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Archive for February 6th, 2008
TrailTech HID Lights
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TrailTech is a company that makes a variety of products for off-road racing. The flagship lighting product is their line of HID (High Intensity Discharge) lights. HID lights are miniature versions of the metal-halide light that is in common use lighting sports stadiums, race tracks and other venues. It is a high efficiency arc light […]
Posted by neonjohn on February 6th, 2008 under Flashahaulism | Comment now »
The Big Gun
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At various points in my life, I’ve had a second occupation as a professional photographer. Mostly mundane stuff like product and loss (insurance) photography but both paid well and most importantly for a gadget dude like me, allowed me to accumulate a decent quantity of pro equipment. Some of it is somewhat old but that […]
Posted by neonjohn on February 6th, 2008 under Photography | Comment now »
Civil War on the Periodic Table
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This is serious. They’re screwing with the periodic table again and I’m pissed… Background… By the age of 10 I’d memorized the periodic table in the back of Dad’s post-WWII college chemistry textbook. I could recite elemental statistics like dumber kids recited baseball stats. I’ve always loved that table. So elegant. So organized. So Nerdy. […]
Posted by neonjohn on February 6th, 2008 under Funny, Science | 2 Comments »