Backside attack!

Jun 11, 2007 23:35

So I got rear ended on Saturday. This is the second time it's happened, and the circumstances are eerily similar. I pull up to a line of cars at a red light, I stop my own car and wait a few seconds, ten I hear a screech of tires, a boom and feel a slight thud. Also I know two isn't a good enough sample size to make any real judgements, but I ( Read more... )

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theevilearl June 12 2007, 04:10:33 UTC
Women drivers!!

Um, I mean...

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c_hog June 12 2007, 12:37:54 UTC
It would be hilarious if you called her to check up on it everyday, and annoying, but mostly hilarious.

I know you are big on the fluorescent bulbs and all, but there's new evidence this type of lighting causes headaches (In my experience, its been a headache trigger) and will be terrible for people with Irlen Syndrome. It would be nice is someone was actively looking into making a fluorescent light which emits a more appropriate spectra of wavelengths.

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colonel_wuppass June 14 2007, 01:17:40 UTC
They've got bulbs that emit different spectrums. Ones that are soft white, or yellowish even. The problem still is that there is a lot of flipping on and off going on still. But the weird thing is most all dimmable incandescants work by flipping on and off very rapidly. Now maybe the filaments hold their glow a bit, but there must be some sort of very fast flickering there, and yet no one complains about it. Also, the mose aggregious offenders are the flourescent tubs which just bear straight down on people. Putting a diffuser (like say a lampshade) over the bulb greatly reducers the flicker and thus the problems. Lastly, never compact flourescents seem to have far less flicker, at least as far as I can tell. The easy test is the put your hand between the bulb and your face and wave it back and forth, if you see distinct images of your hand (like you would with a strobe light) then the bulb has a flicker, if you just see a mush then it's normal. Try it with an incandescent, an old flourescent tube and a new compact ( ... )

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anonymous June 13 2007, 13:46:58 UTC
ahh the backside attack, I remember it well...

I really like flourescent light bulbs, I don't understand most (I can see the head aches thing) people's resistance. Almost all schools and offices have flourescent lights, so it doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

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colonel_wuppass June 14 2007, 01:26:36 UTC
That's what I'm talking about! http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1432763

The only real problem with compact flourescents is the mercury in them, but if they generate power with coal in your area you will reduce more mercury by using them then they contain (http://howtosaveenergy.blogspot.com/2007/05/cfl-mercury-myths.html). The biggest problem is that people have ideas about flourescents which were created by old crappy bulbs, that's the whole reason behind my quest to get people to install just one. Hopefully they'll discover that their fears were unfounded, and then replace their other bulbs too. That's the idea at least.

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anonymous June 14 2007, 06:25:26 UTC
i got a backside attack also, but it was really trivial. it was stop and go traffic on a highway and the guy behind me fell asleep... =/ nothing happened though...

-UnityXX

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colonel_wuppass June 14 2007, 12:52:13 UTC
Pang returns! Hope I see you in St. Louis.

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