Here you go!
I like this one!
This should come in handy! :D
http://hacylon.case.edu/laser/LaserBoy/o.ild
James. :)
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Here you go!
I like this one!
This should come in handy! :D
http://hacylon.case.edu/laser/LaserBoy/o.ild
James. :)
what?????? james that looks terrible!
he is not white
;)
ahaha good work though!
i'll be projecting that across my street in the days to come :)
My hope is that a lot of people will.Quote:
Originally Posted by thesk8nmidget
I just added this frame to the set that comes with LaserBoy! :D
James. :)
There. I just tweaked it a bit more! :D
http://hacylon.case.edu/laser/LaserBoy/o.ild
James. :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by James Lehman
i WAS BORED SO i DID A MINI O
OK. My offering is art, not a joke.
I did it by hand, not by computer process alone.
There is a difference.
James. ;)
Oh, I was expecting Oprah, not 'Dear Leader'. ;)
Nice job, anyway.
Yeah... I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by drlava
'Dear Leader' is OK though, is he not? :D
James. :)
'Dear Leader' -Quote:
Originally Posted by James Lehman
Hopefully - No!
But the graphic you made is pretty cool!! :)
Well, it's official now. LaserBoy comes with a frame set that includes a picture of the 44th President of The United States of America! :D
Woooooooo Hoooooooo !!! :D
James. :)
Dear Leader, more like Fidel or Mao Tse Tung reincarnate !
I will have to somewhat respect him once he is sworn in.
That will be useful with my Bill and Monica Frames.
My favorite Dear Leader imitation is on Mad TV.
The Kim Jeong Il Show.
James Frame looks good in anarchy and zoofscope
Antony's frame will look good too.
Steve
How's my greenie, weenie? :D
James. :)
While his election shows the American Republic has made great strides since the time of the Civil War, I fear that we are just one more step towards apathy and governmental dependance, which will lead back to bondage. But hey, maybe universal healthcare will work better now than it did in Hawaii.
Quote:
Originally Posted by platinum
Yeah, what he said....
im just waiting for the rapture at this point..
What I'll never understand is why the repubs picked a uneducated (flunked/expensed out of 4 different colleges) soccer mom who couldn't speak well, never traveled the world, showed up at the places in jeans and flannel and needed a 150,000K makeover. She got torn apart by Tina and Katie's writers. I can understand after watching Northren Exposure how she got elected in Alaska, after all, nobody wants a boring day job up there in the land of 3 foot mosquito. Somebody forced her on McCain, did you see him nearly shove her away at his speech last night ? I think shes like a teenager who never grew up. So many other skilled women in the republican party and they picked her.Quote:
Originally Posted by keeperx
Problem is, the folks being suggested for Obama's staff are really old, old line democratic pols, many of whom have been flushed from office(ie Kerry, Datshule et al). iF HE DOESN'T PICK A SKILLED new staff, and not just Polosi approved hacks, we're screwed (and so is he) Since the dems don't have the magic "60" seats in the senate, the repubs can fillibuster, so some balance will be restored. Jeeze, they are talking about bring back a 80 year old former federal reserve chairman for secretary of the treasury and Kerry for sec-state. If they were smart they'd keep Condi or bring back proven Madeline.
Yes Lord, take me home, I want off this planet. The greatest nation in the world has been screwed by its leaders from both sides.
Congrats folks, you just elected a corporate lawyer as a president, you will reap what you sew. Remember, a corporate lawyer looks at "the art of the possible" for his client, not the constitution like a defense lawyer.
What amazes me is the folks partying in the other nations of the world, don't they realize we're broke and he can't help them?
Yes Lord, take me home, I want off this planet. The greatest nation in the world has been screwed by its leaders from both sides
James, your laser is on the test bench, and I'm not a weenie. It appears 100:1 polarized, not great, like 500:1, but it will work with losses of a half milliwatt or so to phase loss in the AO cell. The power transfer will thus be determined by the Bragg effect. Now I just need to see if the polarization rotates with temperature. Ie squirt it with Komponent kooler and see if the ratio of polarization and its orientation stays the same, With DPSS you have to check that, because unlike a gas laser, small differences in the crystal index of refraction will case a favored polarization in low cost YAG if it doesnt have a intracavity plate, if this laser is truely vandate and thus inherently polarized, no change in orientation will occur. . It takes a beamsplitter cube and two polarizers and two detectors to test so power drops from the equation. If the laser were more strongly polarized, just a piece of polarizer would do. I did the initial check visually, and trying to measure green by eyeball is a mistake.
for those who cant figure out what the *&^% I'm talking about, in unpolarized lasers, the polarization usually divides itself between two polarizations at right angles to each other, each new lasing longitudinal mode being in a opposite mode tp the last one. In a gas laser without brewster windows, , the power would be close to 50/50 or 60/40 between the two states, and depending on subtle temperature changes, the two polarizations would spin slowly with time along the axis of the laser cavity. So if you have a pure nd:yag with a poor quality crystal, it will favor one polarization quite a bit and act like a polarized vandate laser , till you change temperature. The professional term is inhomogeneity in the crystal or optics.
In a Nd:vandate laser, used in most low cost Chinese lasers,The vandate is birefringent and has a preferred axis of polarization, the quality of which is dependent on the quality of the crystal growth and structure, and the angle from which the vandate was cut from the mother crystal. But vandate will always be strongly polarized. Since I cant measure the slight difference in wavelength between vandate and yag, I have to test James's laser the hard way to rule out a poor quality yag crystal (hey its a 35$ module, so we're expecting great quality control, right??)
In most higher power vandate DPSS, you would just stick a polarizer in front of the laser and watch the power meter to be sure. But James laser is mode hopping like frying bacon, so I need to be really, really, sure.
Trying to get stuff done to make some money, so it will be a day or two for more results. James, remember to get a matching mounting block/heatsink
Steve.
'Cause she looks REAL good in them jeans! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mixedgas
Ok,lets start a new Party: The Them Jeans Party:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuka
Hum, Christina Applegate and Cathrine Heigle?, Paris can be press secretary and Amy Poehler for sec-def?
Applegate actually has brains,knows how to manage money , and looks damn fine after the reconstructive surgery. Besides she could sing and dance Putin to any treaty she wants.... And having seen her speaking on healthcare for a charity, she knows how the system is messed up by personal experience.
Just being sarcastic, there are many hard working qualified women in politics, but if we're voting on looks, we'll have to lower the minimum age for prez.
IMHO Palin was way too tall, and I feel guilty for talking like that about a married woman.
Steve
Steve, I know you're not a weenie. It just rhymed!
Could you keep all of us up-to-date on the green + AOM. I think there are several people who might get a lot of benefit out of this.
I'd be glad to buy the parts and stuff from you if mine was the first working example you take pictures of! ;)
BTW, I have a whole directory full of pictures of guys. Some of them still have their jeans on. :eek:
Should I share? :rolleyes::D
James. :)
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! that is an album you can keep to yourself... PLEASE! :D
Steve, thanks for trying to explain what you wre talking about. I still don't know what the *&^% you're talking about. ;) Thanks for trying though. :cool:
After the past two years of this "crap", I am actully happy to see a product commercial once in a while on TV. I am also happy to know that no matter who won, almost everyone I know voted. :cool: As for Palin, she does look good in jeans, but them glasses only helped make her "look" smart. ;)
I have come up with an interesting idea. The Presidential canidates are not allowed to pick a running mate... whoever comes in second becomes the VP. >:) Then they would HAVE to work together. :D
As it stands it appears to be the beginning of the end. No rant here just pissed to the level of 10x10^10000000000000000000000000000000. This is however going to set the stage for some really scary stuff to happen. I think his wife is a loose cannon to be sure. Its just awfull. Like the trials of Job.....you don't know that this is for the good of all involved until it unfolds completely.
I am probably going to get blasted here but hey...just a simple observation from astride the fence............
Uhhhh.... so is it good or bad?
Look at it like this... The left, the dems, us, them, whatever you call it has just gotten everything they, we could ever have hoped for. So now they, we have not so much to bitch about. It's their, our job to fix all this crap. They, we have about 2 years!
Hopefully, they, we will become us.
James. :)
I've been biting my tounge so hard its bleeding now. How is it you expect Uncle O to fix "all this crap?" As it stands now, I can't wait for Uncle O to be sworn in so I can quit my job and enjoy the fruits of YOUR labor....Quote:
Originally Posted by James Lehman
Regardless of whether you are in favor of more or less government, you have to see that it (our government) has had a profound influence on every aspect of our daily lives. THAT needs a serious adjustment, one way or the other.
I don't want things to go from bad to worse for anyone either!
James. :)
I'll be in line right behind you DZ.....I want more time to play with my lasers.....and get paid to do so!
I have come up with an interesting idea. The Presidential canidates are not allowed to pick a running mate... whoever comes in second becomes the VP. >:) Then they would HAVE to work together. :D[/QUOTE]
That actually was the way it was ment to be, and was, up until it was found they could not be gentlemen about it.
Steve
He's not gonna be able to cut through the Federal middle management, they run the country. But expect to loose your guns, your travel freedom, and anything over 200,000K in the bank.All mainly symbolic. Bye bye social security and bye bye low taxes. BTW, I wish people would realize he's half white. He will get much of his agenda in the first year.His idea of a national civil police force is down right scary. Unless you address the root evil of the current economic system, which is the fact that nothing but paper is produced in this country, you wont cure a thing. If his policies in the long term do not reduce our import/export ratio, we're done.
Start with the fact that a vaccine that costs 2$ a dose starts at about 40$ to deliver, or that 15 minutes of my doctors time is 69 dollars. And thats the reduced price because I'm unemployed. The two drugs I need are 89$ cash a month. The specialist I need to see if is 170.00 a month, and that is half what they charge a insurance company, as my doctor is being nice. Again thats for 15 minutes.See a problem here, its greed, just like the 4.00 a gallon gas that is suddenly 1.96 a gallon. Unemployment is 800$ a month before taxes. ANd yes I'm paying federal tax on my unemployment, which I paid into for 18 years. 10 minutes on a city ambulance is 400-900$, 5 minutes on a CT scanner is 1600$ and the gadolinium tracer was 1500 for a fraction of a gram of gadolinium solution.
My net access and cell is curtesy of a friend, and they probably would tax that.
Go read the plot of the broadway show/movie urinetown. I hope you find it amusing, they charge you to pee in the future.
Steve
I'll let my jack-o-lantern express my current mood.
As once said in times past by many on the silver screen....
"Y'all can take my guns after you pry'um from my hands...... "
What happened on April 12,1861 ?? The crash of '29??
What comes next???? It will be bad.
Regardless of the outcome...the reasoning behind it was a severe change had to happen...not that I would like that to happen in any form again!! Mass carnage....somewhat organised.
I guess I can always sell out here.....there is work for me all over the world......if it gets to the point where there is no hope.
That's a very insigntful pumpkin!Quote:
Originally Posted by platinum
And a good laugh for me! :D
James. :)
Hmmm - gun show in town this weekend.
Good thing too - better stock up while we can! :mad:
What's interesting is that, right now in relation to history, we are very close to the point where republics fail. A republic works okay, it has to be kept in check. There are too many poeple to decide what's what, so we have representitives who speak for us. What happens when they have their own agenda? There, starts the corruption. As the government gets bigger and bigger, more and more corruption. The problem now is that our government is too big and fat. Like a lazy fat cat, it is no longer agile and can't do what it used to. Dems come up with an idea, try to pass it and the Reps immediately shoot it down, simply because the Dems thought of it. The Dems do the exact same with the Reps. We are at a stalemate. No, we can't get rid of the parties because they will just reform in a decade or so. What we need to do is put the government on a diet. Not cut government programs, so don't get all crazy with me Dems, but cut the red tape. Flush it out. To be slightly disgusting here, our government is 200+ years old and has not had one single enima. I think it's time.
The result of letting things go the way they are going, letting corruption get worse, the people are going to do the exact same thing they did in Rome when they had a republic. They flushed the government and bam, a true empire was born. One elected leader to speak for everyone. I think that is scary, but it will happen. It has happened before. Rome was the melting pot. Cultures from all over the world joined them (some by force, other elected to) We are almost at the same stage. Took under 500 years for that to happen. We are 200+ years in, we are the melting pot, we have over extended ourselves...... History... does repeat.
I fear for us. I think within the next 50 years, we will have a revolution. What will come from the ashes, who knows, but I would rather not see that happen.
That was my couple of coins on the ground for ya.
Two topics that are sure to cause a fuss: Politics and Religion. Yet here we are, talking politics. Sigh... I hope this doesn't get ugly...
Whatever your feelings about president-elect Obama, please remember that the race is over, he won (by an unusually large margin), and thus he *will* be our president come January 2009. So let's at least respect him for that. A united America is always stronger than a divided one.
Also, all jokes aside, I feel pretty strong about one point: You may disagree with him, but to threaten him - even in jest - is treasonous in my book. He's going to be *our* president. And I say that even though I'm a republican.
As for the concern that this is going to usher in some new era of neo-socialism, consider the fact that our national debt is already over 10 trillion *before* the 700 billion dollar bank bailout package. We just don't have the money for lots of new social programs.
Remember that Clinton tried socialized medicine back in the early 90's when we actually could have afforded it. You all see how well that went over. So fears about it happening now are totally unfounded. There will be some lip service paid to the cause I'm sure, but once the books are opened, everyone will see that we can't afford it.
Hell, we're going to be hard pressed just to keep the things we already have. (My guess is we'll probably see some cuts over the next few years - which, given our debt load, is probably not such a bad idea.)
Saddly, I think some of those cuts are going to be in the military, which I do not agree with. (Remember I've got a son in harm's way now. Dan is aboard the USS Peleliu as of yesterday.) But our country has gained some political favor on the world stage as a result of this election. If we're smart in how we deploy our forces over the next 4 years (and especially if we can avoid stepping on our dick in the middle east again), we'll be fine.
As for loosing your guns - that won't happen in 4 years. Trust me on that. It took the Brits nearly 10 years, and they didn't have the NRA. Besides, it's not one of Obama's pet peeve's. No, guns aren't going anywhere.
As for travel freedom, that was already in the shitter after 9/11, thanks to the strangely named "Patriot Act", which actually removed several travelers rights. We're all going to be showing ID and taking off our shoes to get on airplanes for the foreseeable future. (Personally, I can live with it, though I don't like it.)
One good thing about the economy though - it always rebounds after an election. With any luck, we'll see some investment in alternative energy that will bear fruit (T. Boone Pickens, anyone?) and we can start exporting that around the world. Mean time, nothing has really changed for you, me, or the rest of the nation, so let's keep doing what we're doing (with a wary eye on Washington nonetheless).
Like Steve pointed out, they didn't get a filibuster-proof 60 seats in the senate, so things *can't* get that far out of control. More likely we'll just see a few changes here and there as Washington looks for symbolic victories.
Adam
[QUOTE=buffo;68180]Two topics that are sure to cause a fuss: Politics and Religion. Yet here we are, talking politics. Sigh... I hope this doesn't get ugly...
A radical move would be to hurry and get a ABm system up, then tell the Chinese we are not paying them a cent on our debt.
Thats the last I'm saying,
Steve
That would make for interesting news items.Quote:
Originally Posted by mixedgas
-Jonathan
Adam, you're pretty insightful for a laser geek! :D
I'll have to say that I pretty much agree with you on all points!
And yep, he is OUR President-elect, and the next Commander-in-Chief, so our best bet is to give him the chance to settle in to the job and see what he can make of it! 4 years can go by REALLY quickly if a change is due!!
My "stock up now" comment concerning guns wasn't over the fear of having them taken away - I (and probably countless others!) would be taking the Charleton Heston stance if it came down to that, plus, the Supreme Court's decision this year pretty much took care of any drastic changes to the Second Amendment. However, what I could see happening is the industry being taxed to the point that it will be financially pretty difficult for the typical, legal gun owner to afford the costs of ownership and actively participate in sport shooting, once those costs are passed on from the dealers. Time will tell!
For some strange reason the military aspect of "the new era" hits close to home with me (Hmmm...:rolleyes:). My biggest concern is we pull out TOO soon from the hot zones, and leave whoever winds up being the "last ones out" with barely what is needed to finish the job and get out in one piece! Of course, if the military was REALLY able to finish the job, and worry less about "political correctness", we could have been out of the hot zones a long time ago...
OK, I digress, off my soapbox...
Gotta' a 532nm-tuned AOM you want to sell? :D
PS -
I would NEVER talk about religion here.
Doesn't set well with the Baptists....:)
Actually, I do have an AOM that I'd be willing to sell.;) 2 of them, in fact. Now that I've got my PCAOM, I don't need the AOM's anymore. Let's talk after FLEM...
Adam
Cool - definitely interested! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by buffo
James -
Very good rendering of the new President-elect! Ever given any thoughts to creating a Presidential ILD frame collection featuring all the Presidents? THAT would be tres' cool!! :)
That is a great idea that we could all work on together!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuka
First we need to get some good high-contrast picture of the peeps. The one I used for O was actually a posterized color picture that only had a few solid colors in it. I bet you've seen it. It's very easy to see the lines in that before you even start to trace it.
I'd be (really) glad to start a thread about how to use LaserBoy to do hand traced raster images.
James. :)
James, what are you using for tracing? In fact, to the group, what is a good trace alternative? I know there have been topics on this, but I am looking for something on the free route :D (aren't we all?)
I use LaserBoy !!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by absolom7691
It does NOT trace anything. YOU do!
But it gives you a way to do it that is incredibly accurate, to-the-point and once you get it, FAST!
James. :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by James Lehman
Go for it - I'd be willing to bet you would get quite a bit more interest in your work if folks could see a "how to" thread ahead of time!
can anyone do anything with this..
I hate you. :eek::mad::(:o;):DQuote:
Originally Posted by keeperx
Only you would find yet another gap in LaserBoy!
LaserBoy does not currently support the DXF entity SPLINE.
That is something I would LOVE to add!
Thank you for this perfect example of a DXF SPLINE!
IIRC, I would have no problem getting the coefficients from the DXF file, I've just not yet found the math to draw them in 3D space.
James. :)
well whatever you just said... can you fix it.. cuz thats how corel draw exports DXF
That is because of the tool you selected to do your trace. You used a spline curve.Quote:
Originally Posted by keeperx
Try using a polyline.
James. :)