Mess with their heads dept....

[Don Lancaster]

Mess with their heads department: Get yourself some carrot
sticks. Find a mark who is WEARING GLASSES and near a
CRT TYPE computer monitor. Tell the mark that the triboelectric
energy generated while chewing a carrot is enough to generate
significant electrical interference on any nearby computer
monitor.

The mark will try this, and, sure enough, they will see a glitch on
the display every time they chomp on the carrot. They will then,
of course, make complete fools out of themselves when they try
to show this to someone WITHOUT glasses or on a LCD display.

More at http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu05.asp and
http://www.tinaja.com/glib/marcia.pdf

--
Many thanks,

Don Lancaster
Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552
voice: (928)428-4073 email: don@tinaja.com

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:16:34 -0800, Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com>
wrote:

Mess with their heads department: Get yourself some carrot
sticks. Find a mark who is WEARING GLASSES and near a
CRT TYPE computer monitor. Tell the mark that the triboelectric
energy generated while chewing a carrot is enough to generate
significant electrical interference on any nearby computer
monitor.

The mark will try this, and, sure enough, they will see a glitch on
the display every time they chomp on the carrot. They will then,
of course, make complete fools out of themselves when they try
to show this to someone WITHOUT glasses or on a LCD display.

Set an analog oscilloscope sweeping at maybe 50 ms/cm with no vertical
signal. Stand maybe 6-10 feet away, look at it, and hit yourself on
the top of the head. You'll see a graph of the impulse response of
your eyeball's servo system.

John

 

[keith]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:16:34 -0800, Don Lancaster wrote:

Mess with their heads department: Get yourself some carrot
sticks. Find a mark who is WEARING GLASSES and near a
CRT TYPE computer monitor. Tell the mark that the triboelectric
energy generated while chewing a carrot is enough to generate
significant electrical interference on any nearby computer
monitor.

The mark will try this, and, sure enough, they will see a glitch on
the display every time they chomp on the carrot. They will then,
of course, make complete fools out of themselves when they try
to show this to someone WITHOUT glasses or on a LCD display.

I don't wear glasses and I see the image on a CRT jump when I crunch
something hard. I first noticed it in the mid '80s while teaching a
programming class (room full of monitors) while munching on some Fritos.
LCD? nah! I'm not biting. ;-)

--
Keith

 

[John Doe]

keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

....

I don't wear glasses and I see the image on a CRT jump when I
crunch something hard. I first noticed it in the mid '80s while
teaching a programming class (room full of monitors) while munching
on some Fritos.

Try an electric toothbrush.

 

[keith]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:13:49 +0000, John Doe wrote:

keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

...

I don't wear glasses and I see the image on a CRT jump when I
crunch something hard. I first noticed it in the mid '80s while
teaching a programming class (room full of monitors) while munching
on some Fritos.

Try an electric toothbrush.

While munching on Fritos? Eeww.

--
Keith

 

[John Doe]

keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:13:49 +0000, John Doe wrote:
keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

...

I don't wear glasses and I see the image on a CRT jump when I
crunch something hard. I first noticed it in the mid '80s while
teaching a programming class (room full of monitors) while
munching on some Fritos.

Try an electric toothbrush.

While munching on Fritos? Eeww.

An electric toothbrush produces an amplified effect of what you are
talking about. But you have to relax, and it probably helps to have
real teeth.

 

[keith]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:28:42 +0000, Tom Del Rosso wrote:

"keith" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message
newsan.2005.01.29.20.50.53.970561@att.bizzzz...
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:16:34 -0800, Don Lancaster wrote:

I don't wear glasses and I see the image on a CRT jump when I crunch
something hard. I first noticed it in the mid '80s while teaching a
programming class (room full of monitors) while munching on some Fritos.
LCD? nah! I'm not biting. ;-)

Of course you're right. This is just due to the vibration of the head,
which makes every image vibrate whether you have glasses or not. The eye
and brain correct for the movement, but can't do the correction on a
flickering image. So blowing raspberries at your computer makes it wavy (as
well as wet) but doesn't affect the surroundings (other than getting it
wet).

LOLPIMP, without getting it wet, of course. ;-)

--

Keith

 

[keith]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:53:16 +0000, John Doe wrote:

keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:13:49 +0000, John Doe wrote:
keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

...

I don't wear glasses and I see the image on a CRT jump when I
crunch something hard. I first noticed it in the mid '80s while
teaching a programming class (room full of monitors) while
munching on some Fritos.

Try an electric toothbrush.

While munching on Fritos? Eeww.

An electric toothbrush produces an amplified effect of what you are
talking about. But you have to relax, and it probably helps to have
real teeth.

Oh, I have a full set of real teeth, perhaps because I don't use an
electric toothbrush while munching on Fritos. ;-)

--
Keith

 

[Guy Macon]

John Larkin wrote:

Set an analog oscilloscope sweeping at maybe 50 ms/cm with no vertical
signal. Stand maybe 6-10 feet away, look at it, and hit yourself on
the top of the head. You'll see a graph of the impulse response of
your eyeball's servo system.

And this, my friends is why I set my filters to still display
John's posts, even in threads that I have killfiled.

Would that be a livefile?

 

[John Larkin]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:43:21 +0000, Guy Macon
<_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

Set an analog oscilloscope sweeping at maybe 50 ms/cm with no vertical
signal. Stand maybe 6-10 feet away, look at it, and hit yourself on
the top of the head. You'll see a graph of the impulse response of
your eyeball's servo system.

And this, my friends is why I set my filters to still display
John's posts, even in threads that I have killfiled.

Would that be a livefile?

Do you think that maybe I've hit myself on the head too many times?
Now I use mostly digital scopes with LCD screens, so the brain damage
should level off.

John

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:29:46 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

Set an analog oscilloscope sweeping at maybe 50 ms/cm with no vertical
signal. Stand maybe 6-10 feet away, look at it, and hit yourself on
the top of the head. You'll see a graph of the impulse response of
your eyeball's servo system.

I first observed this effect in the family car, at about dusk. Everything
is dim and grey, except the dashboard lights. Well, the dashboard lights
were bouncing around (with the bumps in the road) _different_ from the
rest of the dashboard! Clearly, retina cells (rods and cones) respond
faster to more light, or something. That's how they do that phony 3D, by
putting a grey filter over one eye, and slowly moving stuff sideways.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Chaos Master]

In sci.electronics.design, keith wrote:

I don't wear glasses and I see the image on a CRT jump when I crunch
something hard. I first noticed it in the mid '80s while teaching a
programming class (room full of monitors) while munching on some Fritos.
LCD? nah! I'm not biting. ;-)

For me, doesn't matter if I am wearing my glasses, or not.
Since I don't have LCD monitor/TV here at home, I can't check if this
effect happens with them.

[]s
--
Chaos MasterŽ, posting from Canoas, Brazil - 29.55° S / 51.11° W / GMT-
2h / 15m

"He [Babya] is like the Energizer Bunny of hopeless newsgroup
posting....or should that be Energizer bBunny"
- "ceed" on alt.comp.freeware, 24/1/2005

(to some groups: Yes, I use Windows and MS Office. So what?)

 

[Andreas Hadler]

Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> wrote:

Mess with their heads department: Get yourself some carrot
sticks. Find a mark who is WEARING GLASSES and near a
CRT TYPE computer monitor. Tell the mark that the triboelectric
energy generated while chewing a carrot is enough to generate
significant electrical interference on any nearby computer
monitor.

Ever looked at a CRT when wearing glasses and using an electric
toothbrush? Oh man, the world look really shaky...

Andreas
--
You'll learn more between the legs of a good woman than at any
university or college

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:29:46 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:16:34 -0800, Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com
wrote:


Mess with their heads department: Get yourself some carrot
sticks. Find a mark who is WEARING GLASSES and near a
CRT TYPE computer monitor. Tell the mark that the triboelectric
energy generated while chewing a carrot is enough to generate
significant electrical interference on any nearby computer
monitor.

The mark will try this, and, sure enough, they will see a glitch on
the display every time they chomp on the carrot. They will then,
of course, make complete fools out of themselves when they try
to show this to someone WITHOUT glasses or on a LCD display.


Set an analog oscilloscope sweeping at maybe 50 ms/cm with no vertical
signal. Stand maybe 6-10 feet away, look at it, and hit yourself on
the top of the head. You'll see a graph of the impulse response of
your eyeball's servo system.

Or say, "R-r-r-r-ruffles have r-r-r-ridges". The "harder" you roll the

'r's, the more pronounced the effect. It's way weird doing this while
observing the neighbor's TV down the block through their picture window.
The picture can actually leave the TV screen! And you can vary the
frequency of your rolled 'r's, and see the beat frequency.

And glasses are irrelevant, and it can work with LCDs, depending on how
it's scanned.

Cheers!
Rich