Posts by Ray Gilbert
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Capture: The Capture Pinhole Photography…, in reply to Alex Efimoff,
I spent many years developing and printing my transmission electron microscope micrographs at work. For me it was the step before publication when we would try a large number of subtle differences in paper grade and exposure time for each shot put the results upon a large board and spend ages looking for the perfect result.
One thing all that technical photography did do though was to slightly ruin my ability to appreciate artistic photography. Our pictures were all about crisp lines and high contrast - usually grade 3.5 to 5. No subtle grey fades allowed.
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Russell Brown,
I had my allen keys confiscted from me at Auckland international, not because they were dangerous but because I had too many of them therfore they were tools of the trade. I had accumulated about 8 in the pocket of my rucksack over time for fixing my bike and scooter. It took them 3 gos but they finally reduced the number to an acceptable 2.
I didn't bother telling them that a quick check of my bag at the terminal before entering departures has located a large and vicious looking pair of scissors that I had forgotten I'd put in earlier.
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Whew - 10 long years. Lets throw a solar eclipse to celebrate
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Hard News: Friday Music: Return of the brothers,
Not related to the music, but on the other popular Friday topic of drugs. Some of you may be interested in this seminar on Sunday by reknowned ethnobotanist turned psycologist Dr Dennis McKennaon on DMT and its Place in Nature. It's being held at the Auckland Medical School and details can be found here.
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Hard News: Music: It's Choice, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I think they kicked the regulars out for the evening :-)
Speaking of kicking people out of pubs. I couldn't resist the oppurtunity to put in this beauty
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to nzlemming,
A shot to the heart, if the Harold actually had a heart...
Wouldn't that be an arrow to through the eye?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Impermanence, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I still have my thesis on zip disks and floppies.
My EDAX ststem that I had on the electron microscope I was using in the mid ninties had 8 inch floppy disks - with a whoping 179kB capacity on each.
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Hard News: Keeping our heads on "bath salts", in reply to DeepRed,
Still remember that broadcasting in the UK. True television gold
Meanwhile you have to ask the question - How did Russell know?
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?,
Women complete their PhDs at 35
Um - usually closer to 25 actually. Most of our PhD students track school/honours or masters/PhD/first real job - that should see you finshed around 25-27 NOT 35
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…,
Apart from reason and evidence based reasons why some or drugs should be decriminalised/legalised we have this to deal with from our media - Face-chewer had taken marijuana