that energy scale.
Of and of course there's the best part: IR selfies!
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Now I could be a responsible person and use it to pay down debt, or I could go blow it all on the cheapest thermal IR camera I could find along with a few accessories, like thin silicon wafers (translucent in mid-IR) and a chunk of germanium (even more transparent, with a refractive index of 4, far beyond anything in the visible range). So of course you all know what I chose.
It's pretty awesome. Resolution is only 80x60 and it's so low-end that it doesn't store images - you have to snap them yourself with a camera. But even the grainy images are still good enough to get a great idea of what the world looks like in the mid-IR. Silicon wafers are translucent, but glass is opaque. Aluminum and most other metals reflect very well, so that you can get a reflection of your own IR just by hovering your hand over an aluminum can, or you can make a mirror with a piece of aluminum foil and hold it above a burner, then capture the reflection of the burner and get the camera to think the foil is as hot as the burner itself. Sometimes you'll catch little reflections of yourself bouncing off walls and whatnot, too. It's also really obvious if your house has wintertime energy leaks - just look for the blue spots near potential problem areas. Now I want to find a narrow-spectrum mid-IR source to experience all the differences in how light behaves at that energy scale.
Of and of course there's the best part: IR selfies!
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JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
I knew it! Mods are secretly aliens! Run for the bunkers! 
I fixed and cropped the image and removed the spoiler tags, because I want everyone to see me in my full IR glory.
I like how obvious my nose is and how it's a full 10 C cooler than body temperature.
Depends on what you mean by aliens. We're from all over the Local Group, if that's what you mean.
Nope, just showing you what it's like to see your prey by the heat it gives off.
I like how obvious my nose is and how it's a full 10 C cooler than body temperature.
I knew it! Mods are secretly aliens! Run for the bunkers!
Depends on what you mean by aliens. We're from all over the Local Group, if that's what you mean.
You are cos-playing as Bane?
Nope, just showing you what it's like to see your prey by the heat it gives off.
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Yeah! I finished my first paid art commission! Was requested yesterday morning and finished tonight and the customer was very happy. I had him pay an introductory price too but when I officially announce it, I'll bump up the price just a little bit and have the extra option of adding a fancy background and lighting.
Thank you, Owen.
Did the shovel thief return your shovel, or did you have to go out and buy a new one?
I don't need a special camera to tell me that - all I need to do is stand there and feel the cool air.
You should post that over in the Members' Photos thread.
Had to buy a new one. The old one even had my name written on it.
Snow shovels are not like spades. You push and lift with them. They're not for digging holes.Who wouldn't want a spade called "Cutlass"?
Not really a rave: It is snowing quite a bit here now.
It isn't a rave, cause while it looks nice, it makes walking very difficult and slow, and i hate the cold too.
At least the weather will move to something more logical by Thursday... (high of 7 Celsius then)
It isn't a rave, cause while it looks nice, it makes walking very difficult and slow, and i hate the cold too.
At least the weather will move to something more logical by Thursday... (high of 7 Celsius then)
Yesterday there was a very sudden rainstorm, or rather a tempest. It rained in through three of my windows. I've managed to dry out most stuff and minimise the loss of items, and happily, the power outtage hasn't meant a loss of my refrigerator, television set or 'phone charger. I still have to test the desktop computer in the other room, but it wasn't turned on at the time (IIRC it wasn't even plugged in) so it should have weathered it –also, by a lucky coincidence it was placed away from the window insted of in the traditional place where it should have been, otherwise I'd still be using paper tissues and a hair dryer today, 12 hours later, trying to salvage individual parts and hoping that the hard drive can be recovered. Yay!
Of course, I was caught in it which is a summer tradition, but getting drenched isn't much of a problem when the temperature is higher than 30 degrees.
Of course, I was caught in it which is a summer tradition, but getting drenched isn't much of a problem when the temperature is higher than 30 degrees.
I must have missed that post. Can anyone provide a link?Thank you, Owen.
So we don't cal them spades then?
I'm listening to the sounds of people scraping ice and snow off their windshields, and the wind is blowing at a pretty good clip now. I can see and hear the wind blowing the snow around - off the spruce trees across the parking lot from the room I'm in now, and into drifts on the ground. This is a good day to stay inside.
This is the post Owen where clicked "Like": https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/global-warming-strikes-again.606075/page-24#post-14613239
Spades are for digging in the ground, and you can't do that here in winter because the ground is frozen.
Snow shovels push the snow along the surface, and are used to lift the snow into a pile. Snow is a lot heavier than it looks, especially when it's wet. That's why I'd rather sweep a sidewalk three times than try to shovel once.
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